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nolle prosequi (Latin ): unwilling to pursue; used to announce the decision not to press charges. skeptical theism (n.): view that we can't discern whether natural evil is good evidence against the existence of Yahweh. ("it would not be surprising for an infinitely intelligent and knowledgeable being's reasons for permitting evils to be beyond human comprehension") True in the same boring way as radical sceptical scenarios: we can't rule it out. But it quite ignores the fact that evil is manifest ; the burden of showing its hidden benevolence is on the theist. noseeum (pej. n.): 1) sandfly, midge; 2) anti-theodicy inference by which we survey the world, find no reason for the immense suffering within, and so conclude there is no reason for it. Meant as snark by theologians, but sounds fine to me. portfolio career (n.): having several part-time jobs at once. Could be nice, but is more often sweet lemons on the part of people who want to be in crow...

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 . ...

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.): conceivab...

She opened the door to his room gently, excruciated by the whining of the hinge. Patrick was asleep in his bed. Rather than disturb him, she tiptoed back out of the room.      Patrick lay awake. His heart was pounding. He knew it was his mother, but she had come too late. He would not call to her again. When he had still been waiting on the stairs and the door of the hall opened, he stayed to see if it was his mother, and he hid in case it was his father. But it was only that woman who had lied to him. Everybody used his name but they did not know who he was. One day he would play football with the heads of his enemies. ‘Be absolute for death’, a strange phrase from Measure for Measure, returned to him while he bared his teeth to rip open a sachet of bath gel. Perhaps there was something in this half-shallow, half-profound idea that one had to despair of life in order to grasp its real value. Then again, perhaps there wasn’t. But in any case, he pondere...

citogenesis (n.): the creation of a loop of citations for a baseless fact. Coined by Randall Munroe. Bradford Factor (HR n.): dumb measure of the burden of someone's sick days: (Number of occasions sick)^2 x Total days absent. Objectively badly calibrated: making an effort to come in to the office before full recovery is penalised compared to taking a whole week off. Apparently widely used in the UK. dehiring (HR n.): euphemism for being fired gently; colluding with an employee you want rid of, to get them hired somewhere else. outplacement (HR n.): another kind of gentle firing: in particular, outsourcing the firing process to a training-and-counselling company. scripta manent (Latin proverb): 'text remains'; can I get that in writing? music bread (Sardinian n.): sort of like a papadum or hardtack. sea-turtle (海龟) (n.): a Chinese graduate of foreign universities who returns to China. Pun on haigui, ocean-return . ...

imeldific (adj.): ostentatious; extravagant to the point of vulgarity. Coined by Imelda Marcos, which tells you something about her relationship to herself. Professor the Lord (UK pron.): Honorific for someone who is both a university professor and a peer. cf. Professor the Lord Vice Chancellor Winston and Professor the Lord. privately rational (economics adj.): Tyler Cowen 's new term for economically rational. I think I'll taboo the latter from my speech, since the former is so much more evocative. senolytic (bio n.): agent that kills only old, malfunctioning, cancer-prone cells. Just beginning applications... Lit: age destroyer . elephant's breath (pretentious n.): beige-grey . do-calculus (stats/CS n.): Judea Pearl's causal identification framework; a symbolic logic for deriving all the observational implications of a model. turbocode (electronics n.): particularly good way of encoding signals to g...

Cassandrafreude (n): twisted pleasure in things going wrong exactly the way you predicted, when no one believed you. forensicist (med n.): criminal psychiatrist, involved in e.g. verifying insanity defences. Real lie detectors. egregore (occult n.): thought-form; Volksgeist ; manipulative hivemind; some sort of supernatural meme. Poland problem (social n.): having a polarised and unmanageable political culture despite good economic performance. (This is an exception to a very general socioeconomic rule.) Peculiar to Barkley Rosser but he makes up for the usage gap on his own . packed assembly (politics n.): an artificially-skewed parliament / voter base. Ballot stuffing via selection bias. cattle-cake (husbandry n.): animal feed block; mostly straw and yeast and other run-off. talcosis (med n.): inflammation of lungs from constant exposure to talc powder. BID (Latin): bis in die; twice a day. culture add (HR n.): Ne...