- diktats, a harsh punishment unilaterally imposed
- griot, West African storyteller
- amanuensis, transcriptionist
- Anholt cultu
- violent entertainment of context collapse
- fissiparous, an organism is one that produces new individuals by fission/splitting
- wegan diet, a vegan diet modified to include only wild-harvested meats
- axis of assholes
- slow-rolled
- TTP, techniques, tactics and procedures
- Moonlight Maze, Russian cyberattack on DoD in 1990s
- semiotarchy, tyranny of signs
- kenopsia, eerie feeling when you are the only one in a building
- reality resetters
- Weltschmerz, world pain
- sprooks, spies and crooks
- keening, public lamentation for the dead
- LARPing, live action role playing
- hustlers masquerading as philosophers
- an alien in a trench coat of normalcy
- Cultural defense warrior
- Uncle Sid, the Buddha
- Groypers, Gen Z Christian fundamentalist white nationalists
- Stultus est sicut stultus facit, stupid is as stupid does
- wu de, martial virtue
- bathos, an anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial
- the freaky rich and their courtiers
- shipaggedon
- new cangaço, bandit in Brazil
- micromort, one-in-a-million chance of death
- Bric-à-brac
- the straw that stirred the drink
- learn to man the fry cooker
- Herrenvolk, “master race”
- the firehose of falsehood
- bourse, stock exchange
- hyperfuturist
- beinhaus, bone house, bird house of a human skull
- nocebo, something making you ill because you expectmit to
- oikeiôsis, something belonging to oneself
- phantom urban topology
- antimetabole vs. chiasmus
- Coup Clutz Clan
- tsujigiri, crossroads killing
- fakokta, fucked up in Yiddish
- criminally ignorant
- surplus to requirements
- symbrachydactyly, limb difference
- reshook, past tense of reshake
- Jantelagen, energy to ignore the fame of a famous person
- recreational fear
- solfeggio frequencies
- Münchhausen Trilemma, more proof: circular, regressive, or dogmatic
- boojahideen or booj
- tribalism trap
- poisonous creature comforts
- the intimacy of scrutiny
- gemba, closest to the decision makes the decision, Toyota
- mouneh, Lebanese pickle
- deficit of wonder
- 臭いものに蓋 (kusai-mono-ni-futa). Its literal meaning is “to cover what stinks”. Its figurative meaning is to look the other way or hush up a problem
- semantic satiation, using a word to the point it loses its meaning
- 尻拭い (shiri-nugui). The literal meaning is “ass-wiping”, but the figurative meaning is to clean up somebody’s else mess
- 自業自得 (jigou-jitoku): Reap what you sow
- post-truth freak flags
- dazibaos, a wall mounted newspaper, a form of protest
- quacksalvery
- the dark abyss of stochasticity
- Kaupapa, (Māori, or te reo), kaupapa means principles and ideas which act as a base or foundation for action. A kaupapa is a set of values, principles and plans which people have agreed on as a foundation for their actions
- xenoarchaeologist, someone who studies alien civilizations
- homoiconic, same structures for data and code
- Technologiefolgekostenabschätzung, literally technology follow-up cost assessment
- misophonics, extreme aversion to certain noises
- Callipygian, having shapely or beautiful buttocks
- yauh peng, yauh leng, both inexpensive and beautiful
- isegoria, it’s all just opinions, all speech is equal
- parrhesia, candid speech that may require an apology
- 報復性熬夜, revenge bedtime procrastination or not going to bed to reclaim free time
- nerdquarium
- dalits, broken people
- acedia, no longer caring about caring
- adult pacifer
- weenie wagger
- crèche question
- kulturkampf
- kalos kai agathos
- sluggish, sclerotic and stupid
- topoi, commonplace book of classical rhetoric
- productive uncertainty
- rusted chrome of yestermorrow
- rock of righteousness
- Shitness protection program
- apophatic, God is known be what She is not
- ceteris paribus, other things being equal
- eco-Taliban
- jouhatsu, people who disappear and continue to conceal their whereabouts for years, means evaporation
- emblematic high priests of critical uncertainty
- Die Entzauberung der Welt, “the unmagicking of the world.”
- revanchism, the political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country, often following a war or social movement
- reply guys
- mwenkanonkan, indigenous feminism of Uganda that predates Western feminism
- akrasia, weakness of will
- cobots, collaborative robots
- Globaloney
- woketopians
- necrophoric, an animal that carries the dead of its own kind
- chinthe, a mythological lion-like creature that frequently guards Buddhist temples
- a series of linked interiors
- fictive kin
- irony poisoning
- shoaling, rising water tables
- adjustor of destinies
- intermittently connected suburbs of the self
- laminar agent
- vampiric complexion
- Cronenberg character
- humeur noire
- prettier and tittier
- chronic malcontent
- exponentialize the terrible
- derecho, a line of severe thunderstorms that produce high winds, from Spanish “straight”
- double dissidents
- coprolites, fossilized crap
- hibakusha, nuclear bomb survivors
- coronagrifting
- wakaresaseya, relationship ender, Japan
- naught but a lunatic line
- cri de coeur
- pathocracies
- annus terribilis
- petri d
- corporate claptrap
- apophenia, connecting unrelated phenomenon
- legend tripping
- Aloha Wanderwell
- clown fiend
- slow your tarred heart
- untact, “un” and “contact”
- nuguna, meaning “anyone”
- honjok, individualist loners, literally alone tribe
- deathfluencers
- sanitary Spartacans
- three ring shit show of your life
- cyberverse
- motte-and-bailey fallacy
- pareidolia
- pigeonhole principle
- Books are willing accomplices in the crime of thinking.
- Please scream inside your heart.
- man mafia, patriarchy
- yahrzeit, anniversary of someone’s death
- contain the contagion
- McJunkins
- barycenter, gravitational center
- stereoscopic vision
- jungle plums, false mastic
- cargo cult public health
- mlecchita vikalpa, cryptography
- gamblesphere
- persecuting society, caused by scarcity
- choremania
- þetta reddast, everything will work out
- rype, wild bird
- blatherskite
- quiescent mode
- orthopedic fracture machines, trampolines
- hamsterkauf, hoarding
- uitwaaien, outblowing, spending time in the wind
- Zuihitsu, at will and pen
- memory artist
- sapere aude, dare to know
- kakorrhaphiophobia, fear of failure
- ungeklärt, undefined
- mortichnia, or “death march”, the footprints of a dying animal
- digging graves with artistic precision
- aleatory, determined by chance
- minstrel show of hate
- morituri te salutant, those that are about to die salute you
- clear the froth
- coterminous, bordering
- invidious, tending to rouse ill-will
- stichomythia, alternating character in poem
- hysteresis, negative effects into the future in economics
- ave atque vale, hail and goodbye
- bohemian downsides
- unchecked dread
- Kodak fiend, taking pictures of unsuspecting people
- paracrine effect
- combed hair before battle
- pitiless crowbar of events
- gulag government
- fluxion
- socnets
- nosocomial, hospital-acquired
- saeculum, expected lifetime or replacement cycle for a generation
- vitaparcours
- publicity requirement
- praying atheist
- mutualism
- bezoars
- dipterocarp
- folivores, leaf eaters
- wild monkey rumpus
- standing reserve, Heidegger
- Gestell, framework
- hand-washing for the infodemic
- sologamy, single women who essentially marry themselves
- bizarre digital fever dream
- covidiots
- dodecahedron
- simulacra, the copy without an original
- chingar, to fuck
- puppet people
- our messianic libido.
- ipsissima vox,the very voice
- Virilio’s Information Bomb
- is not even wrong, so bad it really can’t even be discussed coherently
- romanticizing pathology
- iconics of the hegemon
- the massive ocean inside of me makes the fish swim
- petrichor, the smell after it rains
- past light cone, a clean figure in spacetime that encloses all the places and times where something happened whose consequences we might see
- sucking on lozenges
- Aphantasia is a condition where one does not possess a functioning mind’s eye and cannot voluntarily visualize imagery
- thinkmeat
- taste adjacent
- gnawing on the remnants of dreams
- imaginary vortex
- consumer metaphysics
- thin newness
- gomi, Japanese for garbage
- new tech angel hair
- waterflesh
- bum guns
- a matter of personal microculture
- coronapocalypse
- suppuration
- the pitiless crowbar of events
- skeuomorph, derivative that keeps non-functional design cues from original
- la puta vida, this bitch of a life
- baboso, drooling idiot
- Drano enema
- a supernova of stupidity
- overcooked and underdone
- zaftig, plump
- aspeta, wait
- mise-en-place
- a man of esoteric skills and appetites
- a clean, three ingredient high
- cryptids, an animal that has been claimed to exist but is not proven to exist
- tant pis, so much worse
- liminal space, the time between what was and what will be.
- necrocapitalism
- pseudo‑event
- lagniappe
- virtual trophy
- sick room architectures
- garbage guru
- Dowager Duchess
- ever-softening society
- the interfering aunt
- parlor general
- tongue rot
- trash trove
- link cowboys
- TEOTWAWKI, or The End of the World as We Know It
- exogenous shock
- laggardiste
- panem et circenses
- slaves of praise
- akrasia, a lack of self-control or the state of acting against one’s better judgment
- ikigai, “reason for being,” or it’s the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs
- neltiliztli, rootedness
- huehuetlatolli, elder’s discourse
- YORP effect
- black chemistries awaiting catalysis
- unwitting recipients of dead news from above
- 40 million fascists and a mule
- Io me ne frego, I don’t care
- mass-infantilism
- barroom windbags
- città di merda, city of shit
- ragazzo delle borgate, guy from the suburbs
- romafaschifo, Rome sucks
- maglia nera, black Jersey or last place
- ghost lineage
- Something in the milk ain’t clean…
- paranoia into policy
- cupiditas oculorum, lust of the eyes
- fecal dust
- psychoentirety rejection
- cumulative causation
- censorship through noise
- gongoozler
- Lithopanspermia, the transfer of organisms in rocks from one planet to another either through interplanetary or interstellar space
- memory-wired
- propaganda DJ
- a loser’s catalog
- interoceptive
- ora et labora, prayer and work
- Un travail de bénédictin—literally, a Benedictine labor—is a French expression for the sort of project someone can only accomplish over a long time through patient, modest, steady effort.
- extispicy, entrail reading
- proletarii – that is, people whose duty to the state was to ‘bear children’ as they did not have enough property to be classified as assidui, ‘the settled’ or ‘the landowning’
- Kinkshaming
- Purity Police, grudgewankers
- hemicrania, a pain affecting half the head
- Great Weirding,
- Permaweird
- Atira asteroids, within Earth’s orbit
- papier-mâché Mephistopheles
- Holdout creditor problem
- Everything becomes vintage
- Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
- a trash fire that will inherit the earth
- Beruria, clarity, woman in Talmud
- the rocks of psychosis
- technical debt
- Coase theorem
- residual benefactor, the person who gets what’s left after bankruptcy
- anxiegenic paradoxes, anxiety creating
- designed by clowns
- peeling for the pentimento
- confederacy of catastrophe
- bumper cars of mismatched words
- coloratura, florid ornamental singing passages
- living in the doom
- the narcissism of small differences
- wild is the way
- warring information tribes
- haruspex, ancient Roman official who reads the entrails of animals for omens
- nalgas, buttocks
- Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres, “Tell me who you hang out with and I’ll tell you who you are.”
- smooth-skinned erection machine
- intellectual panoply
- gender-criticals
- Heslington brain
- Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt
- homophily
- mystics of the stream
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