We're coming into the final stretch of 2025. And I thought I'd share some new words that I have learned this year. Now they may not be new you all young, hip, jive crazy cool cats, but they're new to me, and if they're new to you as well, then you'll learn them in much the same way that I did:

Against my will.

Clanker (noun)

Clanker is a derogatory term for robots and AI technology.

We may already have the word of the year, if not the decade: clanker. Originating from the Star Wars universe, it has become a catch-all term used to refer to robots and AI. Any technology can be referred to as a clanker.
—Catherine Prasifka, Irish Independent, 14 Aug. 2025

https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/clanker

Cogsucker (noun)

A cogsucker is someone a little too obsessed with LLMs, chatbots, and AI companions. Whether they're using ChatGPT as a therapist, falling in love with Grok, or treating Replika like a best friend, these are examples that you can find populating the /r/cogsuckers subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/cogsuckers/

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