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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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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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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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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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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It's like watching social media and the news is the preferred activity of our time for a certain subculture. Not being completely up-to-date is a rejection of group identity and social norms.
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