• swlabr@awful.systems
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          8 months ago

          Perhaps not, but maybe “zemblanity”, a word I found by searching “serendipity but bad”:

          Zemblanity is the opposite of serendipity, meaning that it is an unlucky or unwanted, but predictable, event. Although it might be difficult to imagine someone behaving in a manner that could be predicted to cause harm, zemblanity can occur as a result of complex human and organizational factors.

          Per ness labs, which the only context I have for it is that it isn’t a dictionary.

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      8 months ago

      excuse me good sir, that’s under the department of societal maintenance

      (no I don’t really think that pompously of it but at least the tracking and awareness side of it is not all that far removed either)