- sparple, to deflect attention from one thing by making a big deal of something else entirely
- bâi làn, Chinese slang, let it rot
- Schadenfreude, German, Schaden(Damage) + Freude(Fun)
- ohne Ecken und Kanten, German, without corners and edges
- zugzwang, chess, when you must move but it would be better to not do anything
- secretary, literally means ‘person entrusted with secrets,’ from Latin secretarius, the trusted officer who writes the letters and keeps the records
- cause to pause
- Woonerf, Dutch, living street
- Ozempic face, premature aging of face due to weight loss for middle aged and older people
- pretend poultry peddlers
- skeuomorph, when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced
- demersal, bottom-feeding
- a human concierge for a machine
- mauvaise foi, bad faith
- bai ma wang zi, Chinese, prince on the white horse
- trailer park verism
- antechamber to the tomb, hospital, by George Orwell in How the Poor Die
- Psychopomps, creatures that accompany the recently dead, e.g., Valkyrie
- barbarians by design
- a technological Elsewhere
- hyper-real, the ability to make imitations that are more realistic than originals—Umberto Eco
- privatized insights
- bulmat, Korean, fire taste
- the cleanest dirty shirt
- Sardinian Laugh, laughing at your own death
- Mono no aware, the pathos of thing is, impermanence
- Etsi docta disco, Latin, although I am learning
- cetera fors regit, fortune rules the rest
- boilerplate nationalism
- Kynikos
- the paradise of little fat men
- nequid nimis, Latin, do not do too much
- disscepolo della sperientia, disciple of experience
- φιλόλουτρος, philoloutros, lover of baths
- infinite use of finite means
- model collapse
- calques, direct translations
- Melior Mundus, a better world
- future tripping, focusing on uncontrollable things to come rather than one day at a time
- extend and pretend
- Minsky moment
- Jagwah, smart man-about-town
- beaming your baloney
- change recession
- etui, small sewing kit
- absolute clownshoes
- information shattering
- inbred failson
- Non-overlapping magisteria
- conversations with the possible
- nostalgia-tripping cash-grab
- counterfeit democracy
- gayby boom
- sub-ideological
- singed around the asshole
- teaching dolphins to swim
- sloshes in the smooth skull meats
- banquet of consequences
- lumpenproletariat, the social scum—Karl Marx
- museum of the future
- bucklicht Männlein, little hunchback
- imagination without insight
- guerdon, reward
- leg godt, Danish, play well, etymology for Lego bricks
- Egregore, a nontemporal psychic entity borned from a shared collective mindspace
- copulation in the economic mode
- nuchnibi, people that don’t fit anywhere in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
- cognitive exoskeleton
- brilliant hyper specific nerd shit
- dream machine
- just for jolly, speaking of motivation
- guided missiles and misguided men
- shtetl, Yiddish for tiny town
- luftmensh, Yiddish for someone with his head in the clouds
- sitzfleisch, German, sitting flesh, To have sitzfleisch means the ability to sit still for the long periods of time required to be truly productive; it means the stamina to work through a difficult situation and see a project through to the end
- jiggly wigglies
- low rent struggle session
- I pick the blossoms of my sorrow
- adjective tryhard
- a long, interesting trip to nowhere
- nihilistic mercy prayer
- brotoloigos, the ruin of humanity
- vagueposting
- a gunshot wound straight into the heart of agency
- a life under pressure
- corpse grease
- polemical berserker
- radicalized hobbyists
- abandoned empire
cafebedouin.org 