Day 1,672: conjugal, crucible, catapult, a diet of

Their long conjugal association is a model for many younger married couples.

As well as being fun, social media are the crucible of online debate and a catapult for political campaigns.

Inspired by TikTok, apps like Facebook increasingly serve a diet of clips selected by artificial intelligence according to a user’s viewing behaviour, not their social connections.

The end of the social network

Artwork of the day 
Married Life
Roger de La Fresnaye
Date: 1913; France
Style: Cubism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas

Word of the day 
conjugal: pertaining to marriage relationships; connubial 
crucible: a container in which metals or other substances can be heated to very high temperatures
catapult: a device that can throw objects at a high speed:
a diet of: a particular type of thing that you experience or do regularly, or a limited range of activities:

Quote of the day
“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters