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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Mar 2016

    “Make illegal states unrepresentable.” — Yaron Minsky

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 27

    a blog post written by a literal banana explaining indexicality

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  3. Jan 22

    "nobody is allowed to be bad, and nothing potentially upsetting happens to anyone" horror.

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  4. Jan 22
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  5. Jan 14

    communicative ratchets

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  6. Jan 14

    quantum meruit

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 9

    Random thought on metaphor: in engineering, your "argument" is always grounded in a structure "beneath" your construction: the UI is grounded in code, which is grounded in the OS, which is grounded in the processor's logic, which is grounded in circuitry and ultimately physics.

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  8. 8 Dec 2019

    prayer is cheaper than therapy

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  9. 21 Nov 2019

    overripening horror. (at the point the fruit is most ripe it starts to rot.)

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  10. 21 Nov 2019

    aspiration horror. (what if we don't get what we deserve, and the steady work we do to get somewhere is a slow self-mutilation that ends in our ruin.)

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  11. 21 Nov 2019

    modern horrors. financial horror bureaucratic horror atomisation horror hedonic treadmill horror

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  12. 6 Nov 2019

    capitalise

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  13. Retweeted
    18 Jun 2019

    Is there a word for precision that makes things less robust? In this case thinking of a deadbolt bathroom lock that’s perfectly aligned vs a hook and loop lock. One stops working if the door warps a little

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  14. 29 Aug 2019
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    "Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour" Like clockwork. They are slowly setting up a heavily regulated environment that only they will be able to afford.

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    29 Aug 2019
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  16. 22 Aug 2019

    (basically: a restricted palette can sometimes be more functional. and a language is a palette generated by the speech of a culture.)

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  17. 22 Aug 2019

    speech accords language palette

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  18. 22 Aug 2019

    A lot of the time I just laugh it off, but I worry that not being on the same wavelength could leave me with a lack of feedback on my beliefs. (And how do we truly know if we're being understood or not.)

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  19. 22 Aug 2019

    A common experience nowadays is carefully thinking of a response to something somebody says only for them to respond to me as if what I said was extremely superficial and missing what I felt was the point.

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  20. 22 Aug 2019

    nuance enclosure

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  21. 13 Aug 2019
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