New advances in type of guy theory:
Making explicit what is implicit:
Systems of classyness:
(But of course, data usually just confirms what inexact scientists such as cultural critics already knew. Lindsay Zoladz, 2014:
“I’ve recently started to suspect that bragging about cultural omnivorousness has become its own form of snobbery, and that the new face of music-nerd elitism is not the High Fidelity bro but instead the Twitter user who would very much like you to applaud him for listening to Ke$ha and Sunn O))) and Florida Georgia Line and Gucci Mane and …”
People are starting to notice our mascot:
Tenure writ large:
Aka “getting dressed each morning”:
Speaking of signaling (click for Gossip Girl thread):
On the end of oughts blogging (thread):
Synthesizers need to stop trying to impress each other so much, the result is shallow
“generalism”:
Thread on language. The problem is people thinking in terms of objective boundaries, defensible across all possible cases, instead of basing definitions in pragmatic cultural needs. Tomatoes aren't a fruit because you can't put them in a fruit salad!
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Where will the Schelling points to meet-up in VR be?
The Internet is a once-in-many-lifetimes opportunity to study how norms, ethnomethods, and interaction rituals pop up in realtime to suit a new domain:
New types of guy:
And:
And:
Interesting thread of introspection on one’s instinctual repulsion from “positivity” spaces:
History of the present:
GAN art spreads:
Herd behavior and flow: