The New Transparency

[catalog]

It's a moment where you can appreciate yourself as something else.

 

[version]

I can feel it happening to me when I spend too much time online. The whole 'Archivist' thing.

 

[luka]

those examples dont match the intensity and the exposure that the passage talks about though. thats more heavy psychedelics really.

 

[catalog]

Is that not more going into a mode, putting on a suit and mask? I have that too, if I'm drawing or writing a lot, and you recognise a pattern of things. I find it distressing though.

 

[catalog]

those examples dont match the intensity and the exposure that the passage talks about though. thats more heavy psychedelics really.

What the passage is heavy psycs you mean?

 

[version]

You can argue it applies to everyone, but there are degrees to it, imo. It's much more obvious in people who spend a lot of time online than people who don't. The weird, liberal journalists on Twitter from the US spring to mind. They just regurgitate each other's headlines and talking points whilst glued to the news cycle.

 

[luka]

What the passage is heavy psycs you mean?

thats the experience he is describing yes

 

[catalog]

You can argue it applies to everyone, but there are degrees to it, imo. It's much more obvious in people who spend a lot of time online than people who don't. The weird, liberal journalists on Twitter from the US spring to mind. They just regurgitate each other's headlines and talking points whilst glued to the news cycle.

Our sensory organs (twitter employs at least vision, hearing, touch) are merely conduits for the flow of spurious information.

 

[WashYourHands]

Was on page 11 but skipped forward a few to say you can make your own garlic bread and it’ll be banging

 

[woops]

in my local shop you can buy "black garlic" don't know what that is or want to know.

 

[luka]

in my local shop you can buy "black garlic" don't know what that is or want to know.

only in stoke newington

 

[luka]

do you eat garlic btw? any type of garlic

 

[WashYourHands]

Roast garlic clove in olive oil for a bit, ad a bit of butter at end

Smear on quality baguette, grill for a few mins

Rush your bollocks off

 

[luka]

i was thinking smash up a whole head of garlic and mix it with a slab of butter then coat a sliced baggette with it. i want
it to taste like the eighties garlic bread of my childhood. but more so.

 

[woops]

do you eat garlic btw? any type of garlic

it's my duty innit, i reek of garlic

 

[woops]

it's my duty innit, i reek of garlic

except i can't tell cos of all the fags

 

[Clinamenic]

A good 2 minute clip at 52:40, this Edward Tufte talk, who is apparently a data science mogul.



He says, if you are doing creative work, not to start your day with "addicting time-vampire" activities like email, social media, newsletters, etc., but to instead start your creative work right away. He said that many creative workers have independently made this discovery.

 

[luka]

hes not wrong but does he look like a man whos ever done 'creative work' to you?

 

[woops]

i can get behind that point too as i've said on here before. try to write 3 pages first thing every morning

 

[Clinamenic]

hes not wrong but does he look like a man whos ever done 'creative work' to you?

That talk of his did reveal a deep scientism (the obligatory jab at astrology, which granted does often supplant people's rationality in silly ways), but setting him aside I do think that there is a ton of room for creativity in presenting data.