Person 1- have you witnessed the urban blight in Syracuse, NY?
Person 2- isn't that the place where the military tests nukes?
Person 1- a yes would have been sufficient.
Person 2- isn't that the place where the military tests nukes?
Person 1- a yes would have been sufficient.
by Cusecanblowme December 18, 2012
Get the Urban blightmug. The condition that happens to the living space of any bachelor. Characterized by piled papers on the table, dirty dishes on the sink and laundry everywhere except for where it should be.
by Anon October 29, 2007
Get the bachelor blightmug. This is a response to the dilemma of having to choose between Bud Light or Blight, and Bud Light Platinum or Plight. Like the fight-or-flight response, the blight-or-plight response is a physiologic reaction to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. After the initial shock due to a systematic increase in adrenaline, the response results in disgust and rejection of either beer option.
When I first walked into the liquor store I had a wicked blight-or-plight response until I realized the microbrews were hidden all the way in the back.
by Woody Lajonze February 6, 2014
Get the Blight-or-Plight Responsemug. Look at that blight over there.
by notnotDaniel August 7, 2018
Get the blightmug. also Data-blight
The systemic propagation and entrenchment of inaccurate or corrupted personal data across interconnected digital or bureaucratic ecosystems, resulting in material, social, or psychological harm to the affected individual.
In essence, data blight describes how a falsehood, once digitized and networked, acquires bureaucratic immortality. It exposes the fragility of “truth” in algorithmic governance, where records outrank lived reality.
This phenomenon occurs when erroneous information originating in one data source is automatically replicated, shared, or revalidated by other institutions—often through automated data exchange, identity verification, or algorithmic matching—creating a self-reinforcing web of falsehoods. Like biological blight, it spreads through interdependence, exploiting weak governance, poor data hygiene, and the absence of effective correction mechanisms.
Example: An error in one government database—such as misrecording a single person as a married cohabitant—can cascade through banking, taxation, and utilities systems, effectively rewriting the individual’s administrative identity and generating real-world consequences including denial of services, legal misclassification, or reputational harm.
The systemic propagation and entrenchment of inaccurate or corrupted personal data across interconnected digital or bureaucratic ecosystems, resulting in material, social, or psychological harm to the affected individual.
In essence, data blight describes how a falsehood, once digitized and networked, acquires bureaucratic immortality. It exposes the fragility of “truth” in algorithmic governance, where records outrank lived reality.
This phenomenon occurs when erroneous information originating in one data source is automatically replicated, shared, or revalidated by other institutions—often through automated data exchange, identity verification, or algorithmic matching—creating a self-reinforcing web of falsehoods. Like biological blight, it spreads through interdependence, exploiting weak governance, poor data hygiene, and the absence of effective correction mechanisms.
Example: An error in one government database—such as misrecording a single person as a married cohabitant—can cascade through banking, taxation, and utilities systems, effectively rewriting the individual’s administrative identity and generating real-world consequences including denial of services, legal misclassification, or reputational harm.
That error in the Electoral Register has come up again. I'm data blighted and my bank has frozen my accounts.
by APedant October 28, 2025
Get the Data Blightmug. by yakrank September 24, 2020
Get the Blight-fusemug. 