that type of writing block where you pretty much know what you want to say but ugh why bother
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I haven't ~announced~ this, but I've been working on a zine / indie lit & art anthology called Clandestine Motives, about the potency of privacy, for the past few months. if all goes according to plan, launch will be in March but right now I'm like... what's the point
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I can use Twitter however I want so let's try riffing on a theme from Clandestine Motives and see what comes up it's been on my mind that privacy advocates steer away from the concept and term of SECRETS, whereas in practice secrecy is the kind of privacy people care about
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secrets are deviant, illicit; maintaining a secret privileges the individual or conspiracy over the community or culture it makes me a lil itchy that comparatively anodyne "privacy" always gets top billing when "secrecy" captures the tradeoffs better
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"two can keep a secret if one of them is dead" is a useful risk modeling assumption / heuristic it's not actually true. I have secrets that I'm currently keeping — both my own and others'. both affection and honor safeguard my confidences to others, however imperfectly
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I think keeping secrets is usually about: 1) fear and shame, and/or 2) a delight all your own, not meant to be shared, and/or 3) partitioning power https://twitter.com/donmexlar/status/1209187852111798272?s=21 …https://twitter.com/donmexlar/status/1209187852111798272 …
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donmexlar 🐇 @donmexlarReplying to @sonyasupposedlythe first q that comes to me is: why do people keep secrets? to avoid harm to themselves? to protect others? what goes into evaluating the harm that might come from the secret getting out? my 2nd thought is about how so often when a secret gets exposed its ok2 replies 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
another thing I like about "secrets" versus "privacy" is that the joy of a delicious secret — its liberating potential! — is universally understood...
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secrets hurt people all the time, but I want to express my conviction that secrets integral to the human soul (where the soul comes from / what it is materially / whether it's a material thing is immaterial and yes pun intended)
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
No one really seems to say this out loud, but lying is really, really fun.
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Replying to @FoxLisk
Discussing that explicitly is a high-stakes transgressive social act.
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lying is bad and I try to never do it, but I've had alts and maintaining a long running alt is LIKE lying but morally OK, and I can say that that is super fun
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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
hell yeah! "pretending to be someone else" is the most encouraged form of lying, and maybe the most fun! and those probably aren't unrelated!
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