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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 8
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖

      Done well, I think online-first is soon going to be way better. Just as digital text done right gets way better (hypertext etc) than paper. Need a word for this. Hypercommunity/hyperevent like hypertext. 😎 The physical-presence-necessary will shrink party —> meetups —> sexhttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1236748367398494208 …

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      I've been biting my tongue for about two weeks now: "Remote conference" completely misunderstands the purpose of conferences and is DOA. The entire point of a conference is that it's not remote.
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      The mode I’d like to see tried is federated local, with modest travel to crosspollinate local cells. Form local cells of ~15 with access to zoom rooms. 1 person from each cell randomly flies to another cell for the event.

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      TikTok is hyperdancing. Dance has been eaten by software. Goal: Spacer worlds of Asimov. Everybody gets to live in a clean low-density virtual planet and visit the disease-ridden caves of steel wearing N95 masks on occasion. Or send robots. Mine will be named R. Daneel.

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          Elsewhere I’m stanning cruise ships though. Cruise ships are great, the hell with uppity DFW snobbery about them. Just need more tech to control disease onboard.

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          Yup, that's my dream. Western Europe could have become this if they cared more about federalization and homogeneization and less about preserving the national cultures.

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          I made a rambling thread on tech and street dance, how it both got eaten + adapted to tech at the same timehttps://twitter.com/alien_nessie/status/1230360334839504896 …

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          Street dancers used to argue all day about whether or not Redbull, America's Best Dance Crew, the Olympics etc. were selling out the culture. There were other heated targets too, like basically every dance studio that supposedly teaches "hip-hop dance." https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1230218226992173056 …
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