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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
i am maybe unusual in regarding long-time following as an intimate thing to do. i often experience other people’s tweets as happening inside me in some sense; they sort of enter my head the same way my own thoughts do. this is a lot of power to give someone!
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@parafactual
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there are so many people i'd feel bad unfollowing and wanna be semi-friends with who i still don't want on my tl :(
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
some people are lovely and also you don’t want their tweets inside you, in the same way that some people are lovely and also you don’t want to have sex with them which is to say, normalize 👏 unfollowing 👏 your 👏 friends
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
interestingly i never felt this way about facebook or tumblr. people on twitter seem to be “thinking out loud” meaningfully more often, at least the people i follow on the various platforms. facebook posts feel like they are happening “in the social space”
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
“Follow the same people you’d want to give partial access to a brain-computer interface, because you are”
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@nickcammarata
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I do think it’s critically important to curate who you follow. @QiaochuYuan is right that you’re deciding who you want inside you Follow the same people you’d want to give partial access to a brain-computer interface, because you are
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
starting at 20:52: "tao, if you listen to this, you'll know that i blocked you... tao is such a good poster that his strength of personality is strong enough that i just can't engage, it's just too much... i just can't incur the psychic cost"
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eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
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last podcast of the day wherein @disconcerta and I get progressively drunk and talk about new york, learning about history, friendship at first sight, and disconcerta's policy for blocking people on twitter (many of you have asked about this) soundcloud.com/user-557955426
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