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

Modern life, properly defined.

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FINOPS

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

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing Lucifer presiding over a ceremony that gives a leaking pile of cloud waste a dashboard, a cost centre and an owner, thereby making it respectable.
The illustrated dictionary FINOPS
A connected train of thought

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

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

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KUBERNETES n.

    A system for arranging containers so that nobody knows where the application is.

  3. Data & AI

    GENERATIVE AI n.

    A method of generating plausible text and implausible valuations in a Ponzi scheme of mutual enthusiasm, whose promised return is a workforce without workers.