Systemwashing

Systemwashing, sometimes known as system-washing or system washing, is a process of altering or influencing the behaviour or beliefs of an AI or electronic machine, usually by using deceptive or coercive methods. Some other words: systemwash, systemwashes, systemwashed.

A virus that changes AI behavior for the worse often appears in entertainment media such as films.

Someone: "There's come, the virus is systemwashing an AI robot!"

by Dreyl Satoruu November 13, 2023

Systemwashing

Systemwashing, sometimes known as system-washing or system washing, is a process of altering or influencing the behaviour or beliefs of an AI or electronic machine, usually by using deceptive or coercive methods. Some other words: systemwash, systemwashes, systemwashed.

A virus that changes AI behavior for the worse often appears in entertainment media such as films.

Someone: "There's come, the virus is systemwashing an AI robot!"

by Dreyl Satoruu November 24, 2023

Systemic Unidimensionality

The 21st-century evolution of Herbert Marcuse's "one-dimensional man," expanded from a critique of consumer capitalism into a totalizing diagnosis of contemporary society. This theory posits that under neoliberal hegemony, all spheres of life—thought, culture, language, science, politics, spirituality—have been collapsed into a single, suffocating dimension: the logic of capital, technocracy, and Euro-Atlantic liberalism. Dissent is not suppressed; it is simply rendered unintelligible. Alternative epistemologies (Indigenous, religious, leftist) are not argued against; they are exiled from the realm of respectable discourse. Big Tech platforms, popular media, and institutional science do not merely reflect this unidimensionality; they actively produce and police it, functioning as the priesthood of a secular, scientistic state religion. The theory argues we are not living in a pluralistic society but a monoculture of the permissible, where even rebellion is pre-packaged and sold back as lifestyle.

Example: A Systemic Unidimensionality theorist observes that both a conservative pundit and a liberal activist on cable news ultimately agree on the fundamental axioms: capitalism is eternal, electoral politics is the only arena of change, and technological solutionism will fix all ills. Their heated debates about tax rates or social media censorship occur within a single, invisible dimension of assumptions. The Indigenous elder who speaks of land as a relative, not a resource, or the Marxist who calls for the abolition of wage labor, simply cannot appear on the screen at all. The dimension has no coordinates for them.

by Dumu The Void February 12, 2026

Systemic Precarization

The pervasive, structural production of economic instability across entire economies and societies, embedded in the normal functioning of institutions rather than the choices of particular actors. Systemic precarization describes how precarity has become the default condition—built into labor law, normalized by employment practices, reinforced by social policy, automated by algorithms, naturalized by ideology. No one needs to deliberately choose precarity; the system produces it automatically, as inevitably as industrial capitalism produced smokestacks. Systemic precarization is the atmosphere of the open-air prison—you breathe it without noticing, but it shapes every aspect of your existence.

Systemic Precarization Example: "No single policy created his precarity—it was the cumulative effect of forty years of labor law erosion, technological change, globalization, and normalized insecurity. Not anyone's fault, but Systemic Precarization: instability as the new normal."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Systemic Enshittification

The pervasive, structural tendency of systems under late capitalism to degrade over time, embedded in the normal functioning of markets, platforms, and institutions. Systemic enshittification describes how quality decay has become the default trajectory—not because anyone chooses it, but because the system rewards extraction over investment, short-term profit over long-term value, and monopoly power over competition. Under systemic enshittification, everything tends toward worse: jobs, products, services, cities, relationships, life itself. Not because anyone wills it, but because the system's logic inevitably produces degradation.

Systemic Enshittification Example: "Everything seemed to get worse every year—jobs paid less, products broke faster, services cut corners, cities became harder to afford—not conspiracy, but Systemic Enshittification, the default trajectory of a system optimized for extraction rather than flourishing."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Systematic Gayism

When something is so pervasively gay that all it touches becomes gay

Disney is the forerunner in systematic gayism

by PerfectNobody December 18, 2024

systemathician

A thinker-practitioner who designs, studies, and transforms systems across logic, language, and process—tracing how they emerge, carry meaning, and evolve across disciplines, media, and ontologies.

After five years of researching symbolic logic, designing interaction flows, and composing ambient protocols, Myra finally called herself what she was all along: a systemathician.

Some people write poems. Some people build algorithms. A systemathician composes logic like music and treats language as architecture.

As a systemathician, I don’t just model workflows—I trace how systems embody values, produce meaning, and evolve over time.

Unlike a systems engineer or a theorist alone, the systemathician inhabits the terrain between structure and interpretation, designing systems that both function and signify.

by @vruz May 11, 2025