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  1. @true_wheel Would've been better with compile errors complaining about incompatible generic types, or something along those lines. about 2 hours ago via HTC Peep in reply to true_wheel
  2. @lemonbloodycola Amnesty torture methods pamphlet from mid-80s: "this is what happens if you lose". about 10 hours ago via web in reply to lemonbloodycola
  3. @lemonbloodycola Why, we sit in our homes waiting to be rounded up by the military junta, of course. about 10 hours ago via web in reply to lemonbloodycola
  4. @ichlugebullets @spitzenprodukte I didn't like 2 Unlimited that much the first time around. about 22 hours ago via web in reply to ichlugebullets
  5. @ichlugebullets @spitzenprodukte That it's like the incidental music from Lazytown, only without the subtlety, wit or emotional resonance. about 23 hours ago via web in reply to ichlugebullets
  6. Most people not us would find us incredibly boring. Or temporarily fascinating, but frustrating to be around in the longer term. 5:34 AM Jun 1st via web
  7. Geek sociality: clever talk, puns, quotes, bright-sparkery. Trade in references. "Religious" debate, counting angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin. 5:33 AM Jun 1st via web
  8. ...inasmuch as it frees up attention for other uses. 5:31 AM Jun 1st via web
  9. Not intransigence, deliberate rudeness, hostile refusal to be moved. More a kind of impairment, although an enabling kind... 5:31 AM Jun 1st via web
  10. their motivations, it's from a sort of Sherlock Holmes-y puzzle-solving perspective. Missing the "ooh! ah! and did she? shocking!" dimension 5:27 AM Jun 1st via web
  11. hooked up to deeper libidinal circuits - I simply don't take much pleasure in real-life drama. If I do take pleasure in talk about people & 5:25 AM Jun 1st via web
  12. It's that the kind of feeling-towards such a mapping that others experience is muted or unavailable: I can do it "in software", but it's not 5:24 AM Jun 1st via web
  13. *need* a rich cognitive/affective mapping of my social environment, as those in straitened circumstanced are said to do. 5:22 AM Jun 1st via web
  14. and once again am struck by a sense of colour-blindness, or whatever the opposite of "epistemic hunger" is. It isn't (entirely) that I don't 5:21 AM Jun 1st via web
  15. Only a few pages into Epistemology of the Closet, I read a defence of gossip as "nonce taxonomy", experimental feeling-out of social terrain 5:20 AM Jun 1st via web
  16. I jest. I never read EKS without major thrills. 5:10 AM Jun 1st via web
  17. ...and turned it into a nickname for distasteful ontological practices. 5:04 AM Jun 1st via web
  18. Bloody "queer theorists" have taken a perfectly healthy and innocent word used to describe sexual preferences... 5:04 AM Jun 1st via web
  19. F. ascends Fanny Hill: thereddeeps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/no-ski… 12:29 PM May 31st via web
  20. @DT_1975 Badiou uses toposes, which are kind of a bit like that (waves hands vigorously...) 6:02 AM May 31st via web in reply to DT_1975