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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 25

      What is the densest general interest writing you know of (ie that does not rely on either specialized jargon or require specialized background information on the part of the reader)? Most general-purpose meaning packed into the fewest general purpose words.

      36 replies 2 retweets 35 likes
    2. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
      Replying to @vgr

      visakan veerasamy Retweeted visakan veerasamy

      knee-jerk answerhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/956460114508001281 …

      visakan veerasamy added,

      visakan veerasamy @visakanv
      My favorite essay of all time was written in 2011, and pretty much predicted the inevitability of today's culture wars (because it happened throughout history over and over again with the advent of each new piece of new media tech) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information … pic.twitter.com/m7qBdier6V
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    3. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
      Replying to @visakanv @vgr

      but seeing @danlistensto mention Nabokov and Borges – yeah – Balzac, Dostoeyevsky, Tolstoy, Proust

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Sep 25
      Replying to @visakanv @vgr

      honestly Borges felt like a cheat response due to intentionally fractal narrative structure

      2:38 PM - 25 Sep 2018
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      • Nicolas Colin 🇪🇺 daijirinkun StubbornLights visakan veerasamy
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        2. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
          Replying to @danlistensto @vgr

          ... @dril

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
          Replying to @visakanv @danlistensto and

          visakan veerasamy Retweeted wint

          what's denser than this? checkmatehttps://twitter.com/dril/status/922321981 …

          visakan veerasamy added,

          wint @dril
          no
          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 25
          Replying to @visakanv @danlistensto

          I actually don’t get why dril is famous. I think you need a lot of background context to understand what he’s getting at, so disqualified by my criteria

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
          Replying to @vgr @danlistensto

          visakan veerasamy Retweeted wint

          at the risk of overanalyzing, I think it's like... the persona's incoherence and irreverence allows the author to parody, mock and shit on everything all at once while being simultaneously impervious to criticism. it's refreshingly senselesshttps://twitter.com/dril/status/1035887170832089093 …

          visakan veerasamy added,

          wint @dril
          thinking about taking some of the excess respect I have for our Fallen Heroes and converting it in to Cold Hard Cash
          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
        6. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
          Replying to @visakanv @vgr @danlistensto

          visakan veerasamy Retweeted wint

          this one is masterful, where do you even start, lol. I get tickled imagining the reactions of every "serious" person if they were forced to read it – obama, trump, peterson, harris, musk, taleb... whoever. just cracks me up. even diogenes etchttps://twitter.com/dril/status/1030909212975489024 …

          visakan veerasamy added,

          wint @dril
          people will tell me shit like "oh you cant say kofi annan was no fap. no evidence" and i say, how dare you sully a mans grave, with politics
          2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 25
          Replying to @visakanv @danlistensto

          This feels like something other than density. More like degree of non sequiturness.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        8. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Sep 25
          Replying to @vgr @danlistensto

          yeah true.pic.twitter.com/fsKsReEOtp

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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