A star chart of 324 terms in 13 constellations, plus 50 field stars. Mined from 1,142 GitHub repos and grouped by resonance, with new words measured across 9,677 more repos.
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| Constellation | Terms | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| The Engine | 40 | AI agents and the tooling around them, beside everyday human work; the fire burns just below it |
| The Lyre | 27 | sound, vibration and geometry |
| The Loom | 27 | cybernetics, systems and emergence |
| The Oracle | 17 | divination, symbol and the mystic traditions |
| The Witness | 18 | consciousness, meditation and awakening |
| The Lens | 13 | mathematics, active inference and how minds model the world |
| The Shadow | 13 | Jungian depth psychology |
| The Prism | 7 | interoception, metacognition, anti-deskilling, mirror moment, post-traumatic growth, antifragility |
| The Extraction | 40 | the extraction playbook: six moves, what gets taken, counter-moves; the black hole sits just above it |
| The Inverted Prism | 8 | the aggregate observer: takes in all the light, returns none |
| The Temple | 12 | groups as psychic structure, where the mythic and systems layers meet |
| The Gymnasium | 8 | the trained body: effort, rhythm, discipline, and the chills that come with them |
| The Politicals | 10 | the room as stage: acting, theatre, play, masks, ego and deception |
| Field stars | 50 | terms that resonate with nothing yet |
The classical city's three rooms now form the middle row, beneath the Lens, the Prism and the Loom: the Temple at the centre (the room as sacred space), with the Gymnasium (the trained body) on one side and the Politicals on the other (the room as stage, with the performer at its centre). Both new rooms connect to frisson: the Gymnasium through effort and rhythm (workout music, the runner's high), the Politicals through allegory and symbolic perception, since chills arrive when meaning resolves. Four schemes run from the rooms down to the Extraction: the gym (memberships people pay for and rarely use), the bet (sports betting on the slot-machine schedule), the stage (political theater into the spectacle and rage bait) and the temple (high-control groups).
The fire does not all get sucked in. Seven return highways now carry it outward, one into each outer cluster, drawn solid where the siphons are dashed: the song (the Lyre: shared rhythm and synchronized hearts), the gift (the Engine: craft passed on, ending in the gift economy), the circle (the Witness: co-regulation), the myth (the Oracle: the hero returns with the boon), the shadow (individuation), the pattern (the Lens: tested and published back as open science) and the commons (the Loom: collective intelligence). With the transmuted path, eight carry the fire outward and eight siphon it.
The fire moved into the centre column, between the Engine and the Prism, as the black hole's mirror: one is where the maker's heat burns, the other is where it disappears. Eight siphons now run from the fire down to the black hole, each a highway: memetics, confession (the chill of being seen, said to a listener that logs it), outrage (rage bait), the loop (variable rewards and doomscrolling), parasocial bonds, the job, the platform (the creator economy) and the body. One path still runs the other way: transmuted, through frisson and metacognition to the transcendent function. The fire and the black hole are drawn as a bright ember and a dark disc.
The planetary body: kundalini in the person, ley lines and the world grid in the land, the noosphere as the planet's mind, stacked as a rising column from kundalini up to the noosphere, with chakras, telluric currents, the Schumann resonance and the Global Consciousness Project between. The kundalini link holds in the literature (two serpent currents along one alignment; the "planetary kundalini"), not as a measured current. Between the Inverted Prism and the Extraction, the black hole: where the money and the loosh disappear, sharing the secrecy above and the money below. UAP and Pentagon audits sit beside it; tax havens, dark money, offshore leaks and beneficial ownership feed into it from the Extraction; the fire's extracted path now ends there. The Prism was raised toward the Engine to open the middle of the map. A new guard drops measured links between terms that share a search word; it removed five circular links.
Also this round: the fire (also the spark, the flame) joined the Engine: the maker's heat, adversity, frisson and abstraction transmuted into making. Two paths leave it. Transmuted: post-traumatic growth, the fire, frisson, metacognition, the transcendent function. Extracted: the fire, mimetic desire, memetics, loosh. Around it: tummo (the inner fire, beside kundalini), calcination (alchemy's first fire), post-traumatic growth and antifragility (both measured into the Prism), and memetic warfare in the Extraction. Memetics is now the hub of the memetics web, linked to hyperstition, meme magic, hypersigil, memetic warfare and egregore.
Also this round: the holographic principle became a hub at the centre of the map, inside the star just right of the Prism, with its family around it: AdS/CFT, the Bekenstein bound, it from bit, Bohm's implicate order, Talbot's holographic universe, holographic reduced representations and Indra's net. Its sourced links reach six constellations, from the Markov blanket in the Lens (the boundary as a holographic screen) to vector-symbolic AI in the Engine. On narrow screens the map now zooms far enough for star names to appear.
Earlier this round: everyday human work joined the Engine beside the AI vocabulary, and labour extraction joined the Extraction, each paired by a Human ↔ AI mirror link. Two new paths, human (from service work) and AI (from large language models), end at Jung's transcendent function. The CCRU's numogram, syzygy, gematria, desiring-machines, hypersigil and meme magic now orbit the Oracle beside hyperstition. The burning of Alexandria (the fire) and loosh (the harvest) joined the Extraction. Frisson was re-placed as a symbol creating feedback in the nervous system, with kundalini, somatic engineering, ASMR, somatic experiencing and neuromarketing around it. Coined names without outside matches now ride on the star they name as rosetta names.
- A line between two terms means resonance: they appear in the same repos more often than chance.
- Color means tier. Grounded is an established field or working method. Speculative is serious but unproven. Practice covers contemplative, symbolic or creative traditions, judged by use rather than truth claims. Fringe conflicts with established science or cannot be tested as stated.
- Line types: measured (co-occurrence), stated (gold dotted, declared connections), translations (cyan, systems terms paired with soul-side terms), rhymes (red dotted, curated groupings).
- Starred terms are new words from the frontier measurement. Gold terms are coined terms.
- Field stars resonate with nothing yet: too rare in these repos for a pattern to form.
- The six outer constellations form a hexagram; the Temple sits between the Prism and the Inverted Prism. Paths are curved with numbered stations and a travelling arrow. A star on several paths shows them one at a time as highways: the panel cycles through them slowly until you pick one. Plot a path: click stars in order to chart a route. Search finds every name a star answers to, including rosetta names. Human and AI tags mark the two vocabularies.
Terms were extracted from READMEs and docs across 1,142 public repos, then clustered by co-occurrence measured against chance (modularity 0.659). New words were measured across 9,677 more repos. Curated constellations (the Extraction, the Inverted Prism, the Temple, the Gymnasium, the Politicals) are labeled as curated. Coined terms appear only when someone else's repo uses them in the same sense, with labeled exceptions. The full method, layers and sources are in research-report.md. Snapshots go stale; re-mining on a cadence is what keeps a map like this live.
index.html: the map. Self-contained, no dependencies.research-report.md: the research report. What the map is, the layers, method, limits and sources.
This map is a living survey, not a finished artifact. If you mine repos, track emergent vocabulary, or build tooling that could feed it, open an issue or a pull request.