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Post-Material Cyber-Nihilism

A variant focused on transcending material scarcity and economic relations, arguing that the Wired can create a post-scarcity reality where material constraints no longer apply. Post-Material Cyber-Nihilism embraces automation, digital fabrication, and decentralized production as tools for dissolving the material basis of hierarchy. Its goal is a world where nothing is scarce because everything can be produced from information—where the only limit is computation, and computation can be distributed infinitely. It's cyber-nihilism as post-capitalist vision, using technology to eliminate the material conditions that make domination possible.
Example: "The network shared designs for open-source fabricators that could produce anything from local materials—food, medicine, tools, shelter. 'Post-material cyber-nihilism,' the manifesto read. 'When everything can be made anywhere, property becomes meaningless. When nothing is scarce, hierarchy has nothing to control. We're not destroying capitalism; we're making it irrelevant.' The fabricators spread; the economy shifted; the state noticed. But by then, the means of production were everywhere and nowhere."

Post-cereal material 

Nelly had stomach cramps....she badly needed to get to the bowel bowl to release some post-cereal material.
Post-cereal material by Zonal K September 27, 2019

Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand
Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026
Word of the Day on July 16, 2026
n. A screenshot fabricated by a company to misrepresent the graphics of a game; a combination of the words bullshit and screenshot.

Originated from Penny Arcade, a popular gaming webcomic.
-Have you seen Madden 2006 for the Xbox 360? The graphics are gonna be awesome!
-Dude, the Madden 2006 images they showed at E3 were bullshots. It doesn't look nearly as good as they said.
bullshot by Worker Unit #503,298,545 September 26, 2005
Word of the Day on July 15, 2026

Gayborhood 

N. A neighborhood containing homes, clubs, bars, restaurants, and other places of business and entertainment that cater to homosexuals.
"They've opened up a new club in the Gayborhood called the Male Box."
Gayborhood by Mia Shields January 6, 2006
Word of the Day on July 14, 2026
A small piece of information. Derived from the word ken, used often in the scottish language and is synonymous with knowledge.
Person 1: "Hey I don't get this shit. How do you solve this problem?"
Person 2: "I got that one. Give me some kenlets on this assignment and I'll help you w/ that one."
kenlet by Norma Y. October 8, 2005
Word of the Day on July 13, 2026