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Phrase · Cixin Liu - globaloney
Word · Clare Boothe Luce - gogotte
Word · Claude Guillemin - cold prickly
Phrase · Claude Steiner - warm fuzzy
Phrase · Claude Steiner - ludonarrative
Word · Clint Hocking - ludonarrative dissonance
Phrase · Clint Hocking - Substackerati
Word · Clio Chang - at lawyerpoint
Phrase · Cory Doctorow - enshittify
Word · Cory Doctorow - metacrap
Word · Cory Doctorow - Schneier's law
Phrase · Cory Doctorow - whuffie
Word · Cory Doctorow - dooblydoo
Word · Craig Benzine - Zzyzx
Word · Curtis Howe Springer - Cathedral
Word · Curtis Yarvin - hiplet
Word · Damion Stalino - Dilla time
Phrase · Dan Charnas - death grip
Phrase · Dan Savage - monogamish
Word · Dan Savage - deepity
Word · Daniel Dennett - heterophenomenology
Word · Daniel Dennett - intuition pump
Phrase · Daniel Dennett - quine
Word · Daniel Dennett - sphexishness
Word · Daniel Dennett - data lakehouse
Phrase · Databricks - yeet
Word · David Banna - psychoplastogen
Word · David E. Olson - falseticker
Word · David L. Mills - truechimer
Word · David L. Mills - shi
Word · David Suzuki - shi(ts)
Word · David Suzuki - shibire
Word · David Suzuki - shibire(ts)
Word · David Suzuki - cromulent
Word · David X. Cohen - fourth wall
Phrase · Denis Diderot - dangleway
Word · Diamond Geezer - nonagintillion
Word · Dmitri Borgmann