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  1. Jul 2023
    1. Ahmed allegedly created two fake accounts that masqueraded as "tick accounts"; accounts owned and controlled by the exchange that contained data about the liquidity provided by all liquidity providers for a particular price range.
  2. Mar 2023
    1. “When I hear gaggles of people who come into the store, someone has read the book and they’re like, ‘Oh my God. You have to read this. The hero is so cute. He’s such a cinnamon roll’” — a term borrowed from fan fiction that means the male love interest is “really sweet, but he’s not a pushover.”
    1. Content management system (CMS) vendors have been rushing to either rebrand as “Digital Experience Platforms” (DXP for short) or position themselves as part of a “composable DXP” — a suite of marketing tools working together to handle the digital experience.
    1. Oppressed groups aren’t always infantilised – in a process known as ‘adultification’, children from racialised minorities are typically viewed as having more agency, which makes them more likely to be criminalised– but the right is happy to deploy a diversity of tactics.
    1. Even if I have not yet convinced you to abandon “criminal justice system” in favor of “carceral system,” I hope I have you thinking about the fact that some of our legal system’s common terms are viewed and experienced by others in non-neutral and harmful ways.
  3. Feb 2023
    1. Think of it like “heteronormativity,” the idea that heterosexual couples “automatically, but inappropriately, assume all other people fit their own categories,” but for cars.
    2. That’s because a lot of us suffer from a malady called “car brain” — though Ian Walker, a professor of environmental psychology at Swansea University in Wales, prefers to call it “motonormativity.”
  4. Oct 2022
    1. A polycrisis is not just a situation where you face multiple crises. It is a situation like that mapped in the risk matrix, where the whole is even more dangerous than the sum of the parts.
    1. It also saw a surge in “flipping,” or customers buying an item, then selling it again a few months or weeks later.
    2. Next is “remade,” where rolls of deadstock fabric are used to produce popular Reformation designs or vintage-inspired silhouettes.
    1. A negroni sbagliato (which translates to wrong negroni) replaces the gin with a sparkling wine.
    2. A negroni is traditionally made with one part gin, one part Campari, and one part sweet vermouth.
    1. An azide is a type of molecule that contains three nitrogen atoms bound in a straight line; an alkyne contains a triple bond between carbons.
    2. Bertozzi coined the term bioorthogonal to refer to reactions that occur without interfering with the chemistry of a living cell.
    3. Orthogonal, which in geometry means perpendicular, refers in chemistry to reactions that can proceed independently in the same medium without affecting each other.
  5. Sep 2022
    1. People from Connecticut are called “nutmeggers” because the unofficial nickname for CT is “the nutmeg state.”
    1. “Beezer”, of course, is Joseph-speak for “Bimmer-owning geezers”, those who bought their first new BMWs for less than the current sales tax on a new BMW back when many Americans thought “BMW” meant “British Motor Works”.
    1. An antipersona is a representation of a user group that could misuse a product in ways that negatively impact target users and the business.
  6. Aug 2022
    1. A ‘shadowland’ can be defined as ‘an indeterminate borderland between places or states, typically represented as an abode of ghosts and spirits’; the word captures the haunting quality of these zones.
  7. Jul 2022
    1. In this work, an inanimate spider is repurposed as a ready-to-use actuator requiring only a single facile fabrication step, initiating the area of “necrobotics” in which biotic materials are used as robotic components.
    1. This is opposed by a hydraulic system: a chamber in the center of the spider’s body (known as a prosoma) pushes out fluid to open the leg, with separate valves allowing the animal to control each limb independently.
    1. Google, for instance, refers to its directly employed workers as “Googlers,” and its contractors as “TVCs” (temporary, vendor or contractor).
    1. The chosen point ofdeparture for exploring these questions is the concept of xenohospitality;a term I borrow from Helen Hester – one of the authors of theXenofeminist Manifesto – who defines it as openness to the alien, adefinition I link closely to ‘comradeliness’.
    2. Concurrently,the jokey portmanteau ‘momrade’, i.e. mom + comrade, has circulated persistentlyin the twenty-first century on online forums maintained by communities ofmothers and/or leftists.
  8. Dec 2020
    1. One trick is to do a joint “premortem” exercise. Get together in a room, and imagine that you’re six months into the future. The feature has been built and launched and isn’t doing well. What went wrong?
  9. Nov 2020
    1. Oyster eggs, having become larvae, attach themselves to rocks, or to whatever ‘culch’ or artificial surface human beings lay down for them – old roof-tiles were used as a traditional oyster-base in Arcachon.
  10. Mar 2020
    1. BA Reader Rick Kopp suggested “portmantwo”, which I love, but is slightly edged out by Theodore Hunter suggesting “portmandeux”.
    2. I came up with metaportmanteau, which isn’t quite right, and even progénituremanteau — literally a portmanteau of portmanteau and progéniture.
    3. And here we are now with blazar, which is a combination of blazing and quasar.
    4. I even came up with my own coinage for a kind of word I called a contaphonym, for two words that sound similar.
    5. Needing a new name for this class of quasar, astronomers cheekily called them blazars.
    6. Quasar was coined in the 1960s, and is a combination of the words quasi and stellar; when first discovered these objects were seen to be powerful sources of radio waves but look like stars, so they were called quasi-stellar radio sources.
  11. Jan 2020
    1. For them, the "midlife crisis" (a term coined by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in a 1965 journal article) usually involves busting stuff up—marriages, mostly—but also careers, norms, reputations.
  12. Dec 2019
    1. So we coined a scientific term for it, ‘kama muta’, borrowed from the ancient Sanskrit where it meant ‘moved by love’, written in the beautiful Devanāgarī script as काममूत.
  13. Nov 2019
    1. In addition to periodically stuttering or blocking on certain sounds, he appears to intentionally not stutter by switching to an alternative word—a technique called “circumlocution”—­which can yield mangled syntax.
  14. Aug 2019
    1. “Scrollytelling” is an online storytelling technique in which more and more content is revealed as the user scrolls down the page.
  15. May 2019
    1. Circlusion means pushing something – a ring or a tube – onto something else – a nipple or a shaft.
    1. “Microchimerism” is the scientific term for the cross colonization that takes place in pregnancy, whereupon the pieces of DNA left behind by the fetus float around the adult’s body for the rest of their life.
  16. Feb 2019
    1. In 2016, the top seven advanced to the grand championship finale, where they’d need to enter a full cyber-reasoning system—one that would not merely notice a problem but could also infer its nature.
  17. Jan 2019
    1. It’s also common to see getters being used with Promises, since Promises are known to not be reusable computations, so that wrapping a Promise constructor in a getter (also known as “factory” or “thunk”) makes it reusable.
  18. Dec 2018
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  20. Jan 2018
    1. Brief polemics such as Graeber’s “bullshit jobs” have been followed by more nuanced books, creating a rapidly growing literature that critiques work as an ideology – sometimes labelling it “workism” – and explores what could take its place.
  21. Sep 2017
  22. Oct 2013
    1. As Steve Lohr has written in The New York Times about the MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson, “data measurement is the modern equivalent of the microscope.” Sean Gourley, cofounder of a company called Quid, calls this new kind of data analysis a “macroscope.”

      Are We Puppets in a Wired World? Sue Halpern November 7, 2013

    1. Bolving is unique to Exmoor for what is known elsewhere as the belling or roaring of red deer stags at rutting time. Adrian Tierney-Jones described it in the Daily Telegraph in 2007 as “a mix of roaring lion, bellowing cow, chainsaw and someone severely constipated”.

      World Wide Words Newsletter 855 Michael Quinion October 26, 2013

    1. He had read about an advertising technique called astroturfing in which one person can impersonate hundreds of social media accounts to make it look as if there were grassroots support for their cause.

      THE EXTREME MEASURES ONE MAN TOOK TO LEARN ABOUT ONLINE TRACKING Sarah Kessler October 28, 2013

    1. The head of the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations agency in charge of marine regulations, warned in 2000 of the growing hazards of building larger ships and called for a comprehensive review of safety rules, known as Safety of Life at Sea, or Solas.

      Too Big to Sail? Cruise Ships Face Scrutiny Jad Mouawad October 27, 2013

    1. All of this has shaped the new work, which she calls a “choreoessay,” in the same way that “For Colored Girls” was a “choreopoem,” said Claude Sloan, a longtime friend and director who shares a brownstone with her in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

      A Poet With Words Trapped Inside, John Leland, October 25 2013

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