I have decided that "post truth" can be translated into "curved zeitgeist". Now I just have to map the rest of relativity theory to blogging and collect my igNobel prize.
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Okay, I'm not done yet. Content lives in a discrete symbol space, relativity is continuous space, so you have to modify ideas of spatial curvature to reflect discrete structures. This tweet on game level design (ht
@visakanv gets at the idea)https://twitter.com/radiatoryang/status/765976617378349056 …
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Not really kidding about this... my old mental model of ribbonfarm was a flat map, this was the last version:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/08/the-greater-ribbonfarm-cultural-region-2015/ …
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The map I'm developing now situates ribbonfarm at the mouth of a wormhole that I think of as the 'great weirding' wormhole to the future. The mouth is 3 piece-wise locally flat map areas around the mouth.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1088566620241375232 …
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The limit of solipsism is what a friend of mine called "vanishing past your own event horizon". Late style is vanishing past your own event horizon in writing. Elderblogging is hopefully a wormhole into a continued infinite game instead.
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If I degenerate into complete incomprehensibility in the next couple of years, you'll know I've gone blackhole. But if I start making sense again, it was a wormhole. Only way to figure out which it is is to dive in :D
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I might owe an unconscious debt to Scott McCloud's idea of a "picture plane", which is also a triangle, for my current conceptualization of the space in which textual content "lives" http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/triangle/11.html …pic.twitter.com/aaOuPmESUU
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McCloud's triangle has vertices of abstraction, resemblance, and meaning. Mine has vertices of domestic, public, and frontier spaces.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/06/27/been-there-done-that/ …
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If you want to grok where I'm going with this thread and the previous one on frenet-serret equations without the nerdy pop-math/pop-science analogies, it's really just getting at the form-content coupling that's created by the internet.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1095071402367971328 …
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One of the deeper mistakes I made in my brief career as a product manager of web products is to not fully realize the extent to which the web's form is shaped by the content it invites, in a chicken-egg evolution. The medium is the message AND the message is the medium.
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Like where you're going. Increase in velocity (kinetic energy) of your scalar (viral tweets due to textual density) adds mass to your threads. Increased mass in your twitterspace increases probability of blackhole manifestion elsewhere. Ribbonfarm becomes gateway to the wormhole.
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