I went down a rabbit hole the other day on Batesian mimicry. #NewWord Fascinating stuff.

Storage is truly a fundamental change for grid mgmt. The continuing drop in battery cost is amazing. #miracle

The analogy is not perfect, but I tell telecom folk: the impact is like the xsition from ckt switching to packet switching.

#NewWord = “vast, fundamental sea change” 👏

#NewWord “honk and wave” 😁

Organic Rankine cycle - Wikipedia

#NewWord ORC Turbine 🙂 for geothermal power en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic...

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Yes. This. Me is This. This is Me!

Coffee Talk (Saturday Night Live) - Wikipedia

#newword verklempt, adj. Overcome with emotion; flustered, nervous.

While "farklemt" is genuine Yiddish, this version of the word was apparently popularised into US slang by a SNL sketch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_...

#newword lorica (in full, lorica prayer) n. A prayer recited for protection.

"Lorica" is the Greek word for "breastplate", likely referring to Ephesians 6

#newword cockade n. A decorative knot of ribbon, such as on a rosette

#newword ramify, v. Form branches or shoots (botanically or metaphorically)

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AI Prompt: Make up a new English word to describe something that is both funny and sad.

My response: Tragical? Doomerous? Funtastrophe?

AI response:
Suggested Word: "Saddelicious"

Definition: A blend of "sad" and "delicious," this term describes a situation, story, or experience that evokes […]

#NewWord “DEFR” = Dispatchable Emission-Free Resource

An acronym used in the NYISO Resource Outlook for the unknown tech & system that can be used to cover the dunkelflaute in a clean energy grid. (My words.)

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I now love the #NewWord "mediocre business person". And I think I need to practice a bunch of Rep. Casten's talking points. I've heard him make these points before, but he keeps getting better.👏 #TalkAboutClimate.

Clean Energy = Cheap Energy

Thank you @seancasten.bsky.social

#OnWeGo

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So cool.

#NewWord “chromophore minerals”

#newword syrette, n. A single-use injectable, comprising dose and needle

#newword meldrop n. A drip of snot hanging from the nose

#newword tambour, n. A cabinet with slatted doors that roll up or to the side

A new #contranym / #Janusword; to trump (lower case) is to play a card which is elevated above its usual rank [in card games], to #Trump (upper case) is to undoubtedly believe that you gain an advantage, but actually shooting yourself in the foot #donaldtrump #donaldjtrump #oxforddictionary #newword

#NewWord: “Congressional overspeech”. (See below.)

Sounds like what we need right about now.

We get 365 days each year. What are you going to do with yours? ##newyear #newword #grace #savingschallenges #saving #possibilities

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#newword solmisation, n. Musical scale singing with the "do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do" mnemonics.
#newword solfège, n. Ditto.
#newword sol-fa, n. Ditto.

[three names, bit greedy]

#newword pyx, n. In Roman Catholicism, the small, round box used to hold the host (AKA communion wafer).

#newword brin, n. One of the radiating sticks of a fan.
#newword panache, n. One of the longer and/or wider end pieces of a fan.

Definfluencing (verb): To post potential new-word definitions to social media, composed of comedic invention but largely of viral hope. 😆

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Doornament: Things like wreaths that people occasionally hang up on the entrance to their homes.

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"AI Slop" Isn’t a Critique. It’s a Defense Mechanism. The term “AI slop” is increasingly used to dismiss artificial intelligence. This essay argues it functions as a selective epistemic slur—applied to machines, never to humans.

Humans produce oceans of banality every day. We call it “content.”

When AI does it, we call it “slop.”

That asymmetry is doing real cultural work—and it isn’t quality control.

#AISlop #Slop #MerriamWebster #NewWord #Dictionary

#newword spuriosity, n. Spuriousness (a rare and indeed spurious synonym) (autological or autonym)

#newword petiole n. The stalk bit at the bottom of a leaf 🌿

#newword patristics n. The theological study of early Christian writers (AKA the Church Fathers).

Poster titled “Sim-pathy,” created by visual artist JMMYS (jmmys.nl). A human interacts with an AI interface, capturing the moment of instinctively saying “sorry” to a machine, a blend of human emotion and digital systems that reflects the emerging idea of “sim-pathy.”

SIM-pathy:: maybe next year’s Word of the Year.
That moment you catch yourself saying “oh sorry, I meant…” to an AI.
Why are we apologizing to machines and what does that say about us?
A new kind of empathy is emerging. SIM-pathy.

#AI #sims #digitalculture #artwork #newword #merriamwebster