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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      figured something out probably video actually is bad for understanding things that have happened more often than not

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      biology textbooks are interesting because they're often lovingly illustrated with blown out drawings in lots of colors with labels but sometimes interspersed are photos of (eg) cells under microscopes the latter, despite being a "true" image, are often less useful for learning

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      here for example is a stained slide of some epithelial tissue (or some other kind, who knows) in fact here are a bunch of kinds of tissue (a bunch of similar cells) stain and magnification aside--themselves an visual aides--this is what cells "look" like what have you learned?pic.twitter.com/SAMSDLAEmN

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      Here is another depiction of a cell It is not at all what a cell "looks" like as you can see from above But I bet it is much more useful in finding out about cells: it has lots of labels, different bits that are invisible above are colored in contrast and blown up, and so onpic.twitter.com/obfIr6bp3g

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      Both of these are useful of course, and complimentary. Without knowing much about cells, the carefully laid out diagram is much more helpful in learning a bit about what the hell a cell is. Of course, if you only saw the diagram you would be missing other crucial context.

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      Videos of (eg) police shootings are great because historically police controlled narratives around police violence; people got to see a diagram of a cell drawn by cells. Very tidy, very helpful, and in this case deeply misleading Video makes such authorial abuses difficult

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      at the same time, videos are really not complete evidence; they suppress information and elide context

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      Blake was repeatedly shot in the back . . . maybe carrying a knife, after someone reported a violent rape (not depicted) Floyd died while a cop kneeled on him . . . with vast quantities of fentanyl in his system (not depicted)

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

      I'm not offering a judgment about any of these cases per se Rather just want to highlight that in every case the immediate public reaction is based entirely on rapidly-available video that is evaluated exclusively on its own merits sans any diagram analogue

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        1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020

          Video is incomplete, moves very quickly online without context, and as audiovisual information is much more evocative that prose is difficult to criticize So Expect lots of dumb decisions made on the basis of it going forward I guess Contemplate this on the Tree of Woepic.twitter.com/8Xbz88Cwk4

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Aug 2020
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          YUP

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        2. Jim‏ @Editordie 1 Sep 2020
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          The human mind is fantastic at building narratives from small pieces of information and video simply provides juicier breadcrumbs than other media. Taken out of context your previous tweet looks very much like suggested causality and so suffers from the same phenomenon.

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        3. Jim‏ @Editordie 1 Sep 2020
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          Context is kingpic.twitter.com/SDedaa1OmQ

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        1. skepticalifornia‏ @skepticaliblog 1 Sep 2020
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          Judgement by Hot Take Rashomon

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