- no fixed address, homeless
- asphodel, Greek land of the dead
- bioreactor meat
- food’s comforting inner cuddle
- pay-triots, money-grubbing grifters exploiting a nationalist cause
- the death of nuance
- axolotls, Mexican salamander
- mononymous
- moral holiday
- the holiday from history
- call of the void, wanting to jump from a high place, hit a guard rail
- det stora oväsendet, “The Great Noise”, witch trials in Sweden
- metaworse
- defecation on doorsteps
- digital context collapse
- torment nexus, propose a new technology and people will go to great lengths to create it
- X accelerationism, or the belief that mainstream industries can be pressured or provoked into adopting X as a way to protect their assets from being ripped off by people coopting their IP for X
- full recluse and cottagecore
- …a part of eternity lies in reach of those capable of staring, unblinking, at the sea’s deranging expanses
- COVID Casablanca
- the election of the unfavorables
- the dark throat of seeds
- tourist investors
- a little whalesong in the yoga studio
- incipient knuckleheadism
- dorveille, or wakesleep
- HVEs, homegrown violent extremists.
- DVEs, domestic violent extremists
- songlines, divine pathways
- Metamates
- behavioral activation, the theory that your actions can influence your mood
- bitter-enders, people who sit all the way through the credits of movies
- crystallized in your chrysalis.
- definitional collapse
- anticipatory self-censorship
- res ipsa loquitur, negligence can be determined from the nature of the injury in the absence of direct evidence
- Debts to be paid: once for a simple trade, twice for free-given aid, and thrice for the insult made.
- pluralistic ignorance, something no one believes, but everyone thinks that the vast majority believes
- shitpost diplomacy
- the fandomification of global conflict
- geometric progression
- riding-crop belief
- the faces at the bottom of the well
- a different slice off the same loaf
- an endless chain of half-built houses
- ambisextrous
- a digital iron curtain
- signs in the sewage
- the stone that stirs the avalanche
- cyberapocalypse
- a personalist regime
- the opportunity set, like the Overton window but for opportunity
- convergent evolution
- context collapse
- revanchism, from the French, revenge
- a dog’s breakfast of contradictions
- a meaningless farrago of fragments
- a hard school of danger
- writing in a language that is at the corners of change
- an arc of implication
- cowboy economics: driven by the spirit of the limitless frontier, where we shoot (or drill) first and ask about consequences later
- Risk cannot be destroyed, it can only be shifted through time and redistributed in form.—Christopher Cole
- algospeak, changing the words you’re using the circumvent automated platform censorship
- technowashing, the growing obsession with technological solutions to climate change
- a dead link, a sign of ruin in an otherwise living space
- Jammern auf hohem Niveau, high level whining
- phlogiston, a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
- prelude to the poop
- the agency of the virtual, that which acts without physically existing
- рашизм, “ruscism” or Russian fascism
- jerk-light internet
- left of launch, peripheral processes before things happen
- right of launch, is addressing the present
- hipshitical
- blasts of complete batshittery
- the wealthy, the pale and the male
- endless struggle sessions
- te voya decir la neta, let me give the truth to you straight
- farkakte, Yiddish for covered in excrement
- Mamahuhu, literally horse-horse, tiger-tiger in Chinese but means careless person or so-so.
- a man of desires and grudges
- buzzsaw of fandom
- The devil wears Pravda
- wicing, Old English for pirate
- almost a Belter—antisocial, independent and intolerant
- a kind of beautiful madness
- bagualu, alchemist’s pot
- Zeitenwende, end of an era
- cyborg locust brains
- Incertus, not sure of himself
- ungatz, nothing
- timeless turtle
- grizzled geezers
- The reality of the naive
- metastasizing mind worms
- ceteris paribus, all things being equal
- pareidolia, assigning meaning to seemingly random patterns
- siloviki, Russian literally people of force
- No hoper
- a Barbie that burped
- [pills] a thousand tiny promises
- Lashes to ashes. Bust to dust.
- mingle-mangle
- damned by dollars
- epistemically foraging
- umwelt, the perspective of the world and environment unique to a particular organism
- mahraganat—meaning festivals, a style of music in Egypt
- getihu, Chinese, individual businesses or sole proprietorships
- eucatastrophe, Tolkien, the crash of good fortune.
- subterranean secrets
- lingxiu, Chinese, leader
- deli bal, Turkish, mad honey
- honey hunter
- a black hole of charisma
- dickle, dill pickle
- forget-me-nazis
- crypto-coven
- KTLO, Keep The Lights On
- plein, French, full
- chicken of the underpass, rats
- incel retirement community
- asabiyyah, group consciousness or solidarity
- counterelite, a heresiarch
- Kalb al-Akrab, the heart of the scorpion
- autoptic, based on one’s own observation
- involution, reduction in size, increased complexity
- eudaimonia, well-daemoned
- ankang, Chinese, police-run psychiatric hospitals
- proliferating varieties of absence
- bezzle, when prices rise faster than real value.—paraphrasing John Kenneth Galbraith
- paralysed by choice
- baizuo, woke educated liberal
- legal cynicism, losing confidence in police leads people to resolve conflicts through their own means
- abattoir, slaughterhoise
- roué, debauched old man
- wantrepreneurs
- China’s final warning, when China warned Russia many times about the Taiwan Straight
- graveyard of stars
- Sokushinbutsu, living mummification
- opportunity neglect, a tendency to reject opportunities with low probability of success even when they come with little or no objective cost (e.g., time, money, reputation)
- dullahan, or gan ceann, Irish, a headless fairy carrying a swollen, greenish head with large eyes under one arm, and rides a black horse.
- twindemic, flu and COVID-19
- narrative creation overdrive
- crosswalk cock
- chumbox
- kaiju eiga, monster-movie
- inceligence
- fertig lustig, ready/finalized and funny
- ихтамнеты, in Russian, they are not there
- fail whale
- errorphants
- randy reindeer
- kurashi, hygge
- vaca flaca, skinny cow, hunger times
- shiterative
- algospeak — vocabulary meant to skirt content moderation
- Orang-Pedek, Indonesian, short person
- wodewose, huge hairy wild men
- Eyedropper of gravy
- Less than mediocre
- kalsarikännit, Finnish, pantsdrinking, drinking in underwear
- feces thesis
- JAG, Just A Guy, average
- turd bird
- Quintero, town in Chile that makes concrete and is so polluted it is called the sacrifice zone
- peregrinations, wandering to different countries
- Iblis, a Muslim name for the devil
- VVVVVV, Vilket Var Vad Vi Ville Visa, roughly “Which was what we wanted to show” in Swedish
- полный пиздец, Russian,completely fucked up
- apanthropy: the desire to be away from other people.
- sympathy grift
- the daily death march of sorrow
- ideology over evidence
- melon felons
- pyramid of skulls
- anomaly cluster
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