25 to 50 Large Birds

 A bit of a detour from the usual after an unplanned hiatus. Brought to you by a new website I recently discovered, which generates new words based on AI. A good portion of the words themselves seem real enough, but the AI-generated definitions don't necessarily make much sense and are not etymologically accurate. Another feature of this website is producing AI-generated definitions of (real or fake) words you input. Here is a selection of words it generated:   eotrophy : the state of being subject to eotrophy; "these cells are in an eotrophy of differentiation" My definition:a fancy synonym for breakfast; eo meaning the first appearance of something (Greek) and -trophy referring to nourishment (or growth/development, as in atrophy) smashbox : a shop selling goods from a variety of manufacturers, typically on the basis of limited inventory; "a smashbox market" Note: this is actually the name of a makeup brand that does exist bozoism:  inability to resist conven

Despite not posting as frequently as I initially intended, this issue of interesting words is a pretty substantial one so I think it makes up a bit for any reduced frequency. asceticism : abstaining from (all) indulgences/"worldly pleasures" as a demonstration of self-discipline, particularly for religious reasons. Giving something up for Lent is a small form of asceticism. [The etymology of Lent is that it comes from a word meaning springtime because it occurs in the spring prior to Easter]   anarchaeology : "the clandestine visitation of archaeological sites, a branch of urban exploration alongside draining or roof-topping.... Anarchaeologists don't damage or loot sites ― we just want a closer look before redevelopment destroy them."   The etymology of this sense of the word seems to come from this article . They did some anarchaeology by non-destructively breaking into the vacant shopping mall to observe, photograph and admire the architecture. (word sour

More words into the void.  Nekonomics ( ネコノミクス ; nekonomikusu) : a Japanese term describing the positive economic impact of cats . Cat cafes, cat islands, cat mascots, etc. The cat cafe runs on the principle of nekonomics. Nekonomics was at play when he chose to patronize the liquor store that has a cat.  vestigial building : a neologism that I came up with. It is a more elegant term to describe vacant buildings, which still exist but are no longer used/occupied. The vestigial building was architecturally significant, though threatened with demolition and redevelopment. Ideally, vestigial buildings of architectural significance could be renovated or restored and adaptively reused . Vestigial buildings lined the main street of the ghost town. Economic decay in the area caused the number of vestigial buildings to increase as businesses closed. [example of a vestigial building I saw recently] Although it appeared to be a vestigial building, it was actually just the kenopsia of seeing an

Some interesting words for the weekend. miasma : "a highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor" or more abstractly "an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere which surrounds or emanates from something." Originally, miasmas were thought to come from decomposing matter that caused bad smells and therefore caused disease. That particular miasma theory has been disproven, although the concept of diseases spreading through the air is something that does actually occur.  To protect oneself from covid-infested miasmas, stay away from crowded indoor places where people do not wear masks. Effective ventilation systems can help decrease miasmas indoors. When the corpse flower bloomed , it produced a miasma.   necro-tweeting : Tweeting something that is rather old or out of date, particularly without noting that it is not particularly current. Tweeting about something I wrote five years ago could be considered necro-tweeting.  pavement surgeon , street kintsugi : in reference

These are turning out to be a bit more sporadic than I'd originally planned/hoped, but in any case, here are some more interesting words.  neologism : a newly invented word or expression. Some of the words featured in these posts are neologisms created by me. Skyrodemichor is a neologism to describe the smell of concrete after rain. petro-masculinity : "the relationship between fossil fuels and white patriarchal rule." How traditional ideas of masculinity are intertwined with fossil fuel's societal hegemony. The neighbor who drives an obnoxiously large and noise-polluting truck is demonstrating the concept of petro-masculinity. A tangential effect of petro-masculinity ( from this newsletter on the topic ) is how men are less likely to recycle because environmentalism is seen as feminine. He eschewed petro-masculinity by choosing to use a bicycle as a primary form of transportation.  palustrine : here we have another word that is somewhat related to water, as with allu

I just read a highly interesting and very fascinating article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a man who used AI to simulate his dead fiancee in a chatbot. This happened to include multiple topics that interest me, such as epistolary formats and the concept of death mixed with AI in a slightly similar scenario to the movie Her , which is one of my favorites.  I suppose I might be an ideal candidate to create an AI chatbot out of because there would be a decent amount of source material to feed into it, so as to better simulate me. I imagine it would be more difficult to accurately capture the voice of someone who is less inclined to communicate at length via writing. Training the AI on text messages from someone who never texts more than fifteen words at a time might not result in  a particularly personalized AI chatbot. That's my theory, at least; though maybe I'm wrong?   Although not explicitly referred to in the article, it made me think about the possibility of paraso