Making behavior legible and subject to empirical analysis is not a unalloyed good. As a downside, it tends to centralize power and authority, and almost inevitably turns the sculpture of what we are back into a big and unrefined block of marble.
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@jack has defended, whatever his motives may have been) is the messy fucking noise of very low friction expression. That's the engine.Show this thread -
...of course, twitter is centralized and flattens us in ways we cannot see.
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