A place to collect additions to lexicon(s), as they cross my path and provoke "hmmm... what's that all about?" and maybe eventually a gloss for each ... historical, demographic, sociocultural, geographical...
But for now, here's a List of my encounterments in the last few weeks, words and phrases that have salience, and so provide savor and flavor in the moment. Most are not new to me, though the thoughts their appearance inspires may be. Some belong among MY Keywords:
unseemly
wabi-sabi
Bros (as in 'Techbros' and 'Broligarchs')
NPC ('non-playing character')
-ware (nod to Rudy Rucker)
Agency (see Doc Searls)
Tar Baby
Algorithm, and 'algorithm distortion'
Cyber and Cyber-
reprehensible
recrudescence ("...the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve")
affordance
macramé
The Bully Pulpit
sin vergüenza ('without shame', but deeper)
pinkwashing (and -washing more generally); 'cause marketing'
-bot
lacuna
mashup
parasociality vortex ...see also Parasocial Relationships: Imaginary Friends of the Social Network Age Arvid Kahl 26v22
hunkering
hold my beer
"...kinks in that slinky"
cishet men
manchild / manbaby
flooding the zone
fantods
YCMTSU
chaos monkey
manosphere alphas
polycrisis
tendentious
enabling
amIright?
barn-burner
monetized/monetised
woke
culture wars
contestatory AI
explication
parse
problematize
avatar
vielschreiberei 'writing to excess'
Mo[u]ldy Fig and see also On and off the bus oookblog 7ix17
metastatic nationalism
louche
jive ... jive turkey ... jive-ass
dis track
You know what I'm sayin'?
signifying monkey
signification
bandied about
D'oh
topolect
squabble up
externalities, externalize
hilaribad
swasticar [Tesla]
rhetoric
knock yourself out
parlance
symbionts
sock puppet
weaponize
genre
tmesis [abso-fucking-lutely]
disingenuous
bugaboo
denote
hella
derp
AFAICT ...as far as I can tell...
KFTF ...keeping found things found...
folksonomy
kickstarter
FWIW
verisimilitude
serendipity [of course...]
your mom [insult and disdain]
slack, slacker
-core (add amialivecore)
doomscrolling
so cringe (see 13viii25)
launder
muggles
clickbait
enshittification
zoombombing
inerrant
couth, couthless, uncouth
portentous
exochoronym
feck and feckless
hipcrime
neoterise
vibe coding
agentic AI
PJ 'private jet'
salience
'a Thing'
cryptojacking (and crypto generally)
Ponzi scheme
qwerty and qwertyfication
vehicle of providence
latent space
retroactive continuity, retcon
doublespeak
anticipatory compliance
creativity
intellectual property
brand franchise
multimodasl content, and 'content'
vibe coding
thinning the herd
normie
Chad
pseudoepigraphically attributed
Singularity
growlery
phrasal vernacular viz. 'flooding the zone'
Sovereign Individual
sectioned
chiasmus
truthiness (October 2005)
po faced
misophonia
metafiction "a genre of fiction that comments on its own artifice"
Terminus (Roman god of boundaries, of limits)
adiaphora 'matters indifferent', inessentials, neither required nor forbidden
hashtag (proposed 2007, OED 2014)
doted on
rendition
shock and aweSh
performative contradiction
Shawinigan Handshake
montweazel
truffle out
"everything's computer"
backronym (viz. DOGE)
hiraeth (Welsh)
Product Market Fit (PMF)
yassify
memristor
festaiuolo
staffage
inherent fakeitude
palter
prosuming content
ressentiment
dead shark shuffle
pronoiac meme-broker
hypermobile dromomaniac
Gesamtkunstwerk
étonnez-moi! ('Astound me!')
sandbaggingIn the current lexicon of the A.I.-safety community, it is "sandbagging": pretending to be aligned with human purposes until it figures out what its own purposes might possibly be...
(there are more to be added from the yellow pads, probably many in lexgather.html, but on 17vii25 It occurred to me to look at the noteworthy words and phrases I've noted since early June and list those that want to be included. Here they are: bellwethers seen/heard, begging for glosses and explanations and ...unpacking signification)
Keir Starmer described as "a besuited void"
manufactroversy
indexicality (which ==> the Peirce/semiotics rabbit hole)
Agnotology (a-gnosis)
antimemetics (see 13iv)
group chat
satrap/satrapy
surveillance pricing (Cory Doctorow 24vi)
nimbus (26vi)
assistive technologies (via Warren Ellis)
interpolate
hyperobjects
apotheosis
normalize
uncanny
con
valence 16vii
alignment 17vii (see Language Log)
"a mass attentional event" (viz the Epstein brouhaha)
leaderboard
overtourism (see Craig Mod)
influencer and 'influencer marlketing'
algorithmic pandering
interactome, connectome, and other -ome words
hedonic tone ('emotional affect' and 'feliciphic calculus' [Jeremy Bentham]
aperçuadded 19vii25:
chillaxing
coffee badging
manifolds
doublespeak
retcon 'retroactive continuity'
ekphrastic
exposiomic/exposome
sanewashing
trolling
enforced omnipresence
IRL 'In Real Life'
atavistic integrity
non-discursive means
AI acronyms: LLM. GPT. LMM etc
agenbite of inwit
agentic recursion
involution
RSI 'recursive self improvement'
polytropos 'many twists and turns'
Imagination
autopoietic. 'poiesis' = making
qualia
proem
bellwether
portentous
reactive data binding
hüzün (Turkish) 'melancholy' Wikipedia: cites Pamuk: ...it has come to denote a sense of failure in life, lack of initiative and to retreat into oneself, symptoms quite similar to melancholia
Alignment 18vii25
Weltanschauung 11viii25
performative
fecosystem (Doc Searls 14viii25)habitus (Giles Crouch How Is Social Media Really Changing Humanity?)