Order of the Occult Hand

[mindcrime]

It's interesting to see this show up here and now on HN. It's as if an occult hand had reached down and planted this here for us to find.

Weird.

[UweSchmidt]

The Order was occasionally endangered by reckless and artless users of the phrase

[mypastself]

Now I’m really interested in finding out what the new stealth phrase was, and if it’s still in circulation.

I do feel like there must have been some secret agreement recently by tech bloggers to overuse and misuse “enshittification”…

It’s a shame that so many links on the Wikipedia Occult Hand page are dead, for someone like me who wants to read about it some more. It’s almost as if…

[0xEF]

Hmm, you have me thinking...if these orders don't exist, perhaps they should? The Pragmatic Enshittification Temple does have a nice ring to it.

[mawadev]

It was as if an occult hand hit ctrl + c and ctrl + v to post this to hackernews...

[FridayNightTV]

Along similar lines.... When presenting at a conference, our research group would always pick a word that everybody had to sneak into their talk, or else buy everyone a pint.....

....though, I was once at a conference where for a split second, a bloke flashed a slide showing a chimpanzees arse. We recon he had a similar bet going.

[Lammy]

> a secret society of American journalists

Fun fact: Bohemian Club was founded by the San Francisco Chronicle editorial staff of the 1870s :)