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The past five years alone have seen the emergence of “bed rotting” (something Feedback would like to do more of), “doomscrolling” (something Feedback does rather too much of) and “sanewashing” (something that is approximately the opposite of what we do here).
It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless New Scientist 2025
mikepope commented on the word sanewashing
"sanewashing" has of course been in the news a fair bit recently :( It has its own Wikipedia page, which suggests an origin in 2007, with a specifically political usage recorded in 2020. Dave Wilton has a post about it dated 1 Oct 24.
December 8, 2024