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My brain on flu. https://t.co/y5bbdUmmkJ https://t.co/qTDl3UwVKP
What are ethnomethods?What is that Wittgenstein on about?Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.https://t.co/eGNs46Laxw https://t.co/kv81KObmdt
Lets talk about some game theory, Schelling points, and how the nature of being basic is a self-catalyzing process when viewed thru the lens of Garfinkel.https://t.co/tMTOasJfue https://t.co/XvlHd6r2LF
The divide between the lolcow and the troll, is that the lolcow is a unintentional scapegoat used by society to enforce a social Schelling point by being a public victim of ridicule; and the troll is someone who's in on the cosmic joke.https://t.co/kUMI7kzgwJ https://t.co/mM39usdqWf
What do you mean metaphors are built up over time and rely on shared connections with the past, and this mechanism is subverted by the omniscient nature of the memex, allowing memes to subvert the forces of normalicy decay ...https://t.co/0RT6476ygK
Thus forcing memetic enclaves, rapid formation of ingroups, intensive identity politics/policing, and alternative costly signaling mechanisms being invented to preserve trust and avoid outsiders from subverting our sense-making networks?https://t.co/b4mOxI3dyu
We have a germ theory;we invented penicillin to fight off infectious disease. We have a meme theory; we don't have penicillin to fight off infectious ideas.So we burn ourselves alive, self-quarantining, splitting into tribes to avoid the plague. Just like we did in the past.
I realized tonight: everyone outside of my family whom I've ever loved have been effectively carriers of the flu - no symptoms during the fever phase, but susceptible to coughing.I am an incubator of disease who falls in love with plague bearers.https://t.co/Zts6Rs9B3a
In every bunch there is a bad apple. So you get 'em drunk on fermented sauce & dare 'em implicitly by boldly stating things like "You can’t poop on the sidewalk" and "Robots don't like being upside down; like a post tortoise in the middle of the desert".https://t.co/31uoVKgasv
This is really smart: using the customer's own effort to scan their groceries as the data-harvesting method for automating item detection.https://t.co/xPYC0qIv99
I know it's smart because I have CAD plans for doing exactly that with a a little caddy that sits in the shopping cart's seat area. But instead of increasing store revenue in-cart-advertising, it was meant to crowd source savings data.
I think too much about how to use shopping carts to change the social fabric of society; and how to affect the balance of power away from those who engineer our environments to take advantage of our wants and desires.That and how grocery giants are tech companies in disguise.
Instacart in competition with Large Shopping Chain? Who could have seen this coming?https://t.co/96EGknsrnBhttps://t.co/gEzzzPpW90
Walking around a grocery center's parking lot, pretending i'm an algorithm. Recreating 'Harold Garfinkel’s tutorial cases' as a form of self-ethnomethodology. Musing on actual salesman traveling around like ants; what it might imply about social cognition.https://t.co/8Lv8V3W51p
That paper cites this book. Brilliant quote."I sketch the path on a piece of paper. It is a sequence of irregular, angular segments—not quite a random walk, for it has an underlying sense of direction, of aiming toward a goal."https://t.co/negWXwkOnE
Bored and lonely, trying to survive on scraps of society. A mad boy obsessed with ants who can't even support himself pushing around shopping carts. And yet he persists, a not quite random walk, aiming toward a goal. chemotaxis.https://t.co/BvuJwnCwi5https://t.co/doezxogTMU
"Thus, we define Developmental Ecological Psychology as an evolving, open discipline, seeking and finding principled cross-fertilization with a broad array of other relevant streams of thought."https://t.co/PqQEJa241J
(The 'Cybernetics' of Social Control and Power)"sociologists are generally unfamiliar with the control-theory perspective, and because it challenges many of our usual ways of thinking about human behavior, I start by describing the theory in some detail"https://t.co/3CaFknetPg
"Like multiple friends reinforcing a social behavior, the presence of multiple diseases makes an infection more contagious that it would be on its own. [...] as in the case of a sneezing virus that helps to spread a second infection like pneumonia. "https://t.co/ZmUUZPXGIs
Can we stop focusing on the individual and think about the swarm?https://t.co/3cMd7tjP70
Our approach of trying implicate one particular microbe seems a hold-out from the germ theory of disease trying to finger specific disease actors. Further entrenched by entire pharmacological industry (+grant system) focused on finding specific microbes to vaccinate against.
"But enough about you, let’s talk about me for a while."Notes On R0https://t.co/m1GAnUq8Pi https://t.co/zkBEEYrBqr
'Networks, Models of Social Interaction, and the Dynamics of Infectious Disease'"to bring social scientists, and epidemiologists, and ecologists together: to think out how we can do better for emerging infectious disease" [2011] https://t.co/viyirAXaW9https://t.co/XzTUcKFzN1
I'm a saint; I put away other people's shopping carts and organize the corrals.https://t.co/xubB0jlfVt
What are ethnomethods anyway?https://t.co/hzeDZW3q6R
Fun Inversion: My disabled mom can't put her cart away at the end of her shopping trip b/c she's gets tired. Is she a bad person?Does Aldi's return system bias toward people who are poor and weak?Does being forgetful suggest poor moral character?https://t.co/GGUrJ0wmin
If putting a shopping cart away is how you model morality,and your answer doesn't take into account the spectrum of people's utility functions,and you blame not putting it away immediately on a character failure,are you just an flippant asshole?Or just naïve +quick to judge?
Signaling moral purity like some kind of panic.My ex wife would get mad at me for fixing the carts. Costly signaling? Get on my level.https://t.co/leBw387aU2
LOOK AT ME. I AM A GOOD PERSON.DONT EAT ME, THIS WILL KILL MY CHILDREN.(he doesn't actually have children)https://t.co/h8IoOOa2Ve
Become Diogenes they said.Hold your breath to spite them they said.https://t.co/udIk397LNO
Murder monkeys stories on who should live or die? -> really just an obscure way hint at selective breeding."The fact that some dogs were ritually buried while others were butchered suggests a complex set of beliefs regarding the place of dogs in society."https://t.co/WdylWWnvvc
Spit spreads disease, didn't you hear? Please ignore how there are antiviral peptides being made by healthy people's oral bacteria.Spitting on the side walk is unhygenic, you dirty heathen.https://t.co/OnBVyz4z1L
Suck on your own venom.https://t.co/T12VQefA9h
The ride, it never ends."We're wary about people going out to hunt the jararacussu around Brazil, thinking they're going to save the world. ... That's not it!"https://t.co/Vj0wrd8Gtohttps://t.co/BH5bzrYVe2
Shopping carts without handles. A lesson in solving a paradox.https://t.co/1dFnLhdAz9
Why aren't we focusing on superspreader events?https://t.co/ykvk1np9Jj
Ethnomethods considered harmful.https://t.co/EKtGnntpj5