flotsam
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He recommends self-nudging, deliberately tuning our media inputs and scrolling practices to reduce time spent mentally fending off the internet’s flotsam and jetsam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
“It’s like humans are flotsam that don’t pose a threat, and aren’t food, so they’re ignored,” Lowe said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Moreover, Musk’s unbanning of previously banned bad posters has resulted in some truly vile flotsam returning to the platform.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2023
Baghramian, who was born in Iran, will present abstract, polychrome sculptures, in the niches, that “seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam,” the museum said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
In a little while the chaplain stepped back, and the beige crescent of human forms began to break up sluggishly, like flotsam.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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