constant escape

winter withered, warm
Yeah like in games like fallout 3 onward, where you literally have an arrow on your compass that you just follow. Might be able to deactivate it via settings, but the argument is that, if games are to fulfill anywhere near their potential as robust cognitive exercise, these crutches shouldn't be there at all. At least not as the default setting.
 

sus

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The cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky describes a cognitive change that happened to her while spending time among speakers of the Kuuk Thaayorre language in Pormpuraaw, Queensland, Australia. This language, like a third of all human languages, has the property of absolute direction reckoning: cardinal directions are used instead of relative directions like left and right. Relating one’s directional orientation is the proper response to the most common greeting, “where are you heading?” – and small children can easily report their directional heading from a list of over eighty possibilities. Boroditsky found reporting her exact directional orientation difficult at first, and suspects that she was considered intellectually dim for not being able to report her orientation. But after some practice, she experienced a radical change in her internal cartography:

After about a week of being there, I was walking along, and all of a sudden I noticed that in my head there was an extra little window, like in a video game. And in that console window was a bird’s-eye view of the landscape that I was walking on, and I was a little red dot that was traversing that landscape.

Boroditsky shared the cognitive change she experienced with a native speaker of the language, who commented, “well of course – how else would you do it?”
 

version

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The same thing happened with video games. You could only move in four directions at first then eight once you could move diagonally and now we have (I think) full range of movement.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
A friend of a friend is into drones like it’s a rehash of Tomorrows World. He films himself with some driving. Driving, is he that good at it? One of those email circles where you see the name and think oh-o, he’ll be telling me about A roads, all day breakfast cobs and fuck knows what else next.

Point of the reference is the overhead camera work is pretty impressive. He’s slowly getting into landmarks, castles, beaches and peaks, far more appealing. Never going to conjure the equivalent of the intro to The Sining, but the top down view, where the focus pulls back into a 360degrees panorama (while looking down in real time), is loads of fun.
 

catalog

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Drone view... I don't have one myself but at a lot of 'beauty spots' and the like, there's often someone with one.

I was up a mountain in scotland last year, stac pollaidh, having a slash, and heard this buzzing above me... really shit me up.

Spoke to the guy operating on the way down, explained that he would have a shot of me pissing on his footage, and it turned out he was staying at the same campsite as us so he showed me the video later on.

Quite funny. ended up looking at a few of his other videos. There's nothing some people like more than showing you their photos.

There's a standard setting he was using, where you send the drone up a specified height and then it does a perfect circle around the anchor point, (usually whoever the operator is, but you can set it to different stuff) shooting inwards on one loop, out on the other. It felt very voyeuristic and vaguely militaristic cos of the mechanised/dispassionate movement.

I've never been tempted to buy one but it's the sort of thing I could see myself getting into if i got one for Christmas or something.
 

version

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I dunno Version's really let me down this thread, "work chronologically," OK buddy. Really, my respect for him just keeps plummeting.

Whereas you Linebaugh have told me some favorite tracks that also represent formal bookends of the artist's style!
I've recently been picturing a given body of work like a web of connections, perhaps like a pass map from a football match, with each, say, Autechre album being a given point with a load of lines connecting them all based on the order in which you encountered them, how many times you've listened to them and so on.

It's interesting to consider how the order impacts your view of the whole. Would a different order change your view in any way? Does engaging with the material over time gradually overwrite your own idiosyncratic order until it settles into the original order they appeared in? If you read Ulysses prior to Portrait then become very familiar with them, does Portrait eventually slot itself in front of Ulysses regardless?

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catalog

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When I was at uni, my mate, let's call him patch, he was richer than all of us and used to pay for more things. Like if we all went to the pub, he would buy the first round, then we would all buy smaller micro rounds, that sort of thing. It was all fine, no big issues either way.

But then one day, close to the end of the 3 years, something happened, I can't remember what, maybe someone showed how tight they were, and he said, "I can't wait till they publish the receipts of who spent what".

At the time (2001) it was a ludicrous proposition and we all just laughed a lot.

But we are actually getting close to that sort of position now aren't we.

You should soon be able to see the whole map of things.
 

version

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I had a friend who had a little spreadsheet in his phone to keep track of who owed him what. It was a little odd, but I get the reasoning behind it.
 

version

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You can kind of do it already with stuff like the analytics tools on blogging platforms. You can look at a world map and see where people are visiting from and how many of them are visiting.
 

catalog

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That's where it starts, the attention economy. But once we go fully cashless, there will be a way to connect it all amongst friends I'm sure. That will be a new app.
 

version

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A map of Moby-Dick in this vein would be interesting. A network of geographical locations, references. You could argue the book itself is already that map, mind you. Tom McCarthy did some sort of map of it for an installation or exhibition, but I can't find the clip where he talks about it.

There are people doing stuff like digital analysis of novels now too. Something like this is pretty dull, imo, but the general idea of it intrigues me,
 

version

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It seems like an easy way to ruin things. You could end up breaking down all these great novels into horrible, sterile charts and components until all the life's been drained out of them.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
That is mental but yes, soon it will happen for us I don't doubt it. We're very close
Thats exactly what a blockchain can enable, although probably without associating transaction history with legal identity. You would have to know a person's wallet address to inspect their transaction history.

But yeah go to blockchain.com and you can see every bitcoin transaction ever made. From whom, to whom, how much, and when.
 

catalog

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It seems like an easy way to ruin things. You could end up breaking down all these great novels into horrible, sterile charts and components until all the life's been drained out of them.

I think that was one of the first applications of textual AI, someone crunching Shakespeare to try to answer whether he had written them all
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
The legal identity thing could be if it were a fiat cryptocurrency such as a CBDC, in which case a central authority would have access to the transaction history of a given legal identity.
 
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