i look at old threads like this and i just feel icky. really unpleasant people interacting in a really unpleasant way. stop trying to be right you nerds, just have a laugh.
As things get faster, shorter and more reactive our online personalities become increasingly cartoonised. And dissensus or twitter reinforces this type of engagement, not on quality but on quantity - were forced down a writing ratchet that just wants more writing
the major conversations on dissensus at the moment are about social media etc as a kind of teaching machine How we are tweaked and pinched and pulled and shaped by the responses we receive and by the responses we anticipate receiving. Locked into these teaching machines, something within us...
can you do me a favour and try and read the PKD essay Gus wrote? I want to know if my reaction to it is idiosyncratic. its linked to on the last page of the cyclonopedia thread i think
The reactions and all that on here definitely have an impact. Bartys tenure actually predated them, so he might like them if he comes back. It's a different place I think, the upgrade isn't the whole story but it has an effect.
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