@GabrielDuquette It's primarily experimental thinking I'm writing up 90% for my own benefit. I rarely try to think about why others read
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@GabrielDuquette I mean deliberately using unreadability as a defense. Obfuscation. In my case, ribbonfarm at least is pure laziness. -
@vgr@GabrielDuquette maybe a good exercise for bloggers would be to go over your own work and sum up every post in a tweet.
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@soapjackal @wargfranklin There's a meta thing going with pomo writers in that they seem to want uncomprehending groupies held in thrall - 1 more reply
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@soapjackal @wargfranklin one of my favorite essays. Also see "On Smarm" that it inspired. - 1 more reply
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@vgr False. Unreadable to who? Every expression implies an audience, and every audience is limited in some way. -
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@sevensixfive I mean unreadability as a consciously deployed defensive strategy, as with patent lawyers. Much more common than people think - 3 more replies
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@vgr being unreadable for this reason was never defensible; just easier to catch nowThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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