A new acronym came into view in your ‘umble scribe’s social media timeline last month: AI;DR, as shown below.
![Post reads over on threads someone just use [sic] ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick](http://xislblogs.xtreamlab.net/slwoods/wp-content/uploads//sites/23/2026/02/ai-dr.png)
This is a modification of the already extant acronym TL;DR (too long; don’t read) to embrace the recent development of artificial intelligence and shows the dynamism that language has always had, adapting quickly to new ideas, concepts and items.
And long may it continue. 😀
The image below courtesy of the Washington Post (proprietor one Trump-supporting, union-bashing billionaire rejoicing in the name of Jeffrey Preston Bezos. Ed.) came into your ‘umble scribe’s social media timeline this morning.
There have always been those who profit from wars, from spivs operating on the black market (posts passim) to arms manufacturers.
Wars always entail casualties, one of the first being reputed to be the truth.
The Washington Post’s attitude illustrated in the opinion piece’s title reminds your correspondent of the quotation attributed to the then British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin during a tough spell in the 1930s:
What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
No further comment is necessary, save perhaps one sentence from my political science lecturer, the late Elfed Roberts, in a lecture on war over five decades ago: “War is the destruction of the fittest“.