A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire
Lucifer’s Lexicon

Modern life, properly defined.

From the dictionary

DATA LAKE

n.A place where information is poured faster than anybody learns to swim.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing departmental pipes flooding a vast data lake while an employee struggles to swim and compact Lucifer calmly opens another valve.
The illustrated dictionary DATA LAKE
A connected train of thought

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

    Someone else's computer, made mysterious enough to justify recurring payment.

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    FINOPS n.

    The ceremony by which a company gives its cloud waste a dashboard, a cost centre and an owner, thereby making it respectable.

  3. Data & AI

    HUMAN IN THE LOOP n.

    A person retained to accept responsibility for the machine's decisions.