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.

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…

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

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.

> a secret society of American journalists

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