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For people you know well, you develop mental models of them to judge how they'd perceive your actions. Running a prosthesis of another's meaning making architecture within your own mind. Some might call this emotional labor. I call it making friends.https://t.co/wg79Lwq5pG
Before we moved the data to the program, now we are moving programs to the data.Each ant a sovereign, and yet we are still stronger together.Loose fitting boundaries of life, a form of collaborative meaning making.The universe making fun of itself.Aeternitas non humanus erit.
My secret to Twitter is to follow both of these accounts and be subtly influenced by the ebb and flow of my network's emotional state and by generating mental tulpas of those I care about - fluctuating between both strategies in response. https://t.co/QkHY3Y6UTh
I love that this is the complete opposite of my strategy. My secret to Twitter is to explode my identity across infinite dimensions, and then tweet about every topic imaginable. I like to think I’m authentic, though maybe the lack of specialization might be a worry/concern 🤔 https://t.co/OekA9T6upb
"the characters of pseudonymous Twitter are developing new conceptions of selfhood that are sorely needed in a time when old scripts are unraveling. In order to understand how identity might evolve in the future, we first need to investigate its past."https://t.co/DSZ4g1FYpd