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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 23

    i wrote a new blog post about - the social psych of alt twitter - why digital masks can be therapeutic - the feedback loop between media tech and identity, from medieval times til today - how the internet is challenging basic assumptions about the self

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  2. Feb 1

    Gwern's theory of why puns are so irresistible to hackers

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    can everyone else feel when something is on their clipboard

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  4. Jan 30

    it is a mystery to me how politicians can repeat the same stump speech hundreds and hundreds of times, i can barely tell the same story to 3 different friends w/o getting a little self conscious

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  5. Jan 30

    Interesting example of Disney diplomacy: Bob Iger talks about how Saudi Arabia tried to convince him to build a theme park in the Middle East. the crown prince thought a local Disneyland would be good for his political goals

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  6. Jan 30

    journalism prof at Michigan State is close reading tiktoks in his class about the impact of media on society and you gotta wonder what this lecture would look like if the students were teaching it instead

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  7. Jan 30

    digital version of Picasso’s bull progression: publish the same concept in 10 different forms youtube video essay podcast monologue blog post messy personal wiki 60 second tiktok video 6 second byte video late stage dank meme early 2000s simple meme tweet tinder bio

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  8. Jan 28

    caffeine implies coffee shops and salons, alcohol implies bars and parties, THC + psychedelics implies all of these new immersive world-building experiences

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  9. Jan 28

    zerospace got me thinking abt the feedback loop b/w the drugs we legalize and the social architecture we design. different substances have affordances for different kinds of physical spaces. in the invite email, zerospace tells ppl to use “reality alterers that you regular take”

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  10. Jan 28

    10/10 would recommend —definitely more than a photo opp. it’s a trippy blend of participatory improv, dance show, immersive art, community organizing, and puzzle video game but IRL feels like being inside a Ted Chiang story. or a hybrid of Sleep No More + Meow Wolf

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  11. Jan 28

    an theory about why kids are domestic cozy online while their parents feel like they have to maintain a presentable personal brand

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  12. Jan 28

    a generational divide that i’m pretty sure exists is millennials hold their phone up and pose for snapchat selfies, kids take the pic in whatever the hell position they’re already in and write texts on top of their awkward angle face like it’s background wallpaper

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  13. Jan 28

    current fav genre of tiktok is people trying to share what it feels like to be inside their heads, externalizing thought processes that are otherwise invisible from the outside e.g. this guy shows how video games have affected his everyday perceptual experience

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  14. Jan 28

    omg there were some pro-slavery lobbyists in the late 1700s who really thought everyone would calm down if they could just rebrand “slaves” to “assistant-planters”

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  15. Jan 26

    interesting idea from : a group chat for collaborators where posts appear in the thread without any attribution. might foster a different mindset — the goal of participating in the convo is to create a cool artifact together, not flex your smarts/interestingness

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  16. Jan 26

    have you seen any examples of new-ish fictional worlds bleeding into mainstream politics/culture? a few on my radar - pro choice activists dressed as handmaids - POTUS using GoT aesthetics - flashmob doing The OA movements at Trump hotel - Star Wars themed in flight safety vids

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 24

    Twitter alts as the enabling technology for integrating atomized selves into fluidity. Insights from

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  18. Jan 23

    there’s a lot of precedent for the kind of experimentation that’s happening in digital spaces—cosplay, LARP, improv, drag, to name a few. i’m curious to see how ideas about identity evolve as online/offline blend together and kids start challenging the norms of 2010s social media

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  19. Jan 23

    this post pairs well with MIT Tech Review’s new cover. from alt twitter to finstas to private snap stories, new media is allowing ppl to incubate new models of identity. these experiments can seem trivial but they’re an important psychological survival strategy for the info age

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  20. Jan 23

    props to , , , , , , and for a lot of the inspo here

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