notable mezzo del camin

• copaganda (US n.): media that portrays police positively; also those press conferences with a bunch of dope on the table.


• Black MIDI (music n.): Subgenre of Japanese chip-tunes, named for having so many notes that the score would look solid black if transcribed to sheet music. Pairs well with bullet hell games.
  
  


• PC music (music n.): genre and/or performance-art label; pop music insiders making exaggerated, hyperreal versions of present Chart milieus. It is diabetes music. More difficult to listen to at length to than e.g. thrash metal or Black MIDI; I make it 4 mins into this for instance.


• to misbuy (PR v.): to purchase wrongly. Complement to missell attributing blame on consumer; pushback from financial companies.


• collision installation (biz n.): business strategy in which a human helps you switch to the product; imparts metaphorical energy by "colliding" with you and sending you sailing into the CLTV. See also Collison install.


• the cheese reaction (neuropharmacology n.): acute hypertension from eating certain amines (especially tyramine) along with MAO-A inhibiting antidepressants.


• Bateman's principle (evo bio n.): hypothesis that variability in reproductive success is greater in males than in females.


• bihet (Tumblr pej. adj.): 'Bisexual Heterosexual'; calling someone a fake bisexual. Used by radicals: yet another way of accusing privilege.


• sundown town (US n.): place which advertised its own racism, which said it was unsafe for non-white people to be at night. Until the 50s, often advertised by public road signs, e.g.:

  Colorado: "No Mexicans After Night".
  Connecticut: "Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark'.

  


• dunder and sunder (Pythonista n.): double or single underscored method name; sometimes a metonym for the method itself - "__str is a dunder".


• live service (corporate game n. and adj.): A game that you can't buy, that you have to subscribe to or pay-per-play. Dreadful milking operations, in general.


• kief, keef, kif (Arabic n.): fibrous hashish resin.


• mezzo del camin (Italian n.): mid-life. From Dante.


• credential stuffing (cybersec n.): automated unauthorized access, using logins from the many, many mass data leaks. Barely deserves to be called hacking.


• to go stag (US v.): to attend a social event without a date.