Day 2,382: catamaran, extant, SLOP, PARASOCIAL, rage bait, contender

Artwork of the day 
Title:
A Catamaran, or an Old Maid's Nursery
Artist:
Thomas_Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Date:
[March 1, 1803], reissued March 1, 1811
Medium:
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in. (32.1 × 25 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Object Number:
59.533.1786
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

Word of the day 
catamaran: a sailing boat that has two parallel hulls (= floating parts) held together by a singledeck (= flat surface)
extant: used to refer to something very old that is still existing:
SLOP: content on the internet that is of very lowquality, especially when it is created by artificial intelligence:
PARASOCIAL: involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence:
rage bait: information, images, videos, etc. that are put on the internet to deliberately make people angry and to encourage them to reply online:
contender: someone who competes with other peopleto try to win something:

Quote of the day
“As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.”
― Gary Paulsen, Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats