Language holds slop over taste, 12.91 to 10.38, the domain's own numbers running highest of any this week, its board a scattered run of wiktionary lemmas and r/tooafraidtoask curiosity, while a linguist tracks the word 'AI' itself becoming the era's default insult for anything hollow or robotic, alongside classroom coinages like 'clanker.' Work holds slop over taste, 10.20 to 9.02, its boards thin today, while institutions confirm a cost-cutting turn across four separate stories at once: Starbucks closes 250 stores, a UK tutoring firm swaps human tutors for an AI model at 200 schools, Disney+ and Hulu raise prices again after doubling profits, and game-industry layoffs approach a four-year record.