Suspended's thread

[luka]

Ah.... but why? Not just long-windedness surely?

lets call it 'the shaggy dog effect'

 

[sus]

Gus post us one of your things again. let's see if we can get under the hood as the americans say

Oh jeez I dunno if I have anything up to snuff though I suppose the point is being bad

I write here too though. And El Morado. The blog is often more technical and flatter

 

[Clinamenic]

luke as "Harry N. Bone"

Corpsey can be a buccaneer method cosplayer in an urban scenario, an analog/proxy to the average urban subject who is now thrust into the post-urban/crypto scenario.

 

[sus]

On the vibe shift, pt 1: Worldbuilding

See Part 2: Nameless, Faceless. Chatting with a friend last week, I mentioned I was writing a party report on the Lisbon ETH conferences for Spike. She said she was surprised. That there was a narc…

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[sus]

That's my good prose though my flat boring prose that I need to work on and improve is more like https://suspendedreason.com/2021/12/31/linguistic-fit/

 

[sus]

So let's talk about that, so I can reflect and get feedback and grow and stop writing flat boring unreadable garbage

 

[sus]

(1) I should cut out the passive voice
(2) I should never "one" as a pronoun

 

[luka]

Oh jeez I dunno if I have anything up to snuff though I suppose the point is being bad

I write here too though. And El Morado. The blog is often more technical and flatter

i dont think the point is being bad.

 

[sus]

How do I stop writing like an incredibly boring drafty old scholar while still being clear and not too colorful to repel people.

How do I write in a way formal enough an academic would cite me but informal enough I don't bore the tits off everyone else

 

[luka]

whats interesting for me, like i literally just said, are the effects generated. and your things have a strange effect on me, like thirds do, or rich. i dont look at it and go, thats bad, i look at it and go, why cant i get close to that?

 

[sus]

It's okay we can all admit it's bad and boring without condemning third and Rich by association

 

[sus]

El Morado is not bad and boring and Vibe Shift pt 1 is at least trying very hard not to be bad and boring, but much of the rest of the blog stuff objectively is

 

[luka]

That's my good prose though my flat boring prose that I need to work on and improve is more like https://suspendedreason.com/2021/12/31/linguistic-fit/

well in this case its easy to say whats bad and boring about it, your writing it like its for school

 

[sus]

And it's not even trying not to be bad and boring that's the first problem

 

[luka]

'in this essay i will...'

 

[sus]

well in this case its easy to say whats bad and boring about it, your writing it like its for school

How do I write in a way formal enough an academic would cite me but informal enough I don't bore the tits off everyone else

 

[sus]

I don't know any other ways because I am bad and boring. And lazy. It's the lazyness. If I work hard I can be interesting. Instead I slide into lazy default dreadful

 

[Clinamenic]

Something I see in @suspended 's writing, as I'm reading through vibe shift now and which I've noticed for a while here, is that this method of discursive screening, of propagating theory outward, can often be like sifting for gold, resulting in a lot of junk matter in proportion to nuggets.

I also see it when I look back on a lot of my posts here and my handwritten notes over the last few years: tidal waves of complex layerings and qualifiers, extensive methodological scaffoldings of verbiage, all in roundabout attempts to reach conclusions that are out of the line of sight of the established/down-to-earth approach.

That is, the function of pretension in thought: a stretching toward something that would otherwise be out of reach.

 

[Clinamenic]

7 steps sideways, 1 step back, 3 steps forward, etc.

 

[luka]

im going to find the real gus stuff. this isnt the right stuff. wait there.