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Digital parlance #76

  • Vampire appliances: appliances that use electricity even when they are off as these are often in standby mode such as a TV, a home assistant or anything with a timer. Smartphone and PC charger also use power even when they are not being charged, still plugged into the wall.

  • Birchpunk : portmanteau word made of “birch” (birch tree) and “punk” (for cyberpunk) that designate a contemporary form of cyberpunk technological imaginary located in the countryside (Source: Birchpunk YouTube).

  • Stacktivism: a term coined by Jay Springett “that attempts to give form to a critical conversation & line of enquiry (infra-spection?) around infrastructure & the relationship we have to it.” (Source: #stacktivism)

  • Nonograms (aka Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Logimage) : picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. (Source: Come Internet with Me).

  • “To Gloom” : “verb indicating deception in online teaching with Zoom where most, if not all, the participants are represented by a wall of black tiles with merely a name or a picture, not necessarily theirs. Situation generalised mostly following the coronavirus pandemic situation of 2020 when most courses were shifted online almost overnight not allowing for a proper redesigned pedagogy” (Source: via Jean-Henry Morin)