{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Looking back on it, I think the thing that most made me despair of the adjacency with wordcel/shape-rotator bullshit last year...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/716782384293593088/", "html": "
Looking back on it, I think the thing that most made me despair of the adjacency with wordcel/shape-rotator bullshit last year was that it didn\u2019t seem to move the needle on anyone\u2019s opinion of anyone. You had all these people being like \u201cwell I don\u2019t think it\u2019s true that people with degrees in the humanities or social sciences have a lower class of brain and implicitly don\u2019t merit a place in real Smart People Spaces because a Jungian quack who has arbitrarily declared himself the voice of science and logic said so, but this seems like a reasonable position that could be a real gem with a bit of amendment, and I certainly would never dream of respecting a person\u2019s belief system less because that was a part of it.\u201d Fuck off.
One of the things that drew me to the adjacency in the first place was that while it was mostly made up of STEM people, they had a genuine curiosity about a lot of topics outside of that collection of fields and didn\u2019t usually fall victim to the sort of petty departmental turf wars that seem to be the bread and butter of every nerdy undergrad. It\u2019s a shame that this seems to have waned over the years.
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\u2018wordcell and shape rotator discourse\u2019 seemed so obviously stupid on its face it took me like a week to realize it wasn\u2019t some new elaborate bit everyone was doing.
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u mean it wasn\u2019t
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Felt like more of a TPOT thing? But there\u2019s an infinite appetite everywhere for pseudo objective schemes that let you split people into \u201ccool smart people like me\u201d and other
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this?
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TPOT is the designation for what was once called \u201cpost-rationalist Twitter\u201d but has expanded in scope such that it probably needed a new name. The boundaries are (deliberately) quite fuzzy, but if you imagine a collection of people who are kinda rat-adj but also very into \u201cvibes\u201d and indistinct spiritualism, and also quite chummy with both blueglobe Twitter and rightoid trad Twitter, you\u2019ve basically got the gist of it.
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