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

Modern life, properly defined.

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KAFKA

n.A system for ensuring that no event is truly lost, merely waiting somewhere you have not yet inspected.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing Lucifer beside endless event-processing conveyors while an engineer searches for an event labelled NOT LOST.
The illustrated dictionary KAFKA
A connected train of thought

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

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

  2. Enterprise Software

    SAP n.

    Software designed to fit every business after sufficient alteration to resemble none.

  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.