Recruitment scams are becoming more plausible thanks to AI 🚩

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WORD WATCH: “booktoker”
= someone who discusses /
Promotes books on TikTok

If you want to say beefy/ripped in Spanish, you can use “mazado”

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WORD WATCH: “sine die”

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WORD WATCH: “the everything account”

WORD WATCH: “uncummed”

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“Daoist adepts have been exploring various methods to avoid ejaculation *for more than two thousand years*.”

I’d have put the *prepositional phrase* first to avoid confusion….

WORD WATCH: ébauche = prelim draft

“styles of concern”

SPR = Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The Oil Shock Is About To Hit America YouTube video by Andrei Jikh

WORD WATCH: “Dated Brent” is a physical, prompt-delivery benchmark for North Sea crude oil, representing the market value of cargoes with specific loading dates, typically 10–30 days ahead.

WORD WATCH: Liquor Cabinet

I’m surprised that Treasury comes before Defense. And that Agriculture comes before Commerce.

Does English have a new plural suffix? YouTube video by human1011

Emergence of new pronominal plural suffix in English

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420 (cannabis culture) - Wikipedia

I was wondering in what countries besides the US is “420” recognized as slang for cannabis. Turns out quite a few !

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India has splurged billions on metro trains. But where are the commuters? Without better last-mile connectivity and affordable fares, metro use is unlikely to improve quickly, say experts.

>Last-mile connectivity refers to the final leg of transportation, logistics, or telecommunications networks that connects a main hub to the end-user or destination. It is critical for ensuring service accessibility, speed, and efficiency, often serving as the most complex and costly part...

How a fake Russian story became a real problem for Estonia Inside the People’s Republic that wasn’t.

>> Raik recalls how, in the aftermath of the annexation, journalists descended on the city with a now-familiar question: “Is Narva next?”
“I had to tell them we had no little green men here,” she said, referring to the troops without insignia sent by Moscow to foment unrest in Ukraine.

‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

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Hack The Box First Ever Blue Team CTF 2025 Is Here! YouTube video by InfoSec Pat

HTB =
Hack the box
CTF =
Capture the Flag

>> Prove your cybersecurity skills on the official Hack The Box Capture The Flag (CTF) Platform! Play solo or as a team. Jeopardy-style challenges to pwn ...

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🚗 BYD : The biggest SCAM of the car industry ? YouTube video by Statrys

PHEV: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

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The Zipf Mystery YouTube video by Vsauce

>> It is usually found that the most common word occurs approximately twice as often as the next common one, three times as often as the third most common, and so on.

WORD WATCH: “chopped”

709 vials of dangerous viruses vanished from a high-security Brazilian lab 709 vials of viruses including Eastern equine encephalitis vanished from a BSL-3 lab in Brazil during a routine count.

Arboviruses = viruses transmitted by mosquitoes & ticks

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“Nerd Prom” = WH Correspondents Dinner