I've been playing around with Cloudflare's Browser Run and Workers AI to create this funny "website vs website"-website.
Google's Gemma 4b model is actually quite good at vision.
"IQ-mogged" would mean that person A was dominated/overshadowed/etc. by person B because person B is very smart.
"Height-mogged" would mean the same, but due to height.
I’m 42, and definitely don’t feel old yet - at least, my mind doesn’t feel old. My body is beginning to show me what’s it going to be like.
I don’t think my generation is nearly as out of touch with youth and niche culture as our parents were. While there are definitely examples of slang that surprise me and for which I’ve not quite nailed down the colloquial usage, it’s extremely rare that I can’t infer the meaning from context.
For that matter, I’ve adopted some of it where it makes sense. “-maxxing” is handy, and conveys more than “optimize for”; I might say I’m “tokenmaxxing” when I’m talking about intentionally using more costly inference than necessary because I’m not the one paying for it and the time necessary to optimize utilization isn’t worth it to me as a result. Basically implicitly recognizing that what I’m doing is ridiculous when viewed from the outside.
The only slang I can think of that I’ve not fully understood is “type shit”. I get that it usually used as an affirmation of someone else’s statement - but not always. I think its exact semantics are likely still in flux, because I’ve heard it used to mean all kinds of unrelated things depending on tone.
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Thinking about this, I wonder if it’s not a continuation of the same processes that lead to the disappearance of many regional accents. That’s generally accepted to be happening, and caused by the rise of mass media (radio, TV, Internet).
Maybe the Internet (social media in particular) has lumped everyone together in one giant community, and as a result slang no longer has time to solidly meaning in a niche group before reaching the general public.
Mogging is behaving as though you expect everyone is going to think you're great because of how you look; in particular that you think you look better than someone right next to you.
I know the author from about ten years ago and I'm not surprised he's into it. But also he's Dutch so it's probably used very much ironically / as a joke here.
https://sitemogging.com/mogged/asda.com-vs-tesco.com
asda.com uses Cloudflare to block Cloudflare
tesco.com uses Akamai to block Cloudflare
> emsh.cat wins due to its superior use of negative space and a more intentional, minimalist typographic hierarchy that creates a sophisticated reading experience. While simonwilliam.net provides high information density, emsh.cat achieves a more polished and modern aesthetic through its refined layout and balanced composition.
So "mogged" is about minimalism somehow? Fancy/modern term for "beauty" or similar?
Didn't know Jacob Rees-Mogg was so popular with the kids... (please not)
Whereas you "mog" simply by being within range of the other person, you don't even have to interact, but a third party can see your natural advantages over that other person, thus "mogging" them.
> cperciva on July 18, 2007 "Did you win the Putnam?" Yes, I did.
Weekend Update: Chad Maxxington on the Art of Looksmaxxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMPLdiXB1k
Can't wait till South Park makes fun of it!
Maybe introduce some additional stats like load times, content analysis etc - and tweak the prompt slightly - just because a website looks slightly newer, doesn't mean it's better at all!
So the obvious next step is to pit them against each other, seems your "premium, editorial feel" won out!
> bemben.co.uk wins due to its sophisticated use of typography and a cohesive dark-mode aesthetic that creates a premium, editorial feel. While emsh.cat is functional and clean, it lacks the intentional visual hierarchy and character found in the layout of bemben.co.uk.
Good example: The site of the family office of the heir to the Nintendo empire only got a 4/10 https://www.y-n10.com/
What I really wanted though was just a way to get my own site’s score without having a competitor.
The site is intentionally kept visually unappealing.
EDIT: Around 16 years ago I was very much into bodybuilding and fitness, and spent a lot of time on the bodybuilding misc forum. Around that time the incel community started to take shape, and you had forums like PUA hate and other dark corners of the internet. These people were also very active on the bodybuilding forums, and would try to steer users over to the incel communities (interesting note: These communities started out as a place where unsuccessful men could vent over having spent money on pick-up artists, without any results).
Those places had a very distinct lingo, which is the very same that you see today with mogging / maxxing / pilling / etc. They even had a glossary.
Were those words older than those communities? Yes, very much so. But they've been completely hi-jacked, and any modern usage comes from those communities.
Also consider that people are laughing at the cant and its speakers, rather than with them.
If you need evidence of this, try saying this without laughing: "Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels. Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging moids more useful than SMV chadfishing in the club?"
Not sure why, but they always seemed to be terribly vulnerable to nonsense.
Couldn't you say the same thing about it breaking out into the wider Gen Z vocabulary as well?
https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg_gamers/comments/kew14o/ok_what_...
It was fine before they got hold of it.
Which comes from RPGs, the old school tabletop ones. Then I don't know if the ML/DS term "Minmax" predates the RPGs or if it's the other way around, neither would surprise me.
