Here's my BOLD NEW VISION for twitter: https://otherorders.net . It turns twitter into an html table that you can sort in 29 different ways. Sort your feed alphabetically, by length of tweet, most emojis, most apocalyptic, most marxist, most neoliberal, most erotic, and more!
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You can also use it the sort text of any kind. For example here is the most
@dril like sentence in Candid by Voltaire: "Candide caressed his sheep."1 reply 1 retweet 24 likesShow this thread -
And here are the top 10 most
@TEDTalks-like sentences in "The Judgement" by Kafka.pic.twitter.com/L95fW523uS
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A few more examples of sorting literary texts.pic.twitter.com/x6IxcBCHzw
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Recommendation engines, like the ones powering Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, are designed to keep you online for as long as possible for the sake of maximizing ad revenue.
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In doing so, they promote the most reactionary content on their platforms. But, at the root of it, these systems are nothing more than sorting mechanisms. Other Orders is an alternate set of sorts, optimized for other outcomes.
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PS - I'm happy to add more sorting mechanisms to the project - just let me know, or file an issue on github if you have any ideas:https://github.com/antiboredom/other-orders …
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Replying to @sam_lavigne
Can you create "most Heidegger" "most Adorno" and "most Metal" (the latter based on wordlist and ümläuts)?
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