The dead man says to the slaughter: "Who made that hole in you?"

Several media outlets and institutions choose their word of the year, and there's rarely agreement, but in a world where there are three dozen "best" panettone simultaneously, that shouldn't surprise us. A cross-section of the designated words reveals the reverential fear that so-called new technologies still inspire. Merriam-Webster's dictionary has chosen slopea term that defines low-quality digital content generated by AI. Its rival Collins, on the other hand, opts for vibe codingwhich is programming with artificial intelligence using a natural language built on the basis of vibrations. Oxford University Press believes that the word that encapsulates 2025 is rage baitThat is to say, the kind of cliques that don't grab our attention with a riddle (usually poorly resolved internally), but with a formulation that compels us to furiously comment on a deliberately scandalous proposition. Defending the pineapple on pizza, as they say. The Cambridge Dictionary chooses the unsettling parasocial, which refers to one-sided virtual connections, which can be with celebrities, influencers Or even chatbots. In other words, to create a whole scenario. Good morning to see Herby Spike Jonze.

The WorldFor its part, it doesn't choose a word but rather the enemy of the year. This year it has chosen the generation gap, because of which today's youth will live worse than their parents. At least they haven't done what they did two years ago, when they chose polarization. Yes, yes, The World denouncing the polarization, without any shame, and attributing it to Sánchez in a text that didn't mention Vox or its hate speech. Nor themselves, of course, who had been poisoning the waters of public debate for the previous 364 days with their trench warfare, blunderbuss-like journalism.