My feed seems weirdly mistuned. Like a radio tuned to the wrong channel. But I haven’t been able to retune it. 🤔
Not sure what I’m looking for. I’ll know when I find it.
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Tweeting also feels off. Like when you can’t get into a flow on a run. Stride off somehow. Tempo broken.
Both input and output have felt broken since mid-Covid year. Like August.
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Actually many things have gone this way. TV especially.
Pros: watched Expanse, Community, Schitts Creek, all shows I’d dismissed pre-pandemic.
Cons: Old pre-Weirding favorites like Psych suddenly lost a lot of rewatch appeal.
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Nuke options don’t feel like quite the right answer.
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Considered this. Feels drastic. Did turn off RTs for lots of people though. twitter.com/glipsman/statu…
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The frequency I *want* to be tuned to feels like it should have mood elements of:
X-files
Asimov Foundation series
Culture novels*
Mid 15th century
Cthulhu mythos
Oceans
23rd century hard scifi
IoT
Anarchism
Post-money
* main binge last year that felt on-mood
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It’s not people, it’s topics I think. Need to refactor my input categories. I don’t really follow people so much as themes. But the ontology of themes is wrong atm and I can’t think of words to describe what to drop/add. Gotta unfactor and remap the signal territory or something.
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Replying to @vgr
considered getting a bot that automatically mutes people if you don’t interact with them? And then maybe un-mutes them for a week to see if you interact with them again?
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Oddly enough humor isn’t a big part of the mood frequency. I usually orient around a humor vector. A way to laugh. This feels like a rare drama vector.
Big part is sharp decline in verbal acuity that I think is quarantine related not aging. Like often feeling like I’m searching for words. I think that’s a function of not being around people talking/ambient conversation enough.
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Everything I hear now is either intentional (zoom meetings) or scripted (tv, books) or curated (Twitter). I think language atrophies without ambient overhearing of random shit.
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I’ve noticed my writing getting either stylized/mannered or much simpler. I haven’t had natural flows of just light wordplay fun in months.
I can’t, for eg, write shit like this at all right now.
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It’s a sense of unprocessed uncanny like I’m missing something really big that will suddenly become doh! obvious.
Like trying to grok what a thump shriek thump sound is and then Godzilla steps around the corner and you go “of course! it was Godzilla all along.... AAARGH RUN!”
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Waiting for Godzillot
That’s it. It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Shoe 1: uncanny world-state-dysphoria signals
Shoe 2: world comes out identifying as Godzilla world
Or Cthulhu. Godzilla feels more neutral.
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Need to tune into Godzilla channel
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Just before Covid I was thinking about the world being in a pupal stage, about to emerge anew...
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New conclusion: the great weirding is a pupal stage
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In hindsight the re-tuning I’ve been doing in the last six months has largely been about dropping map feeds in favor of territory feeds. The latter are a lot less “efficient.” They present phenomenology without compact vocabularies.
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