1. u wld prob not like him he does
3. twitter
3. essays
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Been on it for a week - twitter feed is a mix: from old ilx/Live Journal to following a lot of arts and lit based stuff that means I don't need my bookmarks/subscribe to emails anymore.
Have bought Finnegans Wake on the basis of its account - which extracts a line from it every few mins. Fools you into thinking its an easy read.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I thought it would take away my energies from ilx-ing but at the moment I am still posting on here. xp
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
i wish i read jeet heer but whenever i try like a Full Third of a sixty-part twit-essay is dedicated to him announcing his realness
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
twitter essays are an automatic unfollow for me.
― ryan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
i follow a few hardline communists for some reason, one of whom is a former ilxor and mtl hipster LOL
didn't know s1ocki was so red
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
there's also something about the smug way "intellectualism" is performed on twitter that really puts me off...like that seemingly patient, here let me break it down for you 140 characters at a time kind of thing.
― ryan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
worst part might be people "discovering" political thought and opining about it in the most vapid ways and then getting retweeted by people who find them visionary
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
i like twitter essays more stuff shld be written in bullet pt form imo
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
also i really like the thing phil elverum said about twitter, that just the mechanics of reading it mean you can say “Here, think this thought really quick”, can super directly convey something abstract in this really open context, space, people's attention span so wide & then specific. like the language part of it is really lovely, i think, to have access to this fragmentary branch of somebody's thoughts.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
what the form really needs is someone really gifted at this genre: A Thread for Posting Brutally Pessimistic Quotes by Anguished Philosophers
― ryan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
ryan - def feel you but those ppl would be smug in any format tbrr
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
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ya its kinda cool how they do away with a lot of the "writing" part of writing
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
ps xyzzz² what's yr username
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
i like zany sweeping stoned polo sci grad student twitter essays too. maybe my fav form of twitter essay
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
are there good examples of good twitter essays or is the thing we're admiring more the being on the ground during the gettysburg address sensation, the temporality of just swimming in live content, something like the flickering cursor live-typing of '00s computer thrillers
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
theres something sort of sweet about watching the urban planning accounts talk to each other all day
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
the internet of the internet of things
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i posted one in the Greece/syriza thread that is a classic imo. on my phone so I can't find it now. lots of good economics ones idk. I like herr jest
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
sometimes ill notice who someone i follows irl best friend is and follow them in order to eves drop on their convos is this creepy im not sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
infinite jeet
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
lol i have def done that
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
a fav recent JH one was about globe & mail, gawker, journalistic ethics
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
but rly flopson who is mtl hipster ex-ilx twitterer, I need to follow
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
ty flopsoncan you summarise
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
knock yrselves out folks https://storify.com/JeetHeer1
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
I generally agree re: the above on twitter essays, but the one exception is obv @pushinghoops who is a master of any medium she touches imo
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
wait the really wordy dude was on ilx?
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
commie former ilxor is j4y w4tts III https://twitter.com/jaywattsiii
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
join the @jacobinmag Toronto Reading Group lmao
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
adorno
adorn your life with lols
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
i am probably the worst twitter tbh
Congress, no
― camp event (suzy), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
(what you really want)
― DJP, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
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― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Update: I followed this guy, and then muted him
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
u shd not be able to mute ppl u follow this goes against everything twitter stands for
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
cnn really thirsty these dayshttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBcypj2UkAAVRD8.png:large
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
damn, CNN
― DJP, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Probably the best part about twitter is that when you're feeling sad you can go on and find other people who are also feeling sad but who have thousands or tens of thousands of more followers than you and that makes you feel better because having a lot of twitter followers is supposed to help you feel less sad but for those people it didn't work
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
wish you could turn people down
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
for what
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
i just mean halfway between full follow and mute, like having a volume knob for everyone that corresponds to frequency or something
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
u cld have a thing where for certain ppl u only see their more popular tweets
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that would be a good addition
The other thing twitter needs is to incorporate favstar functionality
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
like facebook does? lol
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
twitter would be good if you could fp ppl from it
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
it would be really good if you could make it disappear
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link