notable Norwich Pharmacals

shruggie (internet n.): ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

deepfake (ML n.): deep(-learning-produced celebrity) fake (porn). Not just morally repugnant, but actively disastrous: the looming end of all candid-camera evidence.

binch (Twitter n.): bitch; for people who shy away from gendered language.

milkshake duck (internet n.): a person made briefly famous for innocuous reasons who turns out to have a dark past.

to corncob (internet v.): 1) to clearly lose a debate and then deny that you have; 2) pejorative for gay sex?

celldar (n.): cellphone radar; spies and riot squads are able to forego their own transmitters because we are all now broadcasting our location constantly.

bandh (Indian n.): general strike called by a political party, enforced with physical threats.

persec (military n.): personal security: the privacy of people with access to your secure system.

strangelet (theoretical physics n.): conceivable stable particle consisting of all three types of quark in large and equal quantities. The LHC-will-destroy-us (conspiracy) theory relied on the production of these.

black string (theoretical physics n.): conceivable generalisation of black holes for D > 4. See also black brane.

quark star (theoretical physics n.): conceivable compact exotic star with ridiculous high temperature and pressure, forcing nucleons into a continuous state of free quarks.

loo-lah (Irish n.): madman; loonie.

shitcoin (digital currency n.): a poorly-conceived, poorly-administered or otherwise hopeless altcoin.

to exitscam (confidence trick v.): to run a company, eventually silently stopping business while still taking revenue. The denominalisation is new, for altcoins. Happened a lot already.

SBU (corporate n.): Strategic Business Unit. Uses the popular but completely spurious "profit center" terminology: stuff like this is why reductionism has a bad name.

Norwich Pharmacal orders (English law n.): court order used to force disclosure of documents.

launch cadence (rocketry n.): rate of launch; metaphorical momentum; a weird marketing term that pops up in otherwise-technical discussion of SpaceX.

Shadowsocks (Chinese proper n.): Open source tool for evading the Great Firewall. Notable for being Chinese software with no Chinese name.

paralyzation (n.): process of paralysing. Just not a form I've seen before.

The ratio (Twitter n.): comments / (retweets + likes). Ratio < 1 is a sign that You Done Fucked Up.

Got the draws (AA. exclamation): As in, "been there, done that, got the draws..."

order-to-shelf, OTS (retail n.): fine-grained, "just-in-time" inventory management; relies on tracking exact quantities on the shop floor. Maybe perverse, stressful.

Green water (ecology n.): water from precipitation; stored in the root zone and evaporated, transpired or incorporated by plants.

Blue water (ecology n.): water from surface or groundwater. Irrigation, industry and domestic water use.

Grey water (ecology n.): fresh water required to assimilate pollutants to meet specific water quality standards.