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Turns out that Threadapalooza, though largely an unmotivated accident, ended up provoking some interesting thoughts related to my main topic of interest in recent years, temporality.
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Specifically, the question of calling the end of a "race" when everybody is sort of racing in their own time/tempo under different cognitive circumstances with no shared rules, kinda like the Mock Turtle race in Alice in Wonderland
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It's actually a well-posed mathematical question too: when do you call something like this "done", given that not everybody is even trying to cross the 100-tweet finish line? And how do you attribute a race time to them when they do their thread in 2-3 sessions instead of 1?
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An aspect of the race is, depending on the topic you chose/were given, it may or may not unleash a sort of wound-up set of thoughts you didn't know you had. It may cross threshold of banality into new territory at 35 or 75. Each thread is a narrative scan of threader's brain.