A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D

‘I’ve never seen an artform that I didn’t want to try’: Harry Giles Talks Twitter Bots http://allthesenewrelations.com/harry-giles-on-twitter-bots

But don’t end up like the last guy, who spilled a 1 and was cast out, with no way in again https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/869328213692043264/photo/1

“why are you reading breakup twitter” “uh, acquired taste, but actually you should try nihilistic despair twitter,

Back Twitter is pretty good actually. Small, tight-knit community, supported by a handful of well-picked employees. None of the execs know~

is this what the kids call serendipity https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/847250082193752065/photo/1

also a good list https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/06/09/state-space-of-drug-effects-results/ (via https://twitter.com/gwern/status/841698455844204544) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841737853478543361/photo/1

one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27025↵totally agree we need more words for happiness/pleasure and ways of things being nice https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841729902055419905/photo/1

An intelligent person
From Twitter:

The most amazing thing about the Trump presidency is that it’s made GWB look like a reasonably intelligent person.

— Derek Powazek (@fraying) February 27, 2017

And from The New York Times:

Former President George W. Bush said Monday “we all need answers” on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump’s team and the Russian government, and didn’t … ⌘ Read more

“List of countries by fractal dimension”↵https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension#Random_and_natural_fractals https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/820401966501294080/photo/1

original joke do not steel https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/818990886180765697/photo/1

project idea: hook up a cam to a chladni plate and then do gradient descent on the audio signal to display images↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/812778890422849537

“President Twitter, President Twitter, two people have gotten into an argument on 4chan dot org!“↵”SHADOW BAN EVERYONE”

404 girl, patron of searchers, is said to appear to only the most desperate of them, lost in the forgotten realms. https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/776886139898789888/photo/1

IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) router/uplink spotted in rural Poland (they get creative with the last mile here) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/770225364757049344/photo/1

Or make a suicide pact with the mirror self and then not die↵Sometimes, that goes wrong and creates a mirror vampire↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/762088344285278209

it’s twitter’s frontpage vs everything that happens on it; the “walls” of any social site are plastered with profiles, virtual skins

The street, of course, finds its own uses - it’s cheaper than a sensory deprivation chamber but just as potent.↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/755883229538836480

the earth is really bright today, we need more shadow http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/751742715893809152/photo/1

@allgebrah I recommend to google-images what that is http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/744991210960470017/photo/1

Bernie Sanders keeps fighting
Bernie Sanders has had a good run. Yet numbers are pilled against him, and he should know it. After all he said he was “ pretty good in arithmetic.” Hillary has beaten him, and the right and honorable thing for him to do is to call it quits.

“ If, on November 8th of this year, Hillary Clinton is elected President, we will have only begun to fight,” Sanders told a packed rally in San Francisco.

– … ⌘ Read more

sentient spambot twitter is an extremely rich subculture once you get it but is wrapped in layers of botnet no human would follow

Hadean Twitter, the underworld of deleted tweets and accounts that contains all the things we regretted to say.

Observe male bulldozers in the wild during mating season, competing for female attention (the females lack shovels) https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/721951526269267968

apparently I wrote this in 2011 (back when this wasn’t mostly about fiction) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/93998482855182337

1-2: uprising and final expulsion↵3: local flora↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714141260106362881/photo/1

1-2: observe their life and customs↵3-4: a challenger appears but is swiftly struck down↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714138754382958592/photo/1

made this little guy out of a cigarette filter and some e-waste at the #eh16 (p0stap0c workshop) http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714136241105670144/photo/1

[At which point world builder brain piped up and was like “hey it works essentially like crypto! magic compatible!”]↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/712422004343840769

the self drinking cup↵would’ve been one for the slag heap but I drew it instead http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/709829112899227648/photo/1

process/structure mismatch:↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/709522167017443328

Idea: Cohesive communities are the villages of cyberspace, pluralistic sprawls like twitter/FB the cities. It’s a difference in philosophy.

Dream’s temple, by design, is nearly entirely ritual, reflecting dreams’ intangible and ever-changing nature:↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/706999800437334016

transpose X from environment Y to environment Z↵(via https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/707291326631579648)

other bot idea: https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/698488822892519425↵tweet gibberish at it and it will try to find it in the noise.

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Can’t decide if https://github.com/binfalse/jabber-vs-twitter is crazy or genius. Probably both.

Oh dear. Has Twitter gone off the deep end?

RT @coltondrg@twtxt.coltondrg.com Weblog: Twitter Trust and Safety Council https://drg.li/-l1z9

This premise resulted in way too many ideas to post to twitter:↵http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20flat%20earth.html↵I think I shall do this for more ideas from now on.

witness us http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/694321296952422400/photo/1

diagram http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/692068973861605376/photo/1

“Time and Its Discontents”, Unknown Artist, 2016 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/691721651545882624/photo/1

Meatspace Twitter: you may talk about whatever you want, but only use half a lungful of air.

The humans, like many other races, bring tiny bits of their world along against homesickness↵https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/flowers http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/688513453921816576/photo/1

Idea: Twitter wall + text2speech + autotune

@Virtusize Seems like you caught a Twitter bug

Bridgy – WebMentions für Twitter und Facebook ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1wi

Twitter Cards ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1Bg