Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/28/a-glossary-of-silicon-valley-t.html
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I got’a little puke in the back of my throat on that one…
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You should have just microdosed the list.
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Depressing how many of those terms I already knew. Knew? Lived. Ugh.
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Ooh, ooh! Do “Thinkfluencer”!
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Any time I hear anyone use “(thing)fluencer” unironically I want to punch something. I read an article that used the term “gunfluencer” the other day.
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This is just a list of the terms that have leaked into daily discourse and absolutely aren’t restricted to techbros. Add in more crypto-Randian fluff and you’ll get closer.
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Now you tell me…
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This one’s brilliant:
Google (v) – To make the bare minimum effort to inform oneself about something. What a tech bro did before he insisted on explaining your area of expertise to you.
Note: includes a noun definition, too, but this is the funny non-depressing one.
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ha! precious… love it, cuz it’s true.
a friend told me he asked a dispensary in sf for edibles in 10mg units because he had no tolerance and they said “oh yeah we sell microdoses”
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incubator (n) A parent company that takes baby companies under its wing until they can fly on their own; a playgroup for tech bros. See meritocracy .
Yup.
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As a woman in tech who is also a writer: I live this list Every.Damn.Day.
It’s killing my soul 
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They left out brogrammer == tech bro.
Whenever I see articles like this I get reminded of how Megan Jasper of Caroline records faked out a NYT reporter in the 90s. She gave a list of hilarious fake ‘grunge’ terms like ‘cobnobbler’ for loser and ‘lamestain’ for an uncool person, which were summarily printed without verification.
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Ambrose Bierce would have been proud of you.
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