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with whom you are listening to this is sensitive to swears.

Anyway, every year the American Dialect Society meets and does Dialect Society stuff?

They probably have a banquet lunch and then they put their heads together and they brainstorm and they pick a word of the year.

Sometimes it's a few words, one time dumpster fire one,ction, COVID in 2020.

And for the year that just passed,

the American Dialect Society chose a word

that if you are listening to this on radio we are going to have to

partially bleep.

An shitification. The term was coined in a 2022 blog post by my guest, Corey Doctorow.

He defined it pretty succinctly.

Here's how platforms die.

First, they're good to their users.

Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.

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