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diff --git a/content/glossary.md b/content/glossary.md index aa49210..d133d5c 100644 --- a/content/glossary.md +++ b/content/glossary.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ _build: * Antisocial media: Online platforms whose mission is to keep users online as long as possible to monetize their data and show them ads. Antisocial media purports to connect people, but its business model is antithetical to human connection. Instead, it tends to cause conflict. * Antitransgenderist: Someone who oppresses or supports the oppression of transgender people. * Child: Someone twelve years of age or less. Calling adolescents and teenagers children is condescending. +* Digital tulips: Cryptocurrency. A reference to tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age. * The disease-spreading party: The Republican party. Republicans blocked federal funding for Covid vaccines and treatment for a partisan win while buying stocks to profit from the deaths. * Disloyalty program: A rewards-based marketing strategy which offers discounts in exchange for sacrificing one's purchasing privacy. Disloyalty programs unfairly reduce the anonymity of every other shopper who isn't signed up. * The exploitation economy: A less neutral-sounding term for the gig economy. @@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ _build: * Pass (away): A euphemism which encourages people to never really come to terms with death. * Planet-roaster: Any entity that advocates policies which worsen global heating. * Police officer: A respectable, hardworking person who doesn't act like a thug. +* Techno-ponzi: Cryptocurrency. * Thug: A badge-and-gun-wielding predator who attacks nonviolent protesters, jails peaceful drug users, harasses the poor, and lies in court to defend other thugs. * The wannabe dictator: Donald Trump. * Worth: Reject the idea that a person's worth is measured by their financial assets. Measuring one's "worth" seems to be motivated by an unhealthy obsession with social status, so I avoid this phrase entirely. |