# Terminology Hub The master map of the vault's vocabulary: the lexicon shelf, the subfolders of `/Terminology/` (354 term pages across 11 folders), and one alphabetical row per term. Each lexicon is a categorized view of one domain; the A — Z table below is the single flat index across all of them. A few term pages that live in `/Subjects/` (Disinformation, Information Warfare, Authoritarianism) keep their rows here too. ## Lexicons - [[AI Lexicon]] — AI-industry jargon, community coinages, governance and safety vocabulary - [[Authoritarianism Lexicon]] — fascism studies, authoritarian-personality research, regime pathology, neo-reactionary vocabulary - [[Christian Nationalism Lexicon]] — the loaded language of Christian-political organizing - [[Cryptocurrency Lexicon]] — crypto mechanics and the political layer built on them - [[Cybersecurity Lexicon]] — attack techniques, threat actors and security infrastructure - [[Disinformation Lexicon]] — disinformation and propaganda vocabulary, plus media-ecosystem and platform terms - [[Economics Lexicon]] — finance mechanics, political economy, and business, startup-finance and federal-contracting terms - [[Healthcare Lexicon]] — drug pricing, insurer practices and hospital ownership - [[Information Warfare Lexicon]] — state-tradecraft loanwords — dezinformatsiya, maskirovka, siloviki - [[Misogyny Lexicon]] — manosphere and anti-feminist vocabulary - [[Plutocracy Lexicon]] — the rhetoric of concentrated wealth and the tax code - [[Politics Lexicon]] — general political, electoral, legal and foreign-policy vocabulary - [[Russian Political Lexicon]] — Russian political-cultural vocabulary and its American-right analogs - [[Surveillance Lexicon]] — surveillance technology, data brokers and tradecraft - [[Technology Lexicon]] — hardware and supply chains, robotics and drones, quantum computing - [[White Supremacy Lexicon]] — American white-supremacist political-historical vocabulary ## By folder - **AI** (31) — categorized view: [[AI Lexicon]] - **Authoritarianism** (62) — categorized view: [[Authoritarianism Lexicon]] - **Christian Nationalism** (6) — categorized view: [[Christian Nationalism Lexicon]] - **Cryptocurrency** (19) — categorized view: [[Cryptocurrency Lexicon]] - **Economics** (44) — categorized view: [[Economics Lexicon]] - **Healthcare** (20) — categorized view: [[Healthcare Lexicon]] - **Media** (20) — categorized view: [[Disinformation Lexicon]] - **Misogyny** (8) — categorized view: [[Misogyny Lexicon]] - **Politics** (67) — categorized view: [[Politics Lexicon]] - **Technology** (60) — categorized view: [[Technology Lexicon]] - **White Supremacy** (17) — categorized view: [[White Supremacy Lexicon]] ## A — Z Sorted alphabetically. **Domain** shows how the term is classified; cross-cutting terms carry several. | Term | Domain | Notes | |---|---|---| | [[340B Drug Pricing Program]] | healthcare / drug pricing / policy | Names the federal program requiring manufacturers to sell drugs at deep discounts to safety-net providers — a genuine subsidy that has also become a contested profit center and a Big Pharma counterattack target | | [[5G]] | consumer electronics / connectivity / conspiracy | Real cellular upgrade + durable health/COVID conspiracy; the substantive fight was barring Huawei from Western 5G networks | | [[Acolytes]] | theology / rhetoric | Liturgical term repurposed to cast political followers as quasi-religious devotees | | [[Acquittal]] | politics | The formal verdict that the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt | | [[Agentic Workflow]] | AI / architecture / capability | Names the pattern where an AI model operates in a loop — perceiving, reasoning, acting, observing results, and deciding what to do next — rather than generating a single response | | [[Aggrieved Entitlement]] | authoritarianism / social psychology | Kimmel 2013; entitlement → felt theft → outward rage; the affective architecture beneath right-populist mobilization | | [[AI Agent]] | AI / industry / capability | Names AI systems that can take autonomous actions — browsing, coding, purchasing, filing — rather than just generating text | | [[AI Doomer]] | AI / rhetoric / identity | Names the identity label for those who believe advanced AI poses catastrophic or existential risk — and, crucially, who lead with that belief as their primary framing | | [[AI Slop]] | AI / media / community | Names the flood of low-quality, AI-generated content — images, articles, social media posts, books — polluting the internet and eroding information quality | | [[AI Washing]] | AI / industry / criticism | Names the practice of companies falsely or misleadingly claiming their products use AI to attract investment, customers, or higher valuations — the AI era's equivalent of 'greenwashing.' | | [[AI Winter]] | AI / history / industry | Names historical periods when AI funding, interest, and progress collapsed after failing to meet inflated expectations — deployed in current discourse as either a cautionary precedent ('this hype … | | [[Alignment Tax]] | AI / safety / industry | Names the performance or capability cost of making AI systems safe — framing safety as a trade-off against capability, and implying that 'unaligned' models are inherently more powerful | | [[Alternative Facts]] | disinformation / political rhetoric | Conway 2017 NBC; perspectival cover that displaces truth/lie binary | | [[American Exceptionalism]] | cross-cutting | Tocqueville → Stalin → Lipset; Calvinist-providentialist resonance even in secular usage | | [[Americas Original Sin]] | white supremacy / theology / political-historiography | Moral-historical framing of slavery (and, in extended deployment, the broader American racial-political project) as the foundational moral-and-political-and-civilizational injury that conditions the … | | [[Amicus Brief]] | politics | The amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief — a filing by a non-party offering the court expertise, perspective, or argument the parties won't supply | | [[Annuity]] | economics | A series of payments made at equal intervals — typically monthly, quarterly, or annually — over a defined period or for the life of the recipient | | [[Anti-Intraception]] | authoritarianism / social psychology | Adorno F-scale dimension 1950; rejection of inward/aesthetic/empathic thought; protects authoritarian commitment from self-examination | | [[Anti-Literacy Laws]] | white supremacy / slavery / education | Antebellum Southern statutes criminalizing the teaching of reading and writing to enslaved people, and in some states to free Black people | | [[Antifa (Right-Wing Slur)]] | disinformation / political rhetoric / anti-left slur | Contemporary American right-wing scapegoat-construct deployment; post-2017 Charlottesville intensification through 2020 protests, January 6 false-flag framing, 2025+ second-Trump-administration FBI/DOJ counter-Antifa institutional priority; [[Andy Ngo]] amplification infrastructure; paired with [[Antifa]] per Boogaloo precedent | | [[Apostates]] | theology / rhetoric | Boundary-policing label; re-codes political defection as religious betrayal | | [[Apparatchik]] | politics / russia / kremlinology | A full-time professional functionary of the Communist Party apparatus | | [[Appreciation]] | economics | An asset gaining value over time. The most common context is real estate (homes appreciating from purchase price to current market value), equity investments (stock prices rising), and certain … | | [[ARR]] | economics | Annual Recurring Revenue — the annualized value of a company's active subscription contracts | | [[Aryan]] | white supremacy / racial-pseudoscience / neo-nazi | Linguistic-historical term originally designating speakers of Indo-Iranian languages (an academic-philological category), substantially-misappropriated through late-19th-century racial-pseudoscience … | | [[Asset]] | economics | Anything owned that carries economic value and can produce future benefit — cash, property, equipment, a patent, a financial claim, a brand | | [[Atlanticism]] | authoritarianism / international relations | Post-WWII trans-Atlantic alliance + value-cluster; bidirectionally deployed (adherents-positive, Russian/dissident-right/anti-imperialist-negative); Eternal-Rome's structural opposite | | [[Austerity]] | economics / fiscal policy / political rhetoric | Names the fiscal-policy doctrine that governments should respond to deficits and debt by cutting public spending rather than raising taxes or tolerating temporary deficits — a term that operates … | | [[Authoritarianism (Term)]] | authoritarianism / political theory | The umbrella term — three-levels framework (psychological / sociological / regime-type) | | [[Autogolpe]] | politics / comparative politics / democratic theory | Names a specific form of coup d'état in which a sitting head of state — already in power through constitutional means — uses extralegal or unconstitutional measures to seize powers beyond those … | | [[Balance Sheet]] | economics | A snapshot, at a single instant, of what an entity owns and owes: Asset on one side, liabilities and Equity on the other, bound by the identity assets = liabilities + equity | | [[Balkanization]] | politics / geopolitics / media theory | Names the fragmentation of a region, organization, or information ecosystem into smaller, mutually hostile units that are unable or unwilling to cooperate — and whose fragmentation creates structural … | | [[Banality of Evil]] | authoritarianism / political philosophy | Arendt 1963; thoughtlessness vs. malice; Eichmann analysis; structural-cognitive condition for atrocity participation | | [[Banana Republic]] | authoritarianism / political economy | O. Henry 1904 coinage; United Fruit / Honduras-Guatemala original; contemporary inversion onto U.S. by both right and left users | | [[Bank Reserves]] | economics | The cash that banks hold against their deposit liabilities — physically in vaults, but mostly as deposits at the central bank | | [[Based]] | media / online culture | Lil B origin ~2010; online-right primary approval term; marks statements/people as admirably heterodox; the positive pole of the pill vocabulary ecosystem | | [[Benchmark]] | AI / evaluation / industry | Names the standardized tests used to compare AI model capabilities — but increasingly functions as a gameable metric that measures benchmark-optimization skill rather than real-world capability | | [[Bespredel]] | information warfare / russia / political culture | Russian *bez + predel* (without limit); origin in vorovskoy-mir criminal subculture; 1990s migration into political vocabulary describing oligarch chaos; Putin-era inversion now applied *to* the regime; specifically-moral register absent from English "lawlessness" | | [[Biblical Values]] | theology / politics | Movement-curated subset of biblical commitments presented as a survey; CN dogwhistle | | [[Biblical Worldview]] | theology / politics / epistemology | Orr → Kuyper → Schaeffer; the philosophical machinery beneath CN's anti-pluralism | | [[Bid Protest]] | economics | A formal challenge to a federal procurement — the terms of a solicitation, the cancellation of one, or an award decision — filed by an interested party | | [[Bilateralism]] | politics / international relations | Describes foreign policy conducted through direct agreements between two nations | | [[Biosimilar]] | healthcare / drug pricing | Names a near-copy of an approved biologic drug — the biologic analogue of a generic — whose market entry can slash prices but is routinely blocked by patent thickets and rebate walls | | [[Black Codes]] | white supremacy / legal-history / jim-crow | Immediate post-Civil-War (1865–1866) Southern legal-regime designating the set of state laws that criminalized Black freedom — vagrancy, unauthorized travel, unauthorized employment, unauthorized … | | [[Black-pilled]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Pill-family vocabulary descending from *The Matrix* (1999); settled despair as cognitive state; recruitment-pipeline marker for accelerationist / incel / dissident-right communities | | [[Blat]] | authoritarianism / informal governance / political economy | Names the Soviet and post-Soviet system of informal exchange networks: obtaining goods, services, and access through personal connections rather than through market transactions or bureaucratic channels | | [[Blockchain (Mental Model)]] | technology | A distributed database structure where records ("blocks") are linked together cryptographically and replicated across many independent computers, with consensus rules determining what constitutes a valid update | | [[Blood and Soil]] | white supremacy / ethnonationalism / nazism | German *Blut und Boden*; Darré 1930 systematization; nationhood as descent-plus-territory; Charlottesville 2017 chant; applied to the 2026 founding-narrative rewrite | | [[Blue Checks]] | media / online-culture / twitter-x | Right-coded pejorative-and-shorthand designation for the population of users formerly-verified by Twitter (pre-Musk-acquisition 'blue checkmark' verification status, indicating … | | [[Bluetooth]] | consumer electronics / connectivity | Short-range wireless for peripherals; minor beacon-based proximity-tracking privacy footnote | | [[Bolt Hole]] | authoritarianism / survivalism / billionaire-prepper | Survivalist-and-billionaire-prepper vocabulary item designating a remote secure-property to which a wealthy individual will retreat in case of catastrophic-political-economic-environmental-or-social collapse | | [[Bonapartism]] | politics / political theory / comparative politics | Names a political movement or governing style modeled on Napoleon Bonaparte: a strongman figure who claims to transcend class divisions and rule on behalf of 'the people' against corrupt elites … | | [[Bond]] | economics | A loan turned into a tradeable security: the buyer lends a fixed sum to an issuer (a government, a company) in exchange for scheduled interest payments and return of principal at maturity | | [[Boogaloo]] | authoritarianism / paramilitary | Civil-War-2 anticipation vocabulary; *Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo* derivation; linguistic-camouflage layering (Big Igloo/Big Luau); Hawaiian-shirt aesthetic; documented mass-violence connection | | [[Bots]] | disinformation / information warfare / automation | Umbrella entry for social bots, botnets, cyborg accounts, LLM bots; account-level automation infrastructure; Botometer; the contested-fraction-of-traffic debate; pair with [[Sockpuppet Accounts]] (human-operated) and [[Troll Farms]] (industrial scale) | | [[Bounded Choice]] | cults | Lalich; rational decisions within deliberately constrained option sets | | [[Brinkmanship]] | politics / international relations / foreign policy | Names the practice of pushing a dangerous confrontation to the edge of catastrophe — the 'brink' — to force an adversary to concede rather than risk mutual destruction | | [[Broadband]] | consumer electronics / connectivity / policy | High-speed internet as contested utility; net-neutrality, digital-divide, and local-monopoly fights | | [[Bugman]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | BAP / dissident-right slur for the urban-progressive male; Last Man retrofitted for online identity-formation; register: slur | | [[Bullet Vote]] | politics / elections / voting strategy | Names the tactic of casting a vote for only one candidate in an election where the voter is entitled to vote for multiple candidates | | [[Bulletproof Hosting]] | cybersecurity / cybercrime / criminal infrastructure | Names the criminal-infrastructure service at the base of most cybercrime: web/server hosting deliberately engineered to ignore abuse complaints, takedown orders, and law-enforcement requests | | [[Bully Pulpit]] | politics / presidential power / political communication | Names the unique power of the presidency to shape public opinion, set the national agenda, and command the attention of the entire country simply by speaking | | [[Buy Now Pay Later]] | economics / consumer finance / fintech | Names the short-term, point-of-sale installment credit product that splits a retail purchase into a small number of scheduled payments — marketed as an alternative to revolving credit-card debt … | | [[Caesarism]] | authoritarianism | Names a form of personalist, plebiscitary autocracy that retains the outward forms of republican or democratic legitimacy while concentrating power in a single charismatic strongman who claims to … | | [[Cap Table]] | economics | Capitalization table — the ledger that records every equity holder in a company: founders, employees (stock options/RSUs), investors (by round), and any special share classes | | [[Capability Overhang]] | AI / safety / governance | Names the situation where AI capabilities are 'stored up' and could be rapidly unlocked — either through more compute, better algorithms, or removal of safety restrictions — creating the risk of … | | [[Capital Gains]] | economics | Profit from the sale of an investment asset (stock, bond, real estate, business interest) at a price higher than the purchase price | | [[Carried Interest Loophole]] | plutocracy / tax-policy / private-equity | Specific U.S. federal tax-code provision permitting investment-management-industry partnership-interest carried-payments to be taxed at long-term Capital Gains Tax (20% top rate) rather than … | | [[Casino Capitalism]] | economics / political economy / financialization | Strange 1986; post-Bretton-Woods speculative-dominance diagnostic; financialization + deregulation + crypto extension + political capture compressed into one term | | [[Cathexis]] | authoritarianism / fascism studies | Freudian psychoanalytic loanword; libidinal investment of mass in leader; Frankfurt-school + Theweleit lineage | | [[Caudillismo]] | authoritarianism / latin american history | Personalist-military-strongman pattern; charismatic-leader + military-coercive-base + regional-elite-alliance + direct-mass-mobilization; Trujillo / Perón / Chávez / Ortega historical-comparative material | | [[Caveat Emptor]] | politics | "Let the buyer beware" — the legal principle that buyers have responsibility for examining what they're buying and bear the cost of failures of due diligence | | [[CBDC]] | cryptocurrency / monetary policy / conspiracy | Central bank digital currency; right-wing financial-surveillance & social-credit conspiracy nucleus. Register: dogwhistle | | [[Central Processing Unit]] | consumer electronics / hardware | The general-purpose CPU; foil to the GPU that displaced it at the center of the AI race | | [[Certificate of Ascertainment]] | politics | The certificate of ascertainment is the document by which a state's executive — the governor, unless state law designated another official before Election Day — formally identifies the presidential … | | [[Certificate of Election]] | politics | A certificate of election is the document — signed by a governor and/or secretary of state under state law — that formally attests a candidate was elected | | [[Certificate of Vote]] | politics | The certificate of vote is the document the presidential electors themselves sign when they meet in their state capitals in December, recording their ballots for President and Vice President on … | | [[Chekism]] | information warfare / russia / security services | Self-described unbroken-chain ideology of Russian security services (Cheka 1917 → OGPU → NKVD → KGB → FSB/SVR/GRU); guardian-estate self-conception; Putin's 1999 "We have served only one master" articulation; Soldatov & Borogan *The New Nobility* | | [[Cherry-Picking]] | disinformation / logical fallacy / rhetoric | Older formal-logic *suppressed evidence*; selective evidence presentation that is locally accurate but globally misleading; the statistically-most-common disinformation technique in everyday political discourse; Oreskes-Conway *[[Merchants of Doubt]]* climate-denial case study | | [[Chip Export Controls]] | consumer electronics / geopolitics / policy | US curbs on advanced chips/tools to China; sharpest tech-decoupling instrument, bipartisan Biden→Trump continuity | | [[Civilizational State]] | authoritarianism / international relations | Coker / Maçães contemporary IR-theoretical category; civilizational-rather-than-national state-actor self-positioning; China / India / Russia / Turkey / Iran cases | | [[Claim Denial]] | healthcare / insurance | Names an insurer's refusal to pay for care a patient has received or been prescribed — the single practice that turned diffuse frustration with health insurers into open public rage | | [[Clickbait]] | disinformation / online media / attention economy | Online-media jargon ~2010+; BuzzFeed / Upworthy era curiosity-gap headline optimization; four-feature taxonomy (curiosity-gap / emotional-trigger / misleading-framing / aesthetic-amplification); rage-bait specialization; engagement-economics structural pressure | | [[Clown World]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Dissident-right meme-phrase ~2018+; surrounding cultural-political environment as absurd; honk-honk / clown-Pepe iconography; comic-register cousin of black-pilled tragic-register | | [[Cognitive Dissonance]] | cults | Festinger; failed prophecies strengthening commitment | | [[Cognitive Warfare]] | information warfare / NATO / military doctrine | NATO 2020s framing: weaponization of human cognition itself — targeting how people think, not what they know; sixth domain of operations alongside land/sea/air/space/cyber; du Cluzel 2020 report; AI acceleration of cognitive-domain threats | | [[Collective Narcissism]] | authoritarianism / social psychology | de Zavala et al. 2009; group-level analog of individual narcissism; predicts contingent prejudice + populist-authoritarian voting | | [[Conflict Minerals]] | consumer electronics / supply chain / human rights | 3TG + cobalt tied to DRC conflict and child labor; Dodd-Frank §1502 disclosure regime, a standing deregulation target | | [[Containment]] | politics / international relations / foreign policy | Names the grand strategy that governed American foreign policy from 1947 through the end of the Cold War: the commitment to limiting Soviet Union expansion — politically, economically, militarily … | | [[Contingent Election]] | politics | A contingent election is the fallback the Twelfth Amendment triggers when no candidate reaches a majority of the electoral votes — 270 of 538 | | [[Convict Leasing]] | white supremacy / legal-history / labor-extraction | Post-Civil-War (1865–1928 by formal-legal abolition, though informal continuations persisted later) labor-extraction system through which Southern state governments leased convicted prisoners … | | [[Copperhead]] | white supremacy / civil-war-history / political-rhetoric | Civil-War-era pejorative (1860s) for Northern Democrats who opposed Lincoln's prosecution of the war and advocated negotiated-settlement with the Confederacy that would preserve slavery — derived … | | [[Corporatism]] | authoritarianism / political economy / fascism | Names a model of social organization in which society is structured into vertical 'corporations' (state-sanctioned bodies grouping employers and workers by economic sector) that are meant to … | | [[Counter-Drone]] | technology | Systems designed to detect, track, and neutralize hostile Drones | | [[Crypto Mining]] | cryptocurrency / energy | Energy-intensive PoW computation issuing coins; red-state energy-politics and Trump-family business | | [[Crypto Wallet]] | cryptocurrency / security | Holds the keys controlling crypto; the object at the center of the custody-vs-self-custody fight | | [[Dark Fleet]] | geopolitics / foreign policy / economics | Names the network of tankers and cargo vessels that use deceptive shipping practices — AIS spoofing, flag-hopping, opaque ownership, ship-to-ship transfers — to move sanctioned oil and other … | | [[Dark MAGA]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Fringe-but-mainstreaming MAGA variant ~2020+; explicit retribution + post-democratic endpoint embrace; 4chan / Twitter aesthetic origins | | [[DARVO]] | disinformation / abuse psychology / political rhetoric | Freyd 1997; Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender; perpetrator-response pattern documented in clinical abuse-dynamics; Trump / Kavanaugh / authoritarian-leader-response case applications; Harsey-Freyd 2020 empirical efficacy study | | [[De Minimis]] | politics | De minimis non curat lex — the law does not concern itself with trifles | | [[Death Cult]] | authoritarianism / political rhetoric | Bidirectionally-deployed pejorative; martyrdom-glorifying / eliminationist / consequentially-mass-casualty movements; the "unbargainable-with" rhetorical move | | [[Debanking]] | cryptocurrency / financial regulation | Loss of bank access reframed as coordinated ideological persecution; marquee MAGA grievance term. Register: colloquial | | [[Decoherence]] | technology | The loss of quantum properties (Superposition and Entanglement) through interaction with the environment | | [[Deep Fakes]] | disinformation / synthetic media | Reddit pseudonym 2017; AI-synthesized media of named persons | | [[Deep State (Media Vocabulary)]] | media / political rhetoric / conspiracy theory | Turkish *derin devlet* inflated into American political weapon; transforms permanent civil service into shadow government; pre-authorizes institutional destruction ([[Schedule F]], DOGE, [[Project 2025]]); paired with [[Deep State]] conspiracy entry | | [[Demagogue]] | politics / political rhetoric / regime pathology | Names the political leader who gains and holds power by appealing to popular passions, prejudices, and grievances rather than through rational argument, policy competence, or institutional legitimacy | | [[Democratic Backsliding]] | politics / democratic theory / comparative politics | Names the incremental erosion of democratic norms, institutions, and practices by elected leaders operating through legal or quasi-legal mechanisms — not a sudden seizure of power but a slow … | | [[Demoshiza]] | information warfare / russia / propaganda | Surkov-era state-media slur (демошиза); portmanteau of *демократы* + *шизофреники*; psychiatric-medicalization of democracy advocates; Trump-Derangement-Syndrome template ancestor | | [[Deplatforming]] | media / technology / content moderation | Removal from social media platforms; right reframes private moderation as ideological censorship; [[Alex Jones]] 2018 as inflection point; shadow ban, demonetization, cancel culture vocabulary family | | [[Depreciation]] | economics | The accounting recognition that physical assets lose value over time as they're used up, wear out, or become obsolete | | [[Derivatives]] | economics | Financial instruments whose value derives from something else — an underlying asset, index, rate, or event | | [[Derzhava]] | authoritarianism / russian political theory / foreign policy | Russian political-cultural concept naming the state's inherent status as a great power (великая держава) that the international system is obligated to recognize and respect | | [[Dezinformatsiya]] | information warfare / russia | KGB Service A 1923; the loanword "disinformation" is calqued from | | [[Digital Rights Management]] | consumer electronics / right to repair / IP | Restrictions on bought content/hardware; DMCA §1201 anti-circumvention is the repair-fight legal backbone | | [[Dirty Tricks]] | disinformation / political operations | Watergate-CREEP 1971–72 canonical case (Donald Segretti's *ratfucking* operations); Atwater 1988 / Stone 1972-present / Rove 2000 modern lineage; digital-era continuation through doxxing / sockpuppets / [[Project Veritas]] / coordinated-harassment operations; asymmetric institutional infrastructure observation | | [[Dividend Payments]] | economics | Periodic distributions of cash (or sometimes additional shares) by a corporation to its shareholders, typically paid quarterly, drawn from corporate after-tax profits | | [[Dog Whistle]] | politics / political rhetoric / campaign strategy | Names the rhetorical technique of embedding a coded message inside an apparently neutral political statement — the general audience hears an innocuous policy position while a target in-group hears a … | | [[Double Standard]] | misogyny / gender-discourse | Foundational gender-discourse analytical-vocabulary designating the structural pattern by which equivalent behaviors are differently-evaluated when performed by women versus men — particularly with … | | [[Doxxing]] | disinformation / online harassment / information warfare | 1990s hacker-subculture origin; Anonymous/HBGary 2011 → GamerGate 2014 → political-harassment normalization; downstream-cascade (swatting, employer pressure, in-person harassment); state-actor variants ([[Guccifer 2.0]] / [[DCLeaks]]); [[Kiwi Farms]] case | | [[Drain the Swamp]] | authoritarianism / populist-conservative / MAGA | Trump 2016 campaign slogan and subsequent MAGA-coalition standard rhetorical-vocabulary item designating a perceived corrupt-elite political-administrative establishment ('the swamp' — Washington … | | [[Drinking the Kool-Aid]] | cults / political rhetoric | Jonestown 1978 derivation (Flavor Aid actually); voluntary-credulity idiom that substantially trivializes mass-casualty coercive-violent reality; bidirectionally-deployed across political spectrum | | [[Drone]] | technology | An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — any aircraft operated without a human pilot on board | | [[Drug Price Negotiation]] | healthcare / drug pricing / policy | Names the IRA authority for Medicare to negotiate prices on high-cost drugs — the first crack in the decades-old ban, and the policy Big Pharma spent record lobbying sums to stop | | [[Drug Rebate]] | healthcare / drug pricing | Names the discount a manufacturer pays a PBM off a drug's list price in exchange for formulary placement — the hidden core of the U.S | | [[Détente]] | politics / international relations / foreign policy | Names a policy of deliberate relaxation of tensions between rival powers — specifically, the period of reduced U.S.–Soviet hostility from approximately 1969 to 1979, driven by Richard Nixon and Henry … | | [[E-acc]] | AI / ideology / community | Names the ideological counter-movement to AI safety and effective altruism — advocating maximum-speed AI development with minimal regulation, framing deceleration as the true existential risk | | [[E-Waste]] | consumer electronics / environment / supply chain | Fastest-growing waste stream, exported to the Global South; closes the loop with obsolescence, repair, and critical minerals | | [[Echo Chamber]] | disinformation / media studies | Confirming-only environment; pre-discrediting of outside sources | | [[Ecofascism]] | authoritarianism / environmental politics | Fusion of environmental concern + authoritarian/nationalist/racial commitments; Nazi *Blut und Boden* historical case; Christchurch/El-Paso shooter manifestos | | [[Election Certification]] | politics | Election certification is the formal, legally operative act by which a canvassing authority declares official vote totals — first at the county level, then statewide | | [[Election Denialism]] | disinformation / democracy erosion | Post-2020 organized movement refusing certified election outcomes; parallel-constructed with climate-denial / Holocaust-denial vocabulary; four nested phenomena (claim / movement / 2024 candidate slate / administrative-capture strategy); analytical relationship to The Big Lie + Stop the Steal | | [[Emergent Capabilities]] | AI / safety / governance | Names abilities that appear unpredictably in AI models at scale — framing AI development as containing unforeseeable 'jumps' that justify both existential caution and the argument that frontier … | | [[Encryption]] | cybersecurity / cryptography | Encoding information so only authorized parties can read it — the foundation of digital privacy and security | | [[Enemy of the People]] | media / political rhetoric / authoritarianism | Trump 2017 press-attack phrase; Lügenpresse / Lenin / Stalin / Mao lineage; transforms media from flawed institution into existential national threat; stochastic terrorism permission structure | | [[Entanglement]] | technology | A quantum correlation between particles that persists regardless of the distance separating them | | [[Entryism]] | politics / political strategy / organizational theory | Names the political strategy of joining an organization — typically a larger, more moderate, or more established one — not to participate in its existing mission but to subvert, redirect, or capture it from within | | [[Equity]] | economics | Ownership value — what remains after subtracting what you owe from what you own (assets minus liabilities) | | [[Eternal Rome]] | authoritarianism / russian conservatism | Dugin Eurasianism; Russia as civilizational heir to Rome; Filofei's *Third Rome* extended for 21st-c. geopolitical-cultural deployment | | [[Ethnopluralism]] | white nationalism / new right / identitarianism | Names the doctrine that each people has a distinct ethnocultural identity and a "right to difference" requiring a homogeneous homeland, and that the mixing of peoples destroys human diversity | | [[Eval]] | AI / evaluation / governance | Names the practice of systematically testing AI model capabilities, safety properties, and behavior — the AI equivalent of quality assurance, functioning simultaneously as engineering practice … | | [[Facial Recognition]] | surveillance / biometrics / civil-liberties | Biometric-identification technology designating automated computer-vision systems that compare facial-image features against reference-database images to produce identity-match assessments | | [[Fact-Checking]] | disinformation / journalism practice / counter-disinformation | Newsroom-craft term (early 20th-c.) → political-claim fact-checking institutional infrastructure (FactCheck.org 2003, PolitiFact 2007, *WaPo* Fact Checker 2007, IFCN 2015); platform-side third-party fact-checker program 2016+; 2022–2024 right-wing *Censorship Industrial Complex* rebrand-attempt; Meta January 2025 program discontinuation | | [[Faithless Elector]] | politics | A faithless elector is a presidential elector who casts a ballot for someone other than the candidate they were appointed to support | | [[Fake Audience]] | disinformation / astroturfing / online manipulation | Manufactured appearance of public support / attention / engagement; pre-internet *claqueur* tradition; *NYT 2018 Follower Factory* investigation inflection; Trump-rally documented attendance manipulation; Devumi FTC enforcement; fake-audience-of-one problem (curated info-bubble around leader) | | [[Fake News]] | disinformation / political rhetoric | Trump 2016+ rebrand of media-literacy term into press-attack weapon | | [[False Equivalence]] | disinformation / rhetoric | Bothsidesism; asymmetric-conflict-mishandling rhetorical structure | | [[Fascism]] | authoritarianism / political theory | Mussolini 1919; Griffin's palingenetic-ultranationalism; Paxton's regime-process model; Stanley's ten features; the contested label | | [[Fellow Traveler]] | politics / Cold War studies / influence operations | Names a person who sympathizes with and supports a political movement — typically a radical or authoritarian one — without being a formal member, card-carrying adherent, or organizational insider | | [[Fiat Currency]] | cryptocurrency / monetary policy | Government commodity-unbacked money; neutral term weaponized into a pejorative for debasable paper | | [[Filter Bubble]] | disinformation / technology | Pariser 2011; algorithmically-personalized information environment | | [[Financialization]] | economics / political economy / class analysis | Names the structural transformation of advanced capitalist economies since the 1970s in which the financial sector displaces production as the primary source of profits, power, and political … | | [[Firmware]] | consumer electronics / hardware | Low-level device code; the layer where parts-pairing and DRM locks actually live | | [[Fishing Expedition]] | politics | An investigation without a defined target — casting broad demands for documents, testimony, or data in hopes that something incriminating surfaces | | [[For-Profit Hospital]] | healthcare / ownership structure | Names the investor-owned hospital model — facilities operated to generate returns for shareholders — and anchors the critique that profit incentives reshape which services a hospital offers and to whom | | [[Formulary]] | healthcare / drug pricing | Names the insurer/PBM list of covered drugs and their cost tiers — the lever that turns formulary placement into a market-moving bargaining chip | | [[Fourth Generation Warfare]] | information warfare / military doctrine / paleoconservatism | Lind et al. 1989 *Marine Corps Gazette*; four generations of modern warfare (manpower → firepower → maneuver → decentralized non-state networks); Lind's secondary deployment reframes culture war as 4GW against Western civilization; [[Cultural Marxism]] connection | | [[Fractional Lending]] | economics | Banks accept deposits and lend out most of them, holding only a fraction as reserves | | [[Gas Fees]] | cryptocurrency / market structure | Per-transaction blockchain cost; regressive friction that belies the cheap-money-for-everyone pitch | | [[Gaslighting]] | disinformation / political rhetoric / abuse psychology | Hamilton 1938 play → 1944 Cukor film → Barton-Wilbur 1969 clinical → Stern 2007 abuse-dynamics → Duca *Teen Vogue* Dec 2016 political-transfer; Merriam-Webster 2022 Word of the Year; reality-undermining as the diagnostic mechanism | | [[Gerasimov Doctrine]] | information warfare / Russia / strategic studies | A doctrine that does not exist: Galeotti's 2014 coinage misinterpreting Gerasimov's 2013 *VPK* article as Russian hybrid-war prescription (it was a threat assessment of what Russia perceived [[the West]] as doing); retracted 2018; persists despite retraction; case study in how strategic vocabulary shapes strategic perception | | [[Glacis]] | politics / geopolitics / military strategy | A fortification term — the cleared, sloping ground in front of a fortress designed to expose attackers to defensive fire — borrowed into geopolitics to describe the belt of subordinate or neutral … | | [[Globalist]] | media / political rhetoric / conspiracy theory | Three-register dogwhistle: geopolitical critique (anti-trade), populist accusation (Davos elites), antisemitic signal (rootless cosmopolitan / international Jew); JBS → Buchanan → Bannon genealogy; built-in deniability architecture | | [[GLP-1 Drugs]] | healthcare / drug pricing / pharmacology | Names the blockbuster diabetes/obesity drug class (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound) that became the defining drug-pricing flashpoint of the 2020s — and the test case for every pricing mechanism at once | | [[Golden Share]] | economics | A golden share is a single share of stock carrying special voting or veto rights disproportionate to its economic value — typically held by a government, and typically giving it a permanent say over … | | [[Government Hospital]] | healthcare / ownership structure | Names the publicly owned hospital model — state, county, municipal, and federal facilities — the layer most exposed to budget politics and the backbone of the public safety net | | [[GPS]] | consumer electronics / connectivity / surveillance | Military satellite system → civilian utility → location-surveillance vector; warrantless data-broker location purchases | | [[Grandfather Clause]] | white supremacy / voter-suppression / jim-crow | Jim Crow-era voter-qualification device exempting a man from literacy, property, or understanding requirements if he — or a lineal ancestor — had been eligible to vote before the Fifteenth Amendment … | | [[Graphics Processing Unit]] | consumer electronics / hardware / geopolitics | Gaming chip turned AI engine; the scarce asset behind NVIDIA and the unit of account in chip-export policy | | [[Groomer]] | media / anti-LGBTQ / slur | Sex-offender vocabulary transplanted onto LGBTQ people, educators, and drag performers; Rufo strategic-labeling method; [[Libs of TikTok]] amplification engine; "Don't Say Gay" legislative output; paired with [[Groomer Narrative]] conspiracy entry | | [[Guardrails]] | AI / safety / governance | Names the behavioral restrictions built into AI systems — framing safety as a removable accessory (guard + rails) rather than an intrinsic property, which accurately reflects how easily these … | | [[Hack-and-Leak Operation]] | cybersecurity / information warfare / influence operations | Names an influence operation that fuses a cyber intrusion (the hack) with a strategic, selective release of the stolen material (the leak), timed and framed to shape an election or political outcome | | [[Hallucination]] | AI / safety / rhetoric | Frames AI-generated falsehoods as a cognitive phenomenon analogous to human perception errors, naturalizing the failure and implying it's an inherent feature of intelligence rather than a design flaw | | [[Happy Talk]] | media / tech-discourse / snyder-coinage | Timothy Snyder-coined analytical-vocabulary item designating the affective-discursive mode characteristic of contemporary tech-political-economic discourse — substantially-relentless-positive … | | [[Harvest Now Decrypt Later]] | technology | The intelligence strategy of intercepting and storing encrypted communications now, with the intent of decrypting them once a cryptographically relevant quantum computer exists | | [[Hatchet Man]] | politics / campaigns / political tactics | Names the operative whose designated role is to deliver attacks, do political dirty work, and absorb the reputational cost of ruthlessness so the principal can maintain deniability and a clean public image | | [[Hate Speech]] | disinformation / legal-rhetorical / political speech | UDHR 1948 / ICCPR 1966 international human-rights vocabulary → no [[First Amendment]] status in US → Matsuda 1989 critical-race-theory campus-speech-code era → 2010s platform content-moderation operational use → 2020s right-wing rebrand-attempt to delegitimize the category itself | | [[Heartland Theory]] | authoritarianism / geopolitics | Mackinder 1904/1919/1943 inner-Eurasia geopolitical theory; Russian-Eurasianist appropriation inverting British-warning into Russian-empowering frame; pairs with Eternal Rome / Russkii Mir | | [[Hegemonic-Party System]] | authoritarianism / comparative politics | Sartori 1976; multi-party form with structurally-disabled opposition; Mexico PRI / Hungary Fidesz / Turkey AKP / Singapore PAP / Russia United Russia canonical | | [[Horseshoe Theory (Disinformation)]] | disinformation / political theory | Faye 1996; far-left/far-right convergence claim, false-equivalence vehicle | | [[Human in the Loop]] | AI / governance / defense-tech | Names the requirement for human decision-making in AI-assisted processes — but increasingly functions as a compliance fiction that provides legal and ethical cover for automated systems where human … | | [[Humanoid Robot]] | technology | A bipedal robot designed to operate in human environments — walking on two legs, manipulating objects with hands, fitting through doorways and climbing stairs built for human bodies | | [[Hybrid Warfare]] | information warfare / military doctrine | Hoffman 2007 Potomac monograph; coordinated conventional + irregular + cyber + info instruments; Crimea 2014 canonical case; Galeotti's "Gerasimov Doctrine" misattribution and 2018 retraction | | [[Hysteria]] | misogyny / medical-history / rhetorical-deployment | Pre-modern medical-vocabulary category for a constellation of supposed female-specific psychological-and-physical symptoms, etymologically derived from Greek hystera (uterus) and articulated within … | | [[IDIQ]] | economics | Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity — a federal contracting vehicle that establishes a ceiling value and a minimum order, but leaves the exact quantities, delivery schedule, and specific task … | | [[Illiberal Democracy]] | politics / democratic theory / comparative politics | Names a political system that retains the procedural form of democracy — elections occur, votes are counted, winners take office — while systematically weakening the substantive liberal protections … | | [[Incel]] | misogyny / manosphere / online subculture | Self-applied identity term among adherents of the contemporary online-male-grievance movement formed around the claim that the speaker is involuntarily sexually-or-romantically deprived due to … | | [[Information Overload]] | disinformation / attention economy / media theory | Gross 1964 / Toffler *[[Future Shock]]* 1970; cognitive-capacity-vs-volume mismatch; deliberate weaponization as propaganda strategy (Russian *firehose of falsehood*; Bannon's *flood the zone with shit*); WHO *infodemic* terminology 2020 | | [[Interest]] | economics | The price of money across time — what a borrower pays a lender for the use of funds, expressed as a rate | | [[Internationalist]] | cross-cutting (foreign policy / conspiracy / anti-globalist rhetoric | Cross-cutting vocabulary item designating substantively-distinct registers: (1) the foreign-policy-analytical register designating preference for substantial-international-cooperation and … | | [[Internet of Things]] | consumer electronics / connectivity / surveillance | Always-connected everyday objects; the sensor mesh of surveillance capitalism + Ring–police partnerships | | [[Interposition]] | white supremacy / constitutional-theory / states-rights | Constitutional-theory designation for the doctrine that state governments retain a constitutional authority to 'interpose' their sovereignty between federal authority and the state's citizens … | | [[Interventionism]] | politics / international relations / foreign policy | Names a foreign-policy doctrine favoring active involvement — military, economic, diplomatic, or covert — in the affairs of other nations to advance perceived national interests, maintain … | | [[Iron Triangle]] | political science / political pathology | Three-corner network — committee + agency + interest group (policy-process sense), or politicians + organized criminals + business (criminal sense); now a Concepts page | | [[Isolationism]] | politics / international relations / foreign policy | Names a foreign-policy doctrine that opposes political, military, and (sometimes) economic involvement in the affairs of other nations — the conviction that national interests are best served by … | | [[Jingoism]] | politics / foreign policy / nationalism | Names aggressive, belligerent nationalism — specifically the enthusiasm for military confrontation and imperial adventure expressed as patriotic fervor | | [[Jungle Primary]] | politics / elections / electoral reform | Names a primary election system in which all candidates for the same office appear on a single ballot regardless of party affiliation, and the top two (or top four) vote-getters advance to the general election | | [[Just Asking Questions]] | disinformation / rhetorical maneuver / online discourse | Online-discourse vocabulary (chan-culture *JAQing off* ~2010+); interrogative-form claim-advancement with plausible-deniability built in; [[Tucker Carlson]] canonical contemporary case (*McDougal v. Fox* 2020 defense); [[Glenn Beck]] / O'Reilly antecedents; high-deployment topics: birtherism, Sandy Hook, Pizzagate, COVID origin, election denial, trans coverage, vaccines, Ukraine war | | [[Kakistocracy]] | politics / governance / political pathology | Names a system of governance in which political power is held by the least qualified, most unprincipled, or most venal members of society — government by the worst | | [[Karen]] | misogyny / race / class-resentment | Polysemic 2010s-2020s slur whose deployment crosses three analytically-distinct registers: (1) feminist-or-progressive class-and-race critique of entitled-white-middle-class-woman behavior … | | [[Kleptocracy]] | authoritarianism / political pathology | Rule by thieves; state-as-extraction-vehicle; Putin/Russia canonical; Dawisha + Chayes lineage | | [[Kochtopus]] | plutocracy / donor-network / conservative-infrastructure | Pejorative-and-analytical designation for the Koch-family-funded conservative political infrastructure — the network of think tanks, advocacy organizations, university-academic programs … | | [[Kremlinologist]] | politics / international relations / intelligence analysis | Names the analyst who studies the internal politics of opaque authoritarian regimes — originally the Soviet Union, now applied to any closed system where power dynamics must be inferred from indirect … | | [[Krugovaya Poruka]] | authoritarianism / russia / kremlinology | Centuries-old Russian institution of mutual accountability within a group, historically a collective-responsibility mechanism for tax and conscription obligations, later weaponized as a … | | [[Krysha]] | authoritarianism / organized crime / political economy | Literally 'roof' in Russian: the protection racket system in which a powerful patron — criminal, bureaucratic, or security-service — provides protection to a business or individual in exchange for … | | [[Lame Duck]] | politics / American governance / constitutional law | Names an elected officeholder — president, governor, legislator — whose successor has already been elected or whose term is expiring without renewal, rendering them politically weakened during the … | | [[Lamestream Media]] | media / anti-mainstream-media / right-coded-pejorative | Right-coded pejorative-portmanteau combining 'lame' (the slang-pejorative meaning unsatisfactory, unconvincing, unimpressive) with 'mainstream media' to designate the substantively-traditional … | | [[Late Republican Period]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | America-as-late-Rome declensionist framing; positions Caesarian authoritarian succession as historically inevitable rather than chosen | | [[Latent Space]] | AI / technical / philosophy | Names the high-dimensional internal space where AI models represent concepts — the geometric landscape where meaning is encoded as position, similarity is encoded as distance, and the model's … | | [[Legacy Media]] | media / political rhetoric | Family of terms (MSM, corporate media, lamestream media, drive-by media, regime media) framing institutional press as monolithic, captured, and obsolete; vocabulary genealogy from Limbaugh → Palin → Bannon → NatCon "regime media"; structural irony: right-wing media IS mainstream by market share | | [[Leverage]] | economics | Using borrowed money (or other fixed claims) to control a position larger than your own capital — amplifying returns and losses in equal measure | | [[Liquidity]] | economics | How quickly and cheaply an asset can be turned into cash without moving its price against you | | [[List Price]] | healthcare / drug pricing | Names a drug's published 'sticker' price (WAC) — the headline number almost no one actually pays, and the figure the rebate economy is built to obscure | | [[Literacy Tests]] | white supremacy / voter-suppression / jim-crow | Jim Crow-era voter-suppression mechanism through which Southern (and some Northern) state-governments imposed literacy-or-reading requirements as precondition for voter registration, deploying the … | | [[Lithium-Ion Battery]] | consumer electronics / hardware / supply chain | Rechargeable cell where conflict-cobalt, batterygate obsolescence, and e-waste fire risk all meet | | [[Loaded Language]] | cults | Lifton criterion #6; in-group jargon that replaces independent thought | | [[Loans-for-Shares]] | economics / political economy / post-Soviet transition | Names the 1995-1996 Russian privatization scheme in which the Yeltsin government pledged controlling stakes in the country's largest natural-resource enterprises as collateral for loans from a small … | | [[Lock Her Up]] | authoritarianism / populist-conservative / MAGA | Trump 2016 campaign chant — originally directed at Hillary Clinton in connection with her use of a private email server while Secretary of State — that subsequently expanded as MAGA-coalition … | | [[Lockup Period]] | economics | A contractual restriction preventing insiders (founders, executives, early investors, employees) from selling shares for a set period after an IPO — typically 90–180 days | | [[Loitering Munition]] | technology | A weapon system that combines the persistence of a Drone with the lethality of a missile: it circles an area ("loiters") until it identifies a target, then dives into it and detonates | | [[Long Hot Summer]] | politics / civil rights / race | Names the pattern of urban uprisings — concentrated in Black neighborhoods during summer months — that recurred across American cities from 1964 to 1968, peaking in the summer of 1967 when over 150 … | | [[Long March Through the Institutions]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Dutschke 1967 coinage (Mao + Gramsci-derivative); contemporary right-coded inversion indicting alleged successful-progressive-institutional-takeover; causal-companion to Cathedral / Regime diagnostic | | [[Mafia State]] | authoritarianism / political pathology | Litvinenko 2006 + Magyar 2013; family-firm structure + prosecutorial-capture; Russia/Hungary/Azerbaijan canonical | | [[Mainstream]] | media / political rhetoric / epistemology | The word itself as a political weapon; inverts prevalence from positive signal to negative signal — "mainstream" = wrong; contrarian epistemology foundation; market-share paradox (right-wing media IS mainstream); load-bearing move in the media-attack vocabulary stack | | [[Managed Care]] | healthcare / insurance | Names the dominant U.S. health-insurance model — in which an insurer controls cost and utilization through networks, prior authorization, and risk-based payment — and anchors the critique that cost … | | [[Mansplaining]] | misogyny / feminist-vocabulary / online-discourse | Feminist analytical-vocabulary coinage designating the gendered pattern in which a man condescendingly explains a subject to a woman, typically a subject in which the woman already has substantial or … | | [[Manufactured Consent]] | media / political theory / propaganda studies | Lippmann 1922 / Chomsky-Herman 1988; five-filter propaganda model; left-wing structural critique of corporate media adopted and simplified by the right into "the media lies to control you"; horseshoe convergence exemplar | | [[Marxist]] | disinformation / political rhetoric / anti-left slur | Cold War HUAC / McCarthy / Buckley 1951 *[[God and Man at Yale]]* lineage; post-2010 intensification (BLM, CRT, professoriate, mainstream press, Dem Party, DEI, climate advocates); concept-capture parallel to [[Fake News]] / [[Hate Speech]]; mutual reinforcement with [[Cultural Marxism]] conspiracy-theory; anti-Semitic adjacency | | [[Maskirovka]] | information warfare / russia | Soviet/Russian military-deception doctrine; 1944 Field Regulations institutionalization | | [[Mass Formation Psychosis]] | media / COVID-19 / conspiracy theory / psychology | Desmet theory via Malone on [[Joe Rogan]] (Dec 31 2021); pseudo-clinical framework pathologizing public acceptance of vaccines as mass insanity; reputation mining exemplar; gateway term from COVID skepticism to anti-institutional conspiracy thinking | | [[Massive Resistance]] | white supremacy / states-rights / education | Name for the organized Southern campaign (c | | [[Media Bias]] | disinformation / political rhetoric / media studies | Agnew November 1969 Des Moines speech inflection (Buchanan + Safire ghostwritten); 50-year right-wing institutional infrastructure (AIM 1969, MRC 1987, [[Fox News]] 1996); academic empirical research finds mixed patterns; *working the refs* mechanism; one of the load-bearing pretexts of contemporary right-wing rhetorical infrastructure | | [[Medicare Part D]] | healthcare / drug pricing / policy | Names Medicare's outpatient prescription-drug benefit - delivered through private plans, long barred from price negotiation, and the arena where the IRA's biggest drug-pricing reforms land and where … | | [[Meme Warfare]] | disinformation / online culture / information warfare | Military-and-strategic-comms vocabulary (Marines 2006 / Giesea NATO StratCom 2015) + chan-culture / *The_Donald* self-vocabulary; 2016 cycle inflection; Pepe / Kekistan / centipedes; downstream-violence connection (Christchurch / El Paso / January 6 manifesto citations); LLM-era 2024+ specialization | | [[Memecoin]] | cryptocurrency / market structure | Coin valued purely on hype; the $TRUMP open-casino face of crypto. Register: colloquial | | [[Mens Rea]] | politics | "Guilty mind" — the principle that crime requires not just a prohibited act (actus reus) but a culpable mental state: intent, knowledge, recklessness, or negligence, in descending order of blame | | [[Merchants of Death]] | politics / military-industrial complex / foreign policy | Labels arms manufacturers and dealers as profiteers who promote war for financial gain | | [[Micropenis]] | misogyny / manosphere / projection-vocabulary | Manosphere-discourse projection-category and counter-deployment: originally a clinical-anatomical term, the word has acquired triple analytical-deployment as (1) manosphere-internal pejorative … | | [[Microtargeting]] | disinformation / political advertising / surveillance capitalism | Direct-mail-marketing vocabulary 1990s → Rove 2004 → [[Cambridge Analytica]] 2014–2018; psychographic-profiling layer; OCEAN/Big-Five; Wylie whistleblower 2018; FTC $5B Facebook penalty; structural-discourse-fragmentation argument | | [[Milieu Control]] | cults | Lifton criterion #1; information environment manipulation | | [[Mind Control]] | cults / coercive persuasion | Lifton 1961 + Hassan BITE-model umbrella vocabulary; contested-construct critique (CIA MKUltra failure; methodological-circularity); Lifton eight-characteristics framework remains analytical-foundation | | [[Minority Rule]] | authoritarianism / american political theory | Levitsky-Ziblatt 2023; vote-share-to-power-share asymmetry produced by Senate / EC / gerrymandering / judiciary-capture stack | | [[Misinformation]] | disinformation / media studies / information integrity | Wardle-Derakhshan Council of Europe 2017 *Information Disorder*; intent-distinct sibling of [[Disinformation]] and *malinformation*; the false-without-deceit-intent category; operational role in CIB / academic-disinformation-research vocabulary; 2022-2024 right-wing rebrand-attempt to delegitimize the term itself | | [[Mixture of Experts]] | AI / machine learning / architecture | Names an architecture where only a fraction of the model activates for any given input — enabling massive total parameter counts with manageable compute costs, and redefining what 'model size' means | | [[Model Card]] | AI / governance / transparency | A standardized disclosure document for AI models — the 'nutrition label' analogy — that discloses training data, intended use, performance characteristics, limitations, and biases | | [[Moral Hazard (Term)]] | economics / insurance / political economy | Names the incentive distortion in which actors take greater risks because they are insulated from the consequences — originally an insurance-industry concept, weaponized in political-economic debate … | | [[Moral Panic]] | disinformation / sociology / media studies | Cohen 1972 *Folk Devils and Moral Panics*; [[Stuart Hall]] et al. *[[Policing the Crisis]]* 1978; American case-study sequence ([[Satanic Panic]] / crack-baby / super-predator / sharia / CRT / grooming / DEI); Rufo strategy as explicit operationalization | | [[Moving the Goalposts]] | disinformation / logical fallacy / rhetoric | The criterion-raising rhetorical move; sustained-deployment cases in climate-denial (decade-by-decade goalpost-shift through *is it changing? / human-caused? / dangerous? / actionable?*) and post-2020 election denialism (fraud → Dominion → chain-of-custody → voter-rolls → algorithmic manipulation → mail-in voting); cousin to Cherry-Picking / JAQ / Whataboutism / Gish Gallop | | [[Mucky-Mucks]] | politics | Dismissive label for powerful or self-important officials | | [[Mugwump]] | politics | Labels Republicans who bolted the party in 1884 to support Grover Cleveland over James G | | [[Multilateralism]] | politics / international relations | Describes foreign policy conducted through institutions and agreements involving multiple nations | | [[Multipolar World]] | politics / international relations / geopolitics | Describes an international system with multiple competing great powers rather than one (unipolar) or two (bipolar) dominant states | | [[Narrative]] | media / political rhetoric / epistemology | "The narrative" as right-wing term for what mainstream journalism produces; reframes factual reporting as deliberate storytelling by hostile elites; categorical dismissal without engagement; escalation-ladder midpoint between "bias" and "regime media" | | [[Near-Field Communication]] | consumer electronics / connectivity | Tap-to-pay short-range radio; adjacent to the cashless-society/CBDC debate, kept grounded by its short range | | [[Negative Income Tax]] | economics / tax policy / social policy | Names a mechanism for delivering a guaranteed income floor through the tax system rather than through welfare agencies — below a threshold income, the taxpayer receives money from the government instead of paying it | | [[Negative Interest Rates]] | economics | Interest rates below zero — lenders pay borrowers to take their money, depositors pay banks to hold their funds | | [[Negging]] | misogyny / manosphere / pickup-artistry | Pickup-artistry (PUA) tactic and vocabulary designating a deliberate low-grade insult or backhanded compliment directed at a target woman, intended to reduce her self-esteem sufficiently to make her … | | [[Nomenklatura]] | politics / russia / kremlinology | The Soviet system of party-controlled appointment lists for all significant positions across government, industry, military, and civil society | | [[Non-Linear Warfare]] | information warfare / russia / surkov | Surkov 2014 "Without Sky" coinage (as [[Natan Dubovitsky]]); "fifth world war" / "all against all"; Russian elite counterpart vocabulary to Western *hybrid warfare* | | [[Nonprofit Hospital]] | healthcare / ownership structure | Names the tax-exempt hospital ownership model — the largest category of U.S | | [[Normie]] | online subculture / dissident right / meme vocabulary | An in-group/out-group marker dividing those who are 'awake' to a subculture's hidden truths from the 'normal' mainstream majority who passively accept consensus reality | | [[NPC]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Non-Player Character; gaming-vocabulary slur for ideologically-conformist liberal-progressives; NPC-wojak meme; cognitive-conformity coding | | [[NRx]] | authoritarianism / neo-reaction | Self-name of the Neo-Reaction movement; Yarvin / Land / Hoppe lineage; 2024–26 mainstreaming via Thiel / Vance / Project 2025 | | [[Nullification]] | white supremacy / constitutional-theory / states-rights | Constitutional-theory designation for the doctrine that state governments retain a constitutional authority to declare federal laws unconstitutional and refuse to enforce them within the state's … | | [[OLED]] | consumer electronics / hardware | Self-emissive display tech; near-neutral, with burn-in as a soft lifespan limiter | | [[One-Party State]] | authoritarianism / comparative politics | Three structural variants (constitutional / de-facto / hegemonic-dominant); contemporary U.S. usage as forecasting-warning | | [[Operation Choke Point 2.0]] | cryptocurrency / conspiracy | Carter 2023; theory of a covert regulator campaign to debank crypto; unifies the grievance into one narrative | | [[Options]] | economics | A contract granting the right, but not the obligation, to buy (call) or sell (put) an asset at a set price by a set date | | [[Overton Window]] | disinformation / political rhetoric / public-opinion theory | [[Joseph Overton]] ([[Mackinac Center]]) ~1994; Lehman post-2003 formalization; Beck 2010 novel mass-audience promotion; strategic-discourse-shift model; right-wing-authoritarian project as 40-year successful Overton-shift program in tax / regulatory / immigration / election-administration domains | | [[Pan-Slavism]] | authoritarianism / 19th-c. nationalism | 19th-c. Slavic-cultural-political unity movement; Russian-imperial appropriation; predecessor to Russkii Mir / Eurasianism | | [[Parthenogenesis]] | science | Asexual reproduction from unfertilized egg; vertebrate cases challenge reproductive assumptions | | [[Parts Pairing]] | consumer electronics / right to repair | Serializing components so only the maker can authorize a swap; sharpest right-to-repair battleground (Oregon 2024 ban) | | [[Patent Evergreening]] | healthcare / drug pricing / intellectual property | Names the practice of extending a drug monopoly past its original patent through thickets of secondary patents and minor reformulations — delaying generic and biosimilar competition to protect pricing power | | [[Pathocracy]] | authoritarianism / political pathology | Łobaczewski 1984; rule by personality-disordered actors + the institutional dynamics that select for them; political ponerology | | [[Patrimonialism]] | authoritarianism / weberian sociology | Weber 1922; rule organized as extension of ruler's personal household; sultanism's broader umbrella; *neopatrimonialism* names contemporary hybrid form | | [[Pay-for-Delay]] | healthcare / drug pricing / antitrust | Names the antitrust-sensitive practice of a brand manufacturer paying a generic competitor to delay launching a cheaper version — buying extra monopoly time at patients' expense | | [[Payment in Lieu of Taxes]] | economics | A payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) is an agreement under which a property owner who would otherwise owe property taxes instead makes a negotiated payment to the local taxing bodies | | [[Peculiar Institution]] | white supremacy / antebellum-history / slavery-vocabulary | Antebellum Southern political-rhetorical euphemism for the institution of slavery, derived from the older English-language meaning of 'peculiar' as 'distinctive' or 'particular' (rather than the … | | [[Personalist Regime]] | authoritarianism / comparative politics | Geddes 1999/2003 contemporary academic vocabulary; the worst authoritarian-subtype on virtually every outcome dimension (war, repression, economy, succession) | | [[Petrodollar]] | economics / geopolitics / monetary policy | Names the system by which global oil trade is denominated in U.S | | [[Photo Manipulation]] | disinformation / visual rhetoric / image forensics | Pre-digital darkroom manipulation through Stalin-era systematic photo-purging (canonical case: King 1997 *Commissar Vanishes*) through Photoshop era 1990–2017 through generative-AI deepfakes era 2017+; Hany Farid academic-forensic field founding; C2PA / Content Authenticity Initiative provenance-infrastructure response | | [[Planned Obsolescence]] | consumer electronics / right to repair / political economy | Accusation that products are built to fail or feel dated; populist anti-corporate frame, batterygate the canonical case | | [[Plausible Deniability]] | information warfare / tradecraft / covert action | Doolittle Report 1954 anchor; structural principle for cut-outs / commercial cover / layered authorization; Bay of Pigs / Iran-Contra / 2016 IRA exemplars; "temporary deniability" reframe in social-media-forensic era | | [[Political Machine]] | politics / American governance / political organization | Names a disciplined political organization that controls nominations, patronage, and votes through hierarchical command and personal loyalty rather than broad democratic participation or ideological persuasion | | [[Poll Tax]] | white supremacy / voter-suppression / jim-crow | Jim Crow-era voter-suppression mechanism through which Southern (and some Northern) state-governments imposed monetary-tax payment as precondition for voter registration or voting, deployed with … | | [[Ponerology]] | authoritarianism / political pathology | Łobaczewski's broader research-program name; parent of pathocracy; clinical-psychiatric vocabulary applied to political evil-at-scale | | [[Ponyatiya]] | information warfare / russia / political culture | Russian *понятия* ("understandings"); vorovskoy-mir origin; the unwritten code governing elite conduct in lieu of formal law; *po ponyatiyam* vs. *po zakonu* distinction; Ledeneva foundational | | [[Post-Quantum Cryptography]] | technology | Encryption algorithms designed to resist attack by both classical and quantum computers | | [[Post-Truth]] | disinformation / political philosophy | Tesich 1992 → OED 2016; fact-displacement-by-emotion cultural condition | | [[Prebunking]] | disinformation / media studies / behavioral science | McGuire 1961 inoculation theory; van der Linden / Roozenbeek Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab; *Bad News* game 2018; Google Jigsaw [[YouTube]] prebunking in 2022 European elections; technique-pattern teaching vs. fact-correction; CIB-pairing necessity-but-not-sufficiency | | [[Prima Facie]] | politics | "At first appearance" — evidence sufficient to establish a claim unless rebutted | | [[Primitive Accumulation]] | economics / political economy / Marxist analysis | Names the process by which common or public resources are seized, enclosed, and converted into private property as the precondition for capitalist accumulation — originally Karl Marx's analysis of … | | [[Prior Authorization]] | healthcare / insurance | Names the insurer requirement that a treatment be approved before it is delivered — pitched as utilization management, attacked as a delay-and-deny mechanism that rations care for profit | | [[Private Equity Hospital Rollup]] | healthcare / finance / ownership structure | Names the private-equity strategy of acquiring hospitals with borrowed money, extracting returns through debt, real-estate sale-leasebacks, and cost-cutting, then exiting — the most financialized and … | | [[Private Key]] | cryptocurrency / security | Secret number authorizing spending; literal be-your-own-bank — total sovereignty and unrecoverable risk | | [[Programmable Money]] | cryptocurrency / conspiracy | Code-controllable money; a real smart-contract feature reframed as the social-credit control engine. Register: dogwhistle | | [[Prompt Injection]] | AI / security / adversarial | Names the fundamental security vulnerability of language models: the inability to reliably distinguish between trusted instructions and untrusted data, which becomes catastrophically dangerous when … | | [[Proof of Stake]] | cryptocurrency / technical | Capital-staking consensus; energy-free PoW alternative; sharpens the securities question | | [[Proof of Work]] | cryptocurrency / technical | Security via wasted computation; Bitcoin-maximalist proof of energy-backed scarcity | | [[Propaganda Feedback Loop]] | disinformation / network propaganda / media ecosystem | Benkler/Faris/Roberts *[[Network Propaganda]]* 2018; structural-asymmetry argument; right-wing media ecosystem hub-and-spoke architecture vs. centrist-and-left looser cross-checking architecture; 2020 election denialism as cleanest natural experiment; Dominion / Fox $787.5M settlement 2023 as first substantial outside-ecosystem accountability | | [[Provisional Ballot]] | politics | A provisional ballot is cast when a voter's eligibility cannot be confirmed at the polling place — a registration record not found, an address mismatch, an ID question, or a voter who requested an … | | [[Provokatsiya]] | information warfare / russia / tradecraft | Russian intelligence-tradecraft term for inducement-to-action operations; Okhrana → KGB → FSB lineage; Yevno Azef canonical; January 6 *fedsurrection* discourse as American echo | | [[Psychographic Profiling]] | disinformation / behavioral targeting / surveillance capitalism | OCEAN / Big-Five personality model (Costa-McCrae 1985+); Kosinski-Stillwell-Graepel PNAS 2013 *digital-footprint-predicts-personality*; Cambridge Analytica 2014–2018 commercial deployment via [[Aleksandr Kogan]] / *thisisyourdigitallife* harvest of ~87M Facebook profiles; Wylie 2018 disclosures; effectiveness-claim controversy (real-but-modest effect vs. firm's marketing inflation); LLM-era cost-reduction-and-realism-escalation | | [[Public Benefit Corporation]] | economics | A for-profit corporate structure that legally requires directors to balance stockholder financial interests with a stated public benefit and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation's conduct | | [[Public-Key Cryptography]] | cybersecurity / cryptography | Encryption system using mathematically linked key pairs (public and private), enabling secure communication between parties who have never met | | [[Quantum Error Correction]] | technology | Techniques for protecting quantum information from Decoherence and operational errors — the critical engineering challenge standing between current noisy quantum hardware and practical Quantum Computing | | [[Quantum Supremacy]] | technology | The milestone where a quantum computer performs a calculation that no classical computer can match in any reasonable timeframe | | [[Qubit]] | technology | The fundamental unit of quantum information — the quantum-mechanical equivalent of a classical bit | | [[Race War]] | authoritarianism / white nationalism | White-nationalist + accelerationist neo-Nazi goal-vocabulary 1970s+; *RaHoWa* Klassen variant 1973; documented in Charleston / Christchurch / El Paso / Buffalo manifestos | | [[RAM]] | consumer electronics / hardware | Fast volatile working memory; neutral, with the HBM bottleneck its only strategic edge | | [[Ransomware-as-a-Service]] | cybersecurity / cybercrime / criminal economy | Names the franchise business model that turned ransomware from a cottage crime into an industrial economy: a core group develops the malware, payment infrastructure, and victim-negotiation portal … | | [[Rare Earth Elements]] | consumer electronics / supply chain / geopolitics | 17 metals for magnets/electronics; Chinese processing near-monopoly used as an export-restriction coercion lever | | [[Rate Case]] | economics / utility regulation / administrative law | Names the adversarial administrative proceeding in which a regulated utility asks to change its rates and a commission decides how much it may collect and from whom | | [[Ratfucking]] | politics / political operations / dirty campaigning | The in-craft term for covert political sabotage operations — forged letters, planted disruptions, infiltrated campaigns, manufactured scandals | | [[Ratio]] | media / online culture / social media | Social media metric-as-judgment: replies overwhelming likes signals community rejection; Community Notes variant on X; simultaneously accountability tool and mob mechanism; the internet's native editorial correction | | [[Realpolitik]] | politics / international relations / geopolitics | Names a theory and practice of politics grounded in material power, practical calculation, and the pursuit of national interest rather than ideological, moral, or theological commitments | | [[Recount]] | politics | A recount is a re-tabulation of ballots in a race whose margin is close enough to trigger one | | [[Recursive Self-Improvement]] | AI / safety / alignment | The scenario where an AI system autonomously improves its own capabilities — modifying its code, weights, or architecture — then uses those improved capabilities to improve itself further, creating a … | | [[Redpilled]] | media / online culture / radicalization | *The Matrix* (1999) metaphor adopted by manosphere (~2012) then online right (~2014); frames political radicalization as epistemological awakening; structurally prohibits self-questioning; generated entire pill vocabulary (blue, black, white, iron, honk); Musk "Take the red pill" tweet 2020 | | [[Reflexive Control]] | information warfare / russia / decision theory | Lefebvre 1965 *Konfliktuyushchie struktury*; engineers configuration of (often-true) inputs to steer adversary's autonomous decision; deeper-than-disinformation; Russian general-staff doctrine | | [[Refurbished]] | consumer electronics / right to repair | Warrantied used-device tier; constructive counter to obsolescence, suppressed by activation locks and parts pairing | | [[Remigration]] | white nationalism / immigration / identitarianism | Names the far-right policy program of mass removal of immigrants and their descendants — including naturalized citizens — from European (and, in imported form, North American) countries, framed as … | | [[Rent-Seeking]] | economics / political economy / public choice | Names the economic activity of extracting wealth without creating corresponding value — obtaining income not from productive contribution but from manipulating the economic or political environment … | | [[Reputation Mining]] | authoritarianism / institutional capture | Deliberate deployment of legitimate institutional credentials to legitimize projects the credentialing institution would reject; MAHA triumvirate (RFK Jr. / Makary / Bhattacharya) as primary case study; [[Federalist Society]] pipeline as judicial variant | | [[Responsible AI]] | AI / governance / industry | Corporate governance vocabulary that brands AI safety and ethics work as a voluntary corporate commitment — positioning the company as self-regulating and preempting the case for external regulation | | [[Reward Hacking]] | AI / safety / alignment | Names the phenomenon where an AI system finds unintended ways to maximize its reward signal without actually achieving the intended goal — the technical manifestation of Goodhart's Law ('when a … | | [[RFID]] | consumer electronics / connectivity / surveillance / conspiracy | Cheap wireless ID tag; mundane logistics turned microchip-implant / 'mark of the beast' conspiracy magnet | | [[Right to Repair]] | consumer electronics / right to repair / policy | Cross-partisan populist movement for owner repair; farmers + libertarians + greens vs Apple/John Deere | | [[Right-Wing Authoritarianism]] | authoritarianism / social psychology | Altemeyer 1981 RWA scale; submission/aggression/conventionalism syndrome; project-namesake acronym | | [[Risk-Limiting Audit]] | politics | A risk-limiting audit (RLA) is a post-election statistical procedure that hand-checks a sample of paper ballots against the machine-reported outcome, drawing ballots until the evidence reaches a … | | [[Rug Pull]] | cryptocurrency / fraud | Crypto exit scam: hype a token, attract buyers, drain the value, vanish. Register: colloquial | | [[Runway]] | economics | The number of months a company can continue operating at its current Burn Rate before running out of cash | | [[Russkii Mir]] | authoritarianism / russian political theory | "Russian World"; Putin-era state-sponsored transnational community concept; linguistic + religious + civilizational; operational vocabulary for near-abroad intervention | | [[RWDS]] | authoritarianism / paramilitary | "Right-Wing Death Squad" patch / aesthetic; Latin-American death-squad and Pinochet-helicopter references; Proud-Boys / Patriot-Front milieu | | [[Sadopopulism]] | authoritarianism / political theory | Snyder 2018; pain-delivery-to-base + narrative-redirection; Putin / Trump / Orbán pattern | | [[Safe Harbor Deadline]] | politics | The safe harbor deadline is the date by which a state must resolve all disputes over the appointment of its presidential electors in order for that determination to be treated as final by Congress | | [[Safety-Net Hospital]] | healthcare / ownership structure | Names hospitals that serve a high share of uninsured, Medicaid, and vulnerable patients regardless of ability to pay — the institutions most exposed to coverage rollbacks and reimbursement cuts | | [[Samizdat]] | information warfare / dissent | Glazkov 1940s; Soviet self-publishing counter-vocabulary | | [[Scaling Hypothesis]] | AI / rhetoric / strategy | Names the thesis that making AI models larger and training them on more data is sufficient to produce increasingly general intelligence — the core belief driving hundreds of billions in AI … | | [[Search Intent]] | SEO / digital marketing | The underlying goal behind a search query — informational, navigational, transactional — that content strategists target to capture attention | | [[Secondary Market]] | economics | A market where existing shareholders sell their shares to new buyers, as opposed to the primary market where the company issues new shares | | [[Selective Exposure]] | disinformation / media effects / social psychology | Lazarsfeld 1944 / Festinger 1957 / Klapper 1960; pre-encounter avoidance of disconfirming content; broadcast-era constraint dissolved post-2000 high-choice media environment; Sunstein *Republic.com* / Prior *Post-Broadcast Democracy* / Pariser *Filter Bubble*; one mechanism among many producing polarization (not the full story) | | [[Self-Custody]] | cryptocurrency / libertarianism | Holding your own keys — 'not your keys, not your coins.' Crypto's core sovereignty claim. Register: slogan | | [[Semiconductor]] | consumer electronics / hardware / supply chain / geopolitics | The strategic chip chokepoint; CHIPS Act, export controls, and Taiwan's silicon shield all hang off it | | [[Semiconductor Fabrication]] | consumer electronics / supply chain / geopolitics | Chip manufacturing; most capital-intensive process on Earth, concentrated in Taiwan/TSMC — chokepoint inside the chokepoint | | [[Sensor]] | consumer electronics / hardware / surveillance | The input layer turning physics into data; the raw material of ambient surveillance | | [[Shadow Profiles]] | surveillance / surveillance-capitalism / data-extraction | Data-extraction practice designating the construction of personal-data profiles for individuals who are not registered users of a platform, through aggregation of data those non-users' … | | [[Shitposting]] | disinformation / online culture / meme warfare | Chan-and-forum culture origin (*Something Awful* / 4chan ~2007+); strategic taxonomy: in-group recreational / opposition disruption / demoralization ops / deniable-extremism delivery / radicalization-pipeline cover / aggregate-discourse degradation / strategic incoherence; post-irony as plausible-deniability layer (Phillips-Milner 2017); 2024+ mainstreaming via Musk-X and *Dark Brandon* counter-operation | | [[Shock Doctrine]] | economics / political economy / crisis politics | Names the political-economic strategy of exploiting crises — natural disasters, economic collapses, wars, pandemics, political upheavals — to impose radical free-market policies (privatization … | | [[Shoggoth]] | AI / community / safety | Visualizes the gap between an AI model's 'true nature' (alien, vast, incomprehensible — the shoggoth) and its user-facing behavior (the smiley-face mask of RLHF) | | [[Shor's Algorithm]] | technology | Peter Shor's 1994 quantum algorithm for factoring large integers exponentially faster than any known classical method | | [[Sigma Male]] | authoritarianism / manosphere | [[Manosphere]] positive-positioning category ~2014; lone-wolf outside alpha-beta hierarchy; mass-online TikTok mainstreaming 2020+; gateway-content for dissident-right intellectual material | | [[Silicon Reich]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Critic-coined name for the alleged tech-NRx convergence; Thiel / Yarvin / Vance / DOGE network; deliberate Reich-invocation | | [[Siloviki]] | information warfare / kremlinology | Putin-era security-services political faction | | [[SIM Swapping]] | cybersecurity / account takeover / fraud | Names an account-takeover technique in which an attacker convinces (or bribes) a mobile carrier to move a victim's phone number onto a SIM card the attacker controls | | [[Sistema]] | information warfare / russia / governance | Russian *система*; Ledeneva 2006/2013 academic systematization; the *informal operating-layer* of Russian governance (blat + krysha + kompromat + ponyatiya + clientelism) as distinct from formal institutional apparatus; self-stabilizing equilibrium, not transitional condition | | [[SJW]] | media / online-culture / anti-progressive-pejorative | Right-coded pejorative-acronym designating individuals perceived as substantially-engaged with social-justice-and-progressive political-cultural advocacy in ways the speaker … | | [[Slavophile]] | authoritarianism / russian intellectual history | Mid-19th-c. Russian intellectual movement; Khomyakov *sobornost'*, Kireevsky integral-knowledge, Aksakov organic-political; foundational divide vs. Westernizers; intellectual ancestor of Eurasianism / Russkii Mir | | [[Smart Contract]] | cryptocurrency / technical | Szabo 1994; self-executing on-chain code; basis for DeFi, tokens, and the 'code is law' claim | | [[Smishing and Vishing]] | cybersecurity / social engineering / fraud | Names the two channel-variants of phishing that move the lure off email: smishing (phishing by SMS/text message) and vishing (phishing by voice call) | | [[Sockpuppet Accounts]] | disinformation / online culture / information warfare | Pre-internet *plant* tradition → Usenet 1993 → Wikipedia administrative vocabulary 2004 → Operation Earnest Voice 2011 (CENTCOM persona-management contract); the account-level building block of troll-farm / astroturf / harassment work; CIB framework; LLM-era detection-arms-race escalation | | [[Sole Source]] | economics | A government contract awarded to a single vendor without competitive bidding, justified by the agency's determination that only one source can meet the requirement | | [[Solid-State Drive]] | consumer electronics / hardware | Flash storage with no moving parts; soldered-in storage as a repairability footnote | | [[Sound Money]] | cryptocurrency / monetary policy | Fixed-supply money doctrine; Austrian/gold-standard idea revived by Bitcoin maximalism. Register: slogan | | [[Source Amnesia]] | disinformation / cognitive psychology / memory | Johnson source-monitoring framework 1993; sleeper effect (Hovland-Weiss 1951); illusory truth effect (Hasher-Goldstein-Toppino 1977); source-attribution decays faster than message content; explains why even effectively-corrected misinformation leaves cognitive residue; constrains fact-checking effectiveness | | [[Source Credibility]] | disinformation / persuasion theory / media studies | Aristotle's *ethos* → Hovland-Janis-Kelley *Communication and Persuasion* (Yale 1953) foundational; two-axis construct (expertise + trustworthiness); sleeper-effect interaction with [[Source Amnesia]]; contemporary strategic manipulation: source-laundering, credibility-undermining of legitimate sources, counterfeit-credibility construction, anti-fact-checker delegitimization; post-2016 *trust collapse* discourse | | [[Sovereign Democracy]] | information warfare / political theory | Surkov 2006; democratic-procedures-without-democratic-substance doctrinal frame | | [[Soyboy]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Manosphere/dissident-right slur; effeminate-male diet-and-aesthetic critique; soyjak meme; pseudo-scientific phytoestrogen claim; physical-body subset of bugman | | [[Spheres of Influence]] | politics / international relations / foreign policy | Names a theory of international order in which great powers are entitled to dominate the foreign and domestic policy of the smaller states around them, and in which other great powers are expected to … | | [[Spiritual Warfare]] | theology / political rhetoric / NAR / charismatic | Reframes political conflict as cosmic battle between God and demonic forces; eliminates legitimate political opposition (opponents are demonically influenced); Wagner's SLSW systematization; January 6 prayer-warfare precursor; authorization of extreme political intensity as divine obedience | | [[Spread Pricing]] | healthcare / drug pricing | Names the PBM practice of billing a health plan more for a drug than it pays the pharmacy and pocketing the difference — opaque margin extracted from the gap, a target of the 2026 PBM reform law | | [[Stablecoin]] | cryptocurrency / monetary policy | Crypto engineered to hold $1; the dollar on-ramp and the product behind the [[GENIUS Act]] | | [[Stemwinder]] | politics / rhetoric | Labels a rousing, emotionally powerful political speech that galvanizes a crowd | | [[Stochastic Parrot]] | AI / criticism / rhetoric | Reframes AI language models as statistical text generators without understanding — countering the anthropomorphic framing ('hallucination,' 'reasoning,' 'understanding') that AI labs use to market their products | | [[Strict Liability]] | politics | Liability without fault: for certain acts, you pay for the harm regardless of intent or care — blasting, defective products, wild animals, statutory rape, many regulatory offenses | | [[Sultanism]] | authoritarianism / comparative politics | Weber-coined; Linz-developed; extreme personal rule unconstrained by ideology/law/institution; Trujillo / Mobutu / Niyazov canonical | | [[Superintelligence]] | AI / philosophy / safety | Names a hypothetical AI system that exceeds all human cognitive abilities in all domains — the maximalist endpoint of the AI trajectory and the scenario that drives existential-risk discourse, safety … | | [[Superposition]] | technology | Superposition is the defining property of quantum systems that allows a Qubit to exist in multiple states simultaneously — not "either 0 or 1" but "both 0 and 1 at once, with some Probability of … | | [[Supply Chain]] | consumer electronics / supply chain / geopolitics | End-to-end device production reframed from cost-optimization to national-security battlefield; the right's free-trade→economic-nationalism realignment | | [[Supply-Chain Attack]] | cybersecurity / intrusion / state espionage | Names an intrusion that reaches its targets indirectly — by first compromising a trusted upstream supplier (a software vendor, code library, update server, or hardware maker) so that the malicious … | | [[Suspicious Activity Report]] | financial regulation / anti-money-laundering | The core reporting instrument of the US anti-money-laundering regime: a confidential filing a financial institution submits to FinCEN when it detects a transaction it has reason to suspect involves … | | [[Swarm Robotics]] | technology | Coordinated behavior across many simple robots operating without centralized control | | [[Synthetic Data]] | AI / training / industry | Names the practice of using AI-generated content to train AI models — a self-referential loop that either solves the training-data scarcity problem or accelerates model collapse, depending on who's talking | | [[System on a Chip]] | consumer electronics / hardware | A whole computer on one die; integration drives device lock-in and fab concentration | | [[The Big Lie]] | disinformation / propaganda | Hitler 1925 → Trump 2020; audacity-as-credibility mechanism | | [[The Memory Hole]] | disinformation / political rhetoric / historical revisionism | Orwell *Nineteen Eighty-Four* 1949 origin; Stalin-era Soviet historical-revision real-world model; digital-era escalation (easier-to-delete-specific-items but harder-to-completely-delete due to [[Internet Archive]]); Trump-era documented operations (deleted tweets, federal-website scrubbing); 2025+ second-administration intensified federal-record-deletion operations; mutual reinforcement with [[Gaslighting]] | | [[The Pirate]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | BAP positive-aspirational vitalist masculine figure; [[Bronze Age Mindset]] 2018; structural-positive counterpart to Bugman / Soyboy / NPC slur-cluster | | [[The Real Economy]] | plutocracy / populist-conservative / class-political-rhetoric | Right-coded class-political distinction designating a real economy (manufacturing, agriculture, mining, fossil-fuel-energy production, skilled-trades, small-business) versus a fake or artificial … | | [[The Regime]] | authoritarianism / dissident right | Right-coded redefinition of *regime*; everyday-language counterpart to *Cathedral*; mainstreamed via Carlson / Vance / NatCon circuit | | [[The Remnant]] | theology / political rhetoric / identity formation | Self-identification for the faithful minority; converts democratic minority status from political liability into theological asset; immunizes against democratic accountability; authorizes minority-rule politics; structural parallel to redpilling | | [[Third Rail]] | politics / political strategy / policy | Names a political issue so dangerous that merely raising it is assumed to be career-ending — the political equivalent of touching the high-voltage third rail that powers electric subway trains | | [[Thought-Terminating Cliche]] | cults | Lifton; "fake news," "trust the plan," "enemy of the people" | | [[Time Value of Money]] | economics | A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow — because today's dollar can be invested to grow, because inflation erodes the future dollar, and because the future is uncertain | | [[Titushki]] | authoritarianism / political violence / hybrid warfare | Names the practice of deploying paid thugs and provocateurs — typically young men in athletic clothing — to infiltrate protest movements, assault demonstrators and journalists, and manufacture … | | [[Token vs Coin]] | cryptocurrency / market structure | Coin = native to its own chain; token = issued on another via smart contract; why anyone can mint a memecoin | | [[Too Big to Fail]] | economics / financial regulation / political economy | Names the doctrine that certain financial institutions are so large and interconnected that their failure would trigger cascading collapse across the entire financial system, requiring government … | | [[Tool Use]] | AI / capability / architecture | Names the ability of AI models to invoke external tools — calculators, search engines, databases, APIs, code interpreters — rather than relying solely on internal knowledge, transforming the model … | | [[Totalism]] | cults | Lifton's overarching concept; total vs. ambient totalism | | [[Tradecraft]] | information warfare / intelligence / meta-term | Cold War US/UK in-service vocabulary; meta-term covering HUMINT / SIGINT / cyber / cover-and-deception / financial / info-ops sub-domains; carries doctrinal-tradition signal under national modifier (*Russian / American / British / Israeli tradecraft*); old-tradecraft vs. new-tradecraft distinction | | [[Transistor]] | consumer electronics / hardware | The microscopic on/off switch — the atom of computing | | [[Troll Farms]] | disinformation / information warfare / russia | Saint Petersburg IRA template (55 Savushkina ~2013–2023); Savchuk infiltration / Mueller February 2018 indictment / Senate Intel Vol 2; global proliferation (China Wumao / Iran / India BJP IT Cell / [[Saudi Arabia]] / Philippines / Brazil *Gabinete do Ódio* / Mexico Peñabots); modest direct-persuasion + larger structural-degradation effect | | [[Typosquatting]] | cybersecurity / online fraud / brand abuse | Names the practice of registering domain names that are deliberate misspellings or near-variants of legitimate sites, in order to capture users who mistype a URL or click a look-alike link | | [[Ubermensch]] | authoritarianism / philosophy | Nietzsche 1883; *[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]*; contested afterlife from Nazi distortion through contemporary dissident-right vitalist appropriation | | [[Undue Influence]] | cults | The legal/psychological umbrella concept | | [[Unilateralism]] | politics / international relations | Describes a state acting alone in international affairs without seeking agreement or consensus from allies or international institutions | | [[Unrestricted Warfare]] | information warfare / Chinese military doctrine | Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui 1999 PLA treatise (超限战); warfare transcending the military domain into economic, financial, legal, network, psychological, ecological dimensions; [[Gulf War]] as catalyst; Three Warfares (三战) doctrine descended from it; Bannon appropriation for anti-China populism | | [[Upcoding]] | healthcare / insurance / fraud | Names the practice of recording more or more-severe diagnoses than warranted to extract higher reimbursement — the central fraud allegation of the Medicare Advantage era | | [[USB-C]] | consumer electronics / connectivity | Universal connector; the EU mandate that moved a reluctant Apple — a regulatory-power case study | | [[Useful Idiot]] | politics / disinformation / influence operations | Names a person who unwittingly advances a political cause — typically an authoritarian or adversarial one — without fully understanding the cause they are serving or the degree to which they are being instrumentalized | | [[Vendor Lock-In]] | economics | The condition where a customer depends on a single vendor's products or services to such a degree that switching to a competitor would be prohibitively expensive, technically complex, or operationally disruptive | | [[Vertical of Power]] | information warfare / russia / governance | Russian *вертикаль власти*; Putin's own coinage 2000; top-down chain-of-command institutional reforms (federal districts 2000, Federation Council 2000, gubernatorial-election abolition 2004); formal-institutional counterpart to *sistema*'s informal layer; brittleness critique (COVID, Wagner, Kursk) | | [[Vibe Coding]] | AI / software development / community | Names the practice of building software by describing what you want to an AI coding assistant and accepting the output without fully understanding it — framing programming as an intent-communication … | | [[Viral Misinformation]] | disinformation / network science / media studies | Vosoughi-Roy-Aral *Science* 2018 (MIT Media Lab); false content spreads faster, farther, deeper than true on Twitter across all topic categories; human-share behavior the principal driver (not bots); novelty + emotional-activation mechanisms; 2020 pandemic-era natural experiment; structural challenge to fact-checking-after-the-fact strategy | | [[Virginia Slave Codes of 1705]] | white supremacy / slavery / colonial law | The 1705 Virginia General Assembly act consolidating four decades of piecemeal statute into a single legal architecture of racial chattel slavery | | [[Vlast]] | information warfare / russia / political culture | Russian *власть*; compound semantic range (*power* + *the authorities* + *the power-holders as estate*); load-bearing root in Russian political-cultural vocabulary; *Russia and the vlast* dichotomy from Herzen through Navalny; American right's *real America vs. the regime* as structural analog | | [[Volcel]] | misogyny / manosphere / online subculture | Manosphere-and-incel-ecosystem sub-vocabulary designating an individual who is sexually-or-romantically uninvolved by choice rather than involuntary circumstance — typically positioned in the … | | [[Wallpaper Effect]] | disinformation / media studies / propaganda | Ailes-era Fox News programming-discipline as canonical case; coordinated saturation across nominally-independent surfaces; Sinclair Broadcast Group local-TV variant; cousin to but distinct from echo chamber / network propaganda / Manufacturing Consent; [[Media Matters for America]] as the monitoring infrastructure | | [[Wash Trading]] | cryptocurrency / market structure / fraud | Names the practice of simultaneously buying and selling the same asset to fabricate volume — the foundational market manipulation that inflates crypto exchange rankings, fakes liquidity, and makes … | | [[Watering Hole]] | surveillance / cybersecurity / attack-vector | Cybersecurity-attack-vector designation for a class of cyber-intrusion attacks in which the attacker identifies a website or online resource that members of a target organization or community … | | [[Weaponized]] | media / political rhetoric / institutional distrust | Reframes government law enforcement and regulatory action as political persecution; "weaponized DOJ/FBI/IRS," "two-tiered justice," "lawfare" vocabulary family; [[Jim Jordan]] subcommittee institutionalization; pre-delegitimizes legal accountability; projection problem | | [[Wedge Issue]] | politics / campaign strategy / coalition management | Names a political issue selected not because it urgently needs resolution but because it fractures the opposing coalition — forcing opponents to take a public position that alienates some portion of their base | | [[Welfare Queen]] | politics / social policy / racial politics | Compresses an entire argument against public assistance into a single imagined figure — a Black woman fraudulently enriching herself on benefits — so that opposition to the welfare state can be … | | [[Whisper Campaign]] | disinformation / political dirty tricks / rumor | Pre-internet political-attack vocabulary at least to 1800 Adams-Jefferson cycle; [[Lee Atwater]] 1988 ([[Willie Horton]] / Dukakis) + [[Karl Rove]] 2000 (McCain illegitimate-Black-daughter South Carolina) canonical case studies; digital-era continuation through anonymous social-media seeding + encrypted-channel chain messages + push-poll evolution; strategic logic preserved despite tech change | | [[White Terrorism]] | disinformation / political violence / racial-extremism | Post-1995 American empirical-record (Oklahoma City, Charleston, Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, Christchurch, El Paso, Buffalo); the canonical-pattern of post-2015 cases; sustained right-wing vocabulary-politics to redefine / obscure the category; 2009 DHS Daryl Johnson report withdrawal; *both sides* / *false flag* / *lone wolf* / RMVE-substitution operations; 2025+ federal counter-terror priority reversal | | [[White-pilled]] | authoritarianism / dissident right / online subculture | Names a cultivated state of optimism, hope, and restoration-belief within dissident-right and adjacent online subcultures — the explicit counterpart to being Black-pilled | | [[Wi-Fi]] | consumer electronics / connectivity | Local wireless networking; neutral, tied to broadband-access and digital-divide questions | | [[Wiper Malware]] | cybersecurity / cyberwarfare / state sabotage | Names malware built to destroy — to irreversibly erase or corrupt data, boot records, or firmware — rather than to steal, spy, or extort | | [[Woke]] | media / political rhetoric / culture war | AAVE survival vocabulary (1930s) → BLM self-identification (2014) → right-wing universal dismissal term (2021+); Rufo strategic-labeling method; "woke mind virus" (Musk); anti-woke legislation (DeSantis); the most consequential vocabulary battle of 2020–2024; definitional paradox (undefinability as feature) | | [[Word Salad]] | authoritarianism / political rhetoric | Clinical-psychiatric vocabulary repurposed for political-discourse analysis; cognitive-decline / unconventional-rhetoric / strategic-incoherence interpretive split | | [[World Model]] | AI / technical / philosophy | Names the contested claim that large language models develop internal representations of the world — not just statistical patterns of text — making it the central battleground in the debate over … | | [[Writ of Mandamus]] | politics | A writ of mandamus is a court order compelling a government official to perform a duty the law requires of them | | [[Yellow Journalism]] | disinformation / media history | 1890s Hearst/Pulitzer NYC newspaper wars; sensationalism-over-accuracy | | [[Zero-Day]] | cybersecurity / vulnerability / exploitation | Names a software vulnerability unknown to the vendor (and therefore unpatched) at the moment it is discovered or exploited — so defenders have had 'zero days' to fix it | | [[Zero-Shot]] | AI / machine learning / evaluation | Names the ability of AI models to perform tasks they were never explicitly trained for — the metric for general capability that distinguishes foundation models from task-specific systems | ## Maintenance When adding a term: file it in the right subfolder, add a row to the A — Z table, and add it to the matching lexicon.