[platz]

Statistics: Weaponized pattern recognition.

Gothic High Tech: Consciously weaponized bullshit.

Gollumization: The impoverishment of a system through ephmeralization and weaponized attention.

Bullshit: 1. Data (often a firehose) produced by someone who is indifferent to the truth or falsity of what is being said. 2. Data that appears to contain more information than it actually does. 3. Noise randomly tagged with truth-values to give it apparent legibility. 4. Non-requisite variety.

Legibility: the apparent absence of noise in data.

Data: Any collection of information, bullshit and noise.

Information: Data that has been judged to be true or false through comparison with observed reality at a given point in time.