2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing AI fears, scientists slashed, anti-vaccination on the rise — it’s like someone took Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and asked a large-language model to update the lyrics. I mean, the Economist’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop.” As in, the content slop, much of it A...

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