- disaster voyeurism
- Stakhanovites, model workers who produced higher than expectations
- university, a synthesis of two words: “unity” and “diversity.”
- collimination, adjusting the line of sight of a telescope
- muhaha, evil laugh
- Isekai, an anime genre of going to another world and having adventures
- Zugzwang, worse position than if opponent’s turn to play
- (R)azi Party, portmanteau of (R) Republican and Nazi Party
- mad-eyed, staring at the undreamt thing
- cronyism and connections
- heart heat, emotional turmoil
- grief’s lonely algorithm
- manslipping — about the tendency of men to let their masks fall below their noses
- invincible ignorance
- A far-right propaganda machine built atop a gaslight factory
- enormous faff
- the American nightmare of overpromise and underdelivery
- slaved and saved for nothing
- transmedia information war propping up a popularity contest for strongmen
- Pandejos
- Tempus Fugit, time flies.—Virgil
- hover to discover
- a self-motivated lickspittle
- head-canon, the canon in your head that isn’t canon
- Hungerstein, hunger stone
- Gangster capitalism, unnecessary adjective?
- gazing into the void of self-creation
- runch, running lunch
- future dreamscape
- byzantine shitshow
- mazuma, money
- reflexivity, the feedback loop by which expectations or desires can shape reality
- friya, free and beloved
- niksen, the art of doing nothing
- ground truth, might have origins in maps
- gray bar motel, jail
- subs or dubs, subtitles or …
- economical with the actualité
- data void
- herd of independent minds
- inscape plan, turning inward to find salvation
- global weirdness
- endless melting-snowflake background
- agnotology, the academic study of ignorance
- The Slenderman of cocktails
- vetocracies, when too many actors have veto rights
- Jimoto, japanese for “local area”
- pernicious convergence, all roads lead to Rome
- paroxysms of junkie violence
- crumb de la crumb
- symbiosis, from the Greek for “together” and “living.”
- screechy and preachy
- content cop providing free moderation labor
- , αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs), one who perceives
- reality testing
- Transformation through Education program
- howling cognitive vacuum
- Dīwān, “record,” “compendium,” “collected works
- America’s spiritual sewers
- mise en abyme, a formal technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence
- hegemonic anxiety, the fear of losing global dominance.
- pain lost in translation
- petro-masculinity
- wishful worries
- ossan, rude Japanese word for middle-aged dudes
- O.H. Krill, original hostage, alien’s name, part of UFO conspiracy lore
- nooshijoon, Farsi, may it nourish your soul
- full of LinkedIn hustle-goblins
- quantum foam
- sewer stories, where truth and false doesn’t apply
- wokescolds
- hysteresis effect, an event that happens whose effects continue after the event
- a never-ending assembly line of death
- psephologist, pollster?
- shtum, British slang for silent
- decorative statistics
- Sisyphus spinning the wheels of a perpetual-motion Peloton
- neijuan, Chinese, involution is the experience of being locked in competition that one ultimately knows is meaningless
- Genizah — Hebrew meaning “to hide or put away” — refers to a storage place in a synagogue or a cemetery where old Jewish books go to die
- occhiolino or little eye, Galileo’s word for microscope
- hidden curriculum refers to the set of social norms and skills that autistic people have to learn explicitly, but that neurotypical people learn automatically
- Degenerate gambler and chance king
- Russlandversteher, a derogatory term for people who take a soft stance on Vladimir Putin’s Russia
- chyron, a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image (as during a news broadcast)
- a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline
- Omne Ignotum Pro Mirifico; Wonderful, Because Mysterious.
- Cirque du Subway
- Smokey, sweet nuts
- Scariants, scary variant portmanteau
- low return world
- paperback shaman
- a counter-syllabus
- fantasy cults
- assabiya, group cohesion or solidarity
- panopticoin
- the human built world
- death lottery
- vetocracy, a system defined by how easy it is, and how many ways there are, to block action.
- tangping (躺平) = Internet buzzword that refers to the choice of young people choosing to stop working overtime and rebel against overly competitive society.
- silverback MD
- mayhem man
- a creeping charlatanism
- bucolic dystopia, impoverished and rundown
- No pole fisherman; if you don’t fish ’em, you don’t eat ’em.
- homo mimeticus
- performative assholery
- loosely connected, incoherent mishmash of militants, grifters, and attention merchants
- thugs dam, in Tibetan, is an honorific meaning one engaged in meditation, applied to the dead
- entropocene, an era of larger, quicker, less predictable, non-linear change
- freaking in, freaking out on the inside
- a dim, electrified jejunum
- a cipher of misinformation and malaise
- poop on the porch
- Sideshadowing: unsettles simple causal explanations of human events, reminding us that what actually takes place is always one of numerous possibilities that could have occurred.
- pace hurtling gravewards
- tedious memoryhole preamble
- Proustian signifier
- Wu-wei (無為), literally translated as ‘no trying’ or ‘no doing’, but best translated as ‘effortless action’ or ‘spontaneous action’.
- lifequakes
- fatally tangled
- ukeireru, acceptance (of who you are, what you do and what society does to you)
- necessary surgery long put off
- malinformation — facts taken out of context to support a false narrative
- supermediated psychoscapes
- ten percent world, what remains after people are done with it
- Utopian dreams commingled with nightmares of terrible ruin.
- quantum extremal surface
- asymmetry (or convexity) of payoffs
- an assortment of cranks and kooks
- sheng nu, leftover women in Chinese
- sphincter factor
- our poisonous effluent
- papier-mâché Mephistopheles
- mukbang, eating broadcast
- poop splash
- chutney and cheese
- buyout barons
- globaloney
- muddled median
- crepuscular corners
- a moral panic in search of an audience
- agent of refusal
- escalator to extinction
- dark bargain
- liangmianren, or two-faced people
- kintsugi, treating breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
- punctuated equilibrium
- the marrow of the medium
- wakanyeja, Lakota for the child is also holy
- generated incapacities
- Compersion is our wholehearted participation in the happiness of others.
- expensive, interlocking failure
- a liability bomb
- the NPR set
- ride new waves of ruin
- Bentoism, BEyond Near Term Orientation
- technosignatures
- semi-irl Gen X boomerpost
- future fascist fashion
- a break in continuity
- pushed up to the very edge of apocalypse
- avoid the pyramiding catastrophe
- horrorshows of humanity
- micro-consumerist bollocks
- limitarianism
- fatal hatchouts
- postprandial
- a dorm room pass-the-bong puzzler
- captivity of childhood
- tatterdemalion
- surface gravity
- anger outlaw
- the freedom of a shimmering anonymity
- ludic element
- isomer, mirror image, like hands
- niugui sheshen, 牛鬼蛇神, evil monsters, bad political actors
- desirable difficulties
- Big Meat
- Rush hour Rambo
- heladeros, ice cream maker
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