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grognard (French / nerd n.): old soldier; a player who refuses to play updated versions of a game. large-sample statistics (Victorian n.): pertaining to operations on samples of size 150 or more. (Pffffff) Power distance (sociology n.): the extent to which low-status people accept power inequality, on average, in their culture. Literature includes a cross-cultural metric which strikes me as an excellent idea. Atlanticism (Russian pej n.): doctrine of close alliance between America and Europe; NATOism. The contrived antagonist of 'Eurasianism'. I had scoffed at the very idea, but Germans are so anti-American that Dugin's dark scheming is not even absurd; read this on Schroeder as corrupt Eurasianist . novichok (Russian n.): Secret Soviet nerve agent, apparently much stronger than VX, apparently used on Skripal. free-range parenting (US n.): Letting your child roam, walk to school, live as if this was the lo...

egoboo (fandom / open source n.): ego boost; social credit; pleasure received from public recognition of one's voluntary work. See also warm glow . soyboy (MRA pej. n.): feminine man - in reference to the urban legend / quack palaeo notion that soy xenoestrogens lower testosterone. Depressingly, it's because of people like this that Cordelia Fine's bullshit is justifiable. See also numale, cuck, beta (though on top of the gender policing, soyboy adds diet policing and is that much worse). rufous (n.): reddish brown; robiny. inclusion rider (Hollywood n.): condition that one's peers must meet a diversity quota. Dolbyification (industry n.): moving off manufacturing / and towards licencing and assurance. See Coolidge effect (biology n.): broad tendency for males to exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new sexual partners (even though previous partners are still available and had not ). emodiv...

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...

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...