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Order of the Occult Hand

by orobinson on 9/9/23, 7:53 PM with 7 comments

• by mindcrime on 9/9/23, 8:27 PM

  It's interesting to see this show up here and now on HN. It's as if an occult hand had reached down and planted this here for us to find.

  Weird.

• by mypastself on 9/9/23, 8:27 PM

  Now I’m really interested in finding out what the new stealth phrase was, and if it’s still in circulation.

  I do feel like there must have been some secret agreement recently by tech bloggers to overuse and misuse “enshittification”…

  It’s a shame that so many links on the Wikipedia Occult Hand page are dead, for someone like me who wants to read about it some more. It’s almost as if…

• by mawadev on 9/9/23, 8:44 PM

  It was as if an occult hand hit ctrl + c and ctrl + v to post this to hackernews...

• by FridayNightTV on 9/9/23, 8:45 PM

  Along similar lines.... When presenting at a conference, our research group would always pick a word that everybody had to sneak into their talk, or else buy everyone a pint.....

  ....though, I was once at a conference where for a split second, a bloke flashed a slide showing a chimpanzees arse. We recon he had a similar bet going.

• by Lammy on 9/9/23, 8:43 PM

  > a secret society of American journalists

  Fun fact: Bohemian Club was founded by the San Francisco Chronicle editorial staff of the 1870s :)