edward: concepts Concepts

curb cut effect — 1 books
first published 21 Oct 2025 added 17 Nov 2023

dictator envy — 1 books
first published 1 Jul 2025 added 6 Sep 2025 politics

Founder mode — 1 books
first published 19 May 2025 added 21 Feb 2025 business

DeepSeek — 5 books
first published 15 Jan 2025 added 15 Nov 2025

A chatbot developed by DeepSeek company

generative artificial intelligence

Enshittification — 9 books
first published 7 Jan 2025 added 25 Oct 2025

systematic decline in quality of online platforms over time driven by greed

tech

+3

Testocalypse — 1 books
first published 29 Oct 2024 added 6 Jan 2025

Clean-Tech Bubble — 1 books
first published 29 Oct 2024 added 7 Jan 2025

Bibby Stockholm — 2 books
first published 10 Jul 2024 added 27 Oct 2023

a floating hotel used to accommodate workers in offshore locations

Highways to Boulevards — 1 books
first published 2 Apr 2024 added 23 Feb 2025

Ashish Vaswani — 6 books
first published 20 Mar 2024 added 10 Sep 2023 generative artificial intelligence person

ActivityPub — 3 books
first published 13 Feb 2024 added 12 Jun 2023

decentralised social networking protocol

direct-to-physician marketing — 1 books
first published 16 Jan 2024 added 30 Dec 2024 opioid epidemic

foundation-industrial complex — 1 books
first published 13 Nov 2023 added 19 Jan 2024

main character syndrome — 3 books
first published 13 Nov 2023 added 18 Jan 2024

reinforcement learning from human feedback — 8 books
first published 4 Sep 2023 added 27 Dec 2023

variant of reinforcement learning

generative artificial intelligence

+2

super zip — 2 books
first published 21 Aug 2023 added 28 Dec 2023

Caroline Ellison — 7 books
first published 17 Jul 2023 added 15 Aug 2024 person cryptocurrency

+1

Alameda Research — 9 books
first published 10 Jul 2023 added 15 Aug 2024

quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm

cryptocurrency company

+3

Blake Lemoine — 9 books
first published 10 Jul 2023 added 27 Nov 2023 generative artificial intelligence person

+3

NOVA classification — 2 books
first published 26 Jun 2023 added 24 Sep 2023

a food classification system categorising items by the extent and purpose of their processing

friendshoring — 2 books
first published 14 Jun 2023 added 6 Oct 2023

the practice of outsourcing to trusted countries

Sam Bankman-Fried — 35 books
first published 5 Jun 2023 added 18 Nov 2022

disgraced founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange

person cryptocurrency

+29

FTX — 36 books
first published 5 Jun 2023 added 9 Aug 2023

failed cryptocurrency exchange

cryptocurrency

+30

Black Swan Protection Protocol — 1 books
first published 5 Jun 2023 added 5 Aug 2023

a financial risk management strategy designed to protect against unpredictable, rare events

ChatGPT — 56 books
first published 11 May 2023 added 3 Mar 2023

a conversational model developed by OpenAI, built on the GPT architecture

generative artificial intelligence

+50

Piers Corbyn — 4 books
first published 27 Mar 2023 added 6 Oct 2023

a British weather forecaster and climate change sceptic, also known for his political activism

person

Rebecca Giblin — 5 books
first published 26 Sep 2022 added 11 Dec 2025

author and researcher, Monash University, Melbourne

person

GitHub removed activity streaks — 1 books
first published 14 Sep 2022 added 23 Aug 2023

GitHub discontinued the feature that displayed continuous activity streaks, often seen as a controversial metric

Ron Watkins — 5 books
first published 5 Sep 2022 added 3 Sep 2024

American conspiracy theorist and imageboard administrator

person

Tim Haywood — 3 books
first published 20 Jul 2022 added 13 Sep 2022

a finance professional who faced controversy for his role in investment management

finance person

Pacto Ecosocial del Sur — 1 books
first published 4 Jul 2022 added 29 Sep 2022

an initiative aimed at creating a socio-ecological pact in Latin American countries

Osborne effect — 1 books
first published 18 Apr 2022 added 6 Jul 2022

a phenomenon where a company prematurely announcing a future product harms sales of current products

The Great Resignation — 14 books
first published 11 Apr 2022 added 29 Apr 2022

a trend of a significant number of workers resigning from their jobs, especially noticeable in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

+8

plyscraper — 2 books
first published 11 Apr 2022 added 3 Nov 2022

a skyscraper made primarily of timber, especially cross-laminated timber

global fertility crisis — 2 books
first published 22 Mar 2022 added 6 Jan 2025

stochastic parrot — 18 books
first published 15 Mar 2022 added 27 Mar 2025

metaphor to describe the theory that large language models, though able to generate plausible language, do not understand the meaning of the language they process

generative artificial intelligence

+12

sheep dike — 1 books
first published 25 Jan 2022 added 12 Aug 2023

a structure used to contain sheep within a specific area, typically made of earth or stone

Ashli Babbitt — 7 books
first published 15 Nov 2021 added 27 Oct 2023

an insurrectionist killed during the 2021 United States Capitol attack

person

+1

sovereign citizen movement — 5 books
first published 15 Nov 2021 added 22 Dec 2025

anti-government conspiracy theory

politics

polycrisis — 8 books
first published 27 Oct 2021 added 31 Oct 2025

Synchronisation, mutual acceleration and amplification of interwoven crises

opioid epidemic climate change

+2

lab leak theory — 7 books
first published 20 Sep 2021 added 27 Aug 2025

proposed hypothesis on the origin of SARS-CoV-2

COVID-19 pandemic

+1

rubber-tired gantry crane — 1 books
first published 13 Sep 2021 added 18 Nov 2021

a mobile crane used in intermodal operations to ground or stack containers

GPT-4 — 25 books
first published 29 Aug 2021 added 5 Oct 2023

the fourth iteration of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer, developed by OpenAI

generative artificial intelligence

+19

Vivek Ramaswamy — 7 books
first published 16 Aug 2021 added 1 Apr 2024 person politician

+1

double empathy problem — 3 books
first published 2 Aug 2021 added 14 Jun 2023

the mutual misunderstanding that occurs between people of different dispositional outlooks or cultural backgrounds

Rainbow capitalism — 1 books
first published 2 Aug 2021 added 24 Jun 2022

the incorporation of the LGBT movement and sexual diversity to capitalism and the market economy, often critiqued for diluting the political agenda of LGBT rights

wallstreetbets — 14 books
first published 2 Aug 2021 added 15 Aug 2024

subreddit dedicated to stock market and options trading

finance

+8

meme stock — 22 books
first published 2 Aug 2021 added 28 Oct 2021

a stock that gains popularity among retail investors through social media

finance

+16

debanked — 1 books
first published 26 Jul 2021 added 2 Nov 2023

individuals or businesses that are excluded from traditional banking services

Greensill Capital — 10 books
first published 14 Jul 2021 added 12 Sep 2022

a financial services company that specialised in supply chain finance and faced bankruptcy in 2021

finance company

+4

Kyle Rittenhouse — 10 books
first published 7 Jun 2021 added 27 Dec 2023

former suspect in the killing of two rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin

person

+4

Jensen Huang — 9 books
first published 15 Mar 2021 added 7 Jun 2025

American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia

person

+3

David Vincenzetti — 2 books
first published 9 Feb 2021 added 7 Aug 2023

founder of Hacking Team, a company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities

person

lab leak — 19 books
first published 15 Jan 2021 added 5 Oct 2023

a theory suggesting that a virus accidentally escaped from a laboratory, often cited in discussions about COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic

+13

Low Traffic Neighbourhood — 1 books
first published 15 Jan 2021 added 27 Feb 2025

UK schemes to stop rat running through residential streets

New Urbanism

Changpeng Zhao — 9 books
first published 15 Dec 2020 added 18 Mar 2025

Canadian businessman

person

+3

Bertram Gilfoyle — 1 books
first published 15 Dec 2020 added 13 Feb 2022

a character from the TV show Silicon Valley, known for his expertise in computer systems

fictional character

flooding the zone with shit — 10 books
first published 15 Oct 2020 added 6 Sep 2025 politics

+4

15-minute city — 6 books
first published 5 Oct 2020 added 9 Jun 2023

an urban planning concept where all essential services are within a 15-minute walk or bike ride

New Urbanism

State of the Map conference — 1 books
first published 14 Sep 2020 added 29 Oct 2023

series of annual OpenStreetMap conferences

data philanthropy — 1 books
first published 14 Sep 2020 added 28 Jun 2023

the practice of companies sharing data for public good or social causes

defund the police — 33 books
first published 1 Sep 2020 added 2 Nov 2021

a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources

politics

+27

Rishi Sunak — 39 books
first published 1 Sep 2020 added 24 Oct 2022

British Conservative Party politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020

person politician

+33

contact tracing app — 13 books
first published 14 Aug 2020 added 14 Aug 2023

mobile application used to identify and alert individuals who have come into contact with an infected person

+7

Charlie Kirk — 6 books
first published 14 Jul 2020 added 18 Jan 2026

American political activist (1993-2025)

person

cryptocurrency bubble — 12 books
first published 1 Jun 2020 added 5 Nov 2023

speculative bubble of cryptocurrency assets

cryptocurrency

+6

School Strike for Climate — 8 books
first published 18 May 2020 added 29 Sep 2022

a global movement where students skip school to protest for action on climate change, inspired by Greta Thunberg

climate change

+2

data flywheel — 4 books
first published 11 May 2020 added 12 Oct 2023

a business model that leverages data to create a virtuous cycle of improved products, user engagement, and data collection

George Floyd — 167 books
first published 14 Apr 2020 added 27 Oct 2021

Black man killed in Minneapolis in 2020 during an arrest, sparking worldwide protests against police brutality

person

+161

Gavin Belson — 5 books
first published 13 Apr 2020 added 13 Feb 2022

a fictional tech CEO in the television series Silicon Valley

fictional character

anti-bias training — 5 books
first published 6 Apr 2020 added 27 Oct 2021

training programmes designed to challenge and address unconscious biases in the workplace or other environments.

gain-of-function research — 12 books
first published 24 Mar 2020 added 27 Aug 2025

field of bio-medical research

COVID-19 pandemic

+6

Julie Ann Horvath — 1 books
first published 25 Feb 2020 added 25 Nov 2021

a software designer and advocate for diversity in tech, known for her experiences at GitHub

person

deplatforming — 26 books
first published 25 Feb 2020 added 17 Aug 2023

the action of preventing someone from using social media platforms, typically due to hate speech or other policy violations

politics

+20

Trad Wife — 2 books
first published 20 Feb 2020 added 18 Jan 2026

flight shame / flygskam — 12 books
first published 30 Jan 2020 added 6 Oct 2024 climate change

+6

GPT-3 — 38 books
first published 15 Jan 2020 added 29 Apr 2022

the third iteration of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer developed by OpenAI, known for its language understanding and generation capabilities

generative artificial intelligence

+32

lockdown — 259 books
first published 15 Jan 2020 added 5 Jun 2022

an emergency protocol that restricts movement, often implemented during public health crises like pandemics

+253

McDonald’s-ification — 1 books
first published 15 Jan 2020 added 3 Apr 2024

Generative Pre-trained Transformer — 16 books
first published 15 Jan 2020 added 11 Dec 2025 generative artificial intelligence

+10

BIPOC — 29 books
first published 9 Jan 2020 added 27 Oct 2021

an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, used to describe individuals from non-white racial and ethnic groups

+23

loot box — 7 books
first published 5 Nov 2019 added 6 Oct 2024

redeemable virtual item for video game prizes

+1

Keith Raniere — 6 books
first published 16 Sep 2019 added 16 Nov 2021

founder of NXIVM, convicted of federal crimes including sex trafficking

person

crypto winter — 7 books
first published 8 Sep 2019 added 17 May 2025 cryptocurrency

+1

Andy George — 2 books
first published 4 Sep 2019 added 6 Dec 2023 person

Attention Is All You Need — 11 books
first published 14 Jul 2019 added 10 Sep 2023

AI scientific article about the transformer architecture, published in June 2017

generative artificial intelligence

+5

Boeing 737 MAX — 39 books
first published 14 Jul 2019 added 15 Oct 2020

the fourth generation of the Boeing 737, a narrow-body airliner manufactured by Boeing

+33

LuLaRoe — 4 books
first published 17 Jun 2019 added 17 Aug 2023

a multi-level marketing company selling women's clothing, known for legal controversies

Ajeya Cotra — 7 books
first published 12 Jun 2019 added 31 Aug 2024 person

+1

Gail Bradbrook — 5 books
first published 12 Jun 2019 added 5 Aug 2023

co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion environmental movement

person climate change

Peter Beck: Rocket Lab — 4 books
first published 10 Jun 2019 added 31 May 2023

founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, a private aerospace manufacturer and small satellite launch service provider. The company is known for its Electron rocket, designed to launch small satellites into orbit at a relatively low cost. Rocket Lab aims to make space more accessible, particularly for commercial satellite operators

person space