Matt Webb, explaining the thread @Interconnected
I tend to record words that…
▪ were everywhere and seemed perfectly normal at some point in the past, but now they’ve lapsed
▪ feel novel today, but have a chance of being commonplace in the future – and maybe I can predict which ones
▪ represent an idea that was, once upon a time, novel enough that it required naming, although now we wouldn’t bother to do so
▪ put a name on an idea that hadn’t occurred to me
▪ stand in for a much grander idea
▪ lead to a surprising idea
▪ are big in my corner of the world, though perhaps not for anyone else
▪ dominate the public discourse right now, temporarily, and we all bandy around the word as if it actually means something, but it doesn’t and it’s super weird given any kind of distance at all
▪ feel pleasant to say.
Sometimes I read over the list, random access style, just to remind myself of forgotten thoughts. Each word is a bookmark into a little cascade of concepts in my brain.
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Feb 27, 2017
Storm Doris. Mimecom. Cloudbleed. Athleisure. Cromwell. H7N9. Trappist-1
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Feb 22, 2018
The Humanity Star. Wuxia. Beowulf. Remoaner. Lord Haw-Haw. Johnny Appleseed. Goldilocks Zone. Veni vidi vici
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Mar 17, 2018
Escort mission. General Magic. The devil's hatband. Inclusion rider. Pick n mix. Protein. Yak shaving
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Apr 11, 2018
Cold War. Gold master. Algohol. Cry4. Novichok agents. OAP. Cockroach milk. Otherkin
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Apr 27, 2018
Nociception. The Krebs cycle. Gini coefficient. Keiretsu. Box set. Vanguardism. i-motif structure. Incel. The Fourth Estate
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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May 14, 2018
The Age of Aquarius. The Pearl River Delta. Gammon. Hostile environment. The Invisible College. Afrofuturism. Vaporwave
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jun 2, 2018
Concorde. Laurel and Hardy. Two and twenty. Abilene paradox. Card clash. Sub fusc. C. Nocoiner
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jun 25, 2018
Operation Popeye. Shock and awe. Fire and forget. Slash and burn. Fingers of instantiation. Trapdoor function
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Aug 23, 2018
Wear Sunscreen. Norwich Pharmacal Order. VAR. The God Particle. Max fac. Du-reformen. Space Force. Flop account. Raubwirtschaft
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Sep 6, 2018
Brand loyalty. PC LOAD LETTER. It’s coming home. WASP. Long Vac. State machine. Yellowhammer
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Oct 1, 2018
Monkeypox. Skype White. Magnetohydrodynamics. Total cost of ownership. The Brandt Line. Runaway convention
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 1, 2018
The Goblin. IceCube 140611. Late Heavy Bombardment. Latent space. Asgard. Hexatic phase. Telecommute
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 30, 2018
Chabudua. Side hustle. The Middle Kingdom. Lychgate. Mojibake. Agitprop. Brain drain. NaN
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jan 11, 2019
Damp squib. The default mode network. Too Many Cooks. Dwarsligger. 51% Attack. Shirts versus skins
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Feb 20, 2019
Imbolc. Polar vortex. Diffractive deep neural network. Bob-a-job. Isostatic rebound. Doggerland. This is for everyone
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Mar 19, 2019
Erskine May. Pleuston. Momo Challenge. Memory hole. Andon Cord. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Apr 4, 2019
Operation Redfold. First world problem. hunter2. Landline. 2,147,483,647. Speaker Denison's rule. Puppyslug
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Apr 26, 2019
The four minute warning. Cunningham’s Law. Food processor. Graphic equaliser. Luther Blissett. Cattywampus. HeH+. #FICTIONALEVENT
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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May 20, 2019
Potlatch. Dial tone. Cyberspace. Digital transformation. Genpop. Schelling Point. Ouroboros. Hopepunk. The yee haw agenda
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jun 3, 2019
Stochastic terrorism. Hauntology. Spontaneous human combustion. Fnord. Ghost Work. Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior. Mushroom suit
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jun 16, 2019
Great Red Spot. The Bermuda Triangle. Acid rain. Packet loss. Refillery. Landline. P-zombie. 23114, 584, 46931
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jun 27, 2019
Teegarden's Star. Everyday carry. Whisker fatigue. Yeet. The klept. Dick Whittington. Retail therapy. Rising of the lights
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jul 8, 2019
Tohuwabohu. Spice zombie. Attention Correction. Decacorn. Blandlands. Lysenkoism. What, me worry? Ylem
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jul 30, 2019
Dragonfly. Political correctness. Dagen H. Döstädning. Flygskam. Frank’s sign. Iconoclasm
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Aug 14, 2019
Webmaster. Potus. Excorporation. Horizontal gene transfer. Black hole. Twinfluencers. ASMRtist
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Aug 30, 2019
Overhead projector. News theatre. Flash Player. Techlash. Comptometrist. Outriders. Chesterton's fence
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Sep 10, 2019
Terraform. Ouija board. Magic Robot. Self-coup. Shrinkflation. Mods and rockers. Bouncy castle. Floppy disk
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Sep 26, 2019
Prorogue. Upsum. Barmy Army. Fakeaways. Kardashev scale. Deadname. Red teaming. Type B fun
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Oct 8, 2019
Black start. Maillard reaction. Spice zombie. Inbox Zero. 77th Brigade. Coal. Reverie. 0th world
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Oct 24, 2019
Lord Protector. Legerdemain. Bum-sculpting. Heavy dog. Demographic engineering. Kilgore Trout. Just a band
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 6, 2019
Penguin diagram. Solastalgia. Trantor. Floating point. Total Perspective Vortex. CRISPR. Eat the rich
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 15, 2019
Chillax. Fiducial marker. Free market. WYSIWYG. Nerd sniping. Dopamine fasting. Blue screen of death
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 27, 2019
Seenzoned. Sand theft. Belt and Road Initiative. Cosmic ordering. Wasm. Low poly. Generation ship
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Dec 19, 2019
Narrative Violation. State Capture. Vampire facial. Microblading. Ansible. They. Perineum sunning. Ethnonationalism
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jan 28, 2020
John Company. Iridium flare. Photobombing. Decolonisation. MMXX. Prepper. Cancel culture. Remainer. The Local Group
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Feb 8, 2020
Frankpledge. Normcore. Factory reset. Coronavirus. Rawthentic. Mesofact. Walking wounded. Augenmusik
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Feb 27, 2020
Straight edge. Dunning. Lazy Susan. Fruit wall. COVID-19. Sovereign citizen. Dark kitchen. 77th Brigade
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Mar 12, 2020
Pandemic. Self-isolate. Social distancing. Trolley problem. Hungry gap. The jackpot. New normal
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jun 2, 2020
Ecofascism. Webinar. Hamsterkäufe. Doomscrolling. Mundane AU. The Cool Zone. Ave atque vale. Black Lives Matter
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jul 14, 2020
Skin hunger. Groutfit. Spacepower. Roko’s Basilisk. Stakhanovite. Cancel culture. NEOWISE. The Chorleywood Bread Process
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Oct 25, 2020
Collab houses. Mankad. Phosphine. Chaos theory. Kent Access Permit. Carcinisation. Capitalist realism
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Dec 3, 2020
K-shaped recovery. Dual power. Primordial soup. The Sea People. Abuwtiyuw. Sohcahtoa. Herobrine
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jan 7, 2021
Noclip mode. The ecumene. The 1954 Greada Treaty. Isles of Wonder. The Odic force. Sedition. Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Feb 19, 2021
Eugene Goodman. Cryptic northern refugia. Meatspace. Fossil fuel. Dress-down Fridays. Gwalb. The Omega Point
Hiraeth. Probiv. Technosignature. Meme stock. Cloud chamber. Bremermann's limit. Abyssal plain. Xennial
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May 31, 2021
Kondratiev waves. Cerebration. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Oculesics. Non-fungible token. Mutuals. Real person fiction. Cryptoterrestrial. Charlie bit my finger
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jul 2, 2021
The Fourth Turning. Ongepotchket. Antikythera mechanism. The trillies. Moon-Watcher. Wet-bulb temperature. Cobot. Ascupart
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Aug 19, 2021
Megamachine. Entropocene. Metaverse. Catallaxy. Tsundoku. Gesamtkunstwerk. Dagong shige. The Wood Between the Worlds
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 15, 2021
De-extinction. Mumble-tub. Exaptation. Stagflation. Microdosing. Amistics. Border Gateway Protocol. The Discourse. Nemo dat quod non habet
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Jan 5, 2022
Hydraulic empire. International Klein Blue. Alcubierre drive. Phantom time hypothesis. Omicron. The Chicxulub impactor. Duckworth-Lewis Method. Weird flex but ok
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jul 4, 2022
Gijinka. Prompt engineering. Sverdrup. Horny on main. Lord Haw Haw. Vibe shift. Cyber sovereignty. The plutes. Algospeak. The Columbian exchange. Crungus. Pre-pandy. Toxic positivity
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Sep 3, 2022
Assault sorcery. Hopium. Solastalgia. Hunger stones. Culture war. Maga. The Winter of Discontent
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Nov 3, 2022
Telling the bees. The Queue. Dynamic Island. Mankad. Mutual assured destruction. Shedding. Gelassenheit. Systempunkt
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Mar 24, 2023
Silurian hypothesis. The Carrington Event. Cozzie livs. Greenwashing. Custard mammals. Polycrisis. Large language model. Winchester drive
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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May 16, 2023
Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Shoggoth. TESCREAL. You-Gotta-Believe-Me. Netprov. Robber baron
Matt Webb genmon.fyi
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Jul 24, 2024
Ozempic. LK-99. Entelechy. Chronowashing. Apricate. SOTA. POSIWID. Representation engineering