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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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      There’s a persistent community of taste emerging around sensemaking of noisy social media around developing events. It’s like fandom, with connoisseurs of the play by play getting snotty. Things like the Minneapolis strife end up being processed like concerts.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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      The interesting thing is that competing interpretive dance aesthetics evolve around the *same* event, with projected grammars, tropes ,and apophenia patterns. And people who just want make sense of the event run afoul of those building interpretation institutions.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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      Like if the same concert were being watched by Beatles fans, Bach fans, and Grimes fans, each sorting signal and noise differently to extract unique “truth” performances. Asking a question offends them all.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          There are no innocent questions when tastemakers corner sensemaking. Questions mark you as either dumb or bad faith guy on the Other Team. The presumption is that there are no spectators, only participants. And participants don’t ask questions publicly, only to trusted team mates

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          The only public discourse allowed around doubt is: “Is X true?” “How dare you entertain doubt around X?”

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          Publicly expressed doubt is weakness in a participant so if all are presumed participants, nobody can express or explore doubts publicly. Fwiw, I downgrade the credibility of anyone who acts like the news is a concert and that asking questions is philistinism/gaucherie.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          One of the perks of being willing to look foolish and tasteless publicly is that you get a better sense of where actual foolishness lies. It can generally be found lurking under aesthetic confidence in one’s own interpretive stance. A kind of aesthetic Dunning-Kruger effect.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          I genuinely don’t give a crap about whether unfolding events validate priors of this or that interpretive stance better. If your dance troupe got it right this time it might get it wrong next time and vice versa. Get over yourself. What matters is establishing what happened.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          Twitter sensemaking isn’t a science. No matter how strongly you believe in the superior validity of your ideological inference engine, it’s as limited by noisy facts trickling in as the others. It will not consistently outperform others or be always right.

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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          I may have been developing a beef/grudge against all news sensemaking aesthetic subcultures for a while. I’m tired of being patronized by six conflicting dance troupes, each convinced of its artistic and moral superiority, every time events like this unfold.

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        1. Song Avram Boriskin O.‏ @butanmist May 28
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          Then use a bullhorn. Past time people grew up. The emperor has never had clothes.

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        1. Jeremy Dunck‏ @jdunck May 28
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          Lenses are powerful when we can't see clearly, or when we can't see everything at once. But here we are subject to lenses because we lack attentional focus, context is lost, our vision obscured. Truth remains, if we can clear our eyes.

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        2. Alex McElvain‏ @alexmce May 28
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          Am I reading right this right if it suggests to me that it positions everybody else as a fan of a given artist and you as unencumbered by fandom/the only person seeing the concert clearly

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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          I’m saying nobody is seeing clearly and I’m among those willing to admit it. The illusion of clarity is the cost of fandom.

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