Twitter C/D

um, that is not true

wrong its true

the adam curtis interview is the best thing they've done but upon listening a second time i realized it's 98% adam curtis talking. but props to them for not feeling the need to make their presence felt as more than prompts for curtis.

I would listen to chapo trap house if I knew what a chapo or a trap house was

chapo is a mexican drug lord, a trap house is a house where drugs are sold

xp Menaker was a good interviewer for Curtis because he knows, gets and loves Curtis's work but also seems like not a big ego guy so didn't step on things. I think of him as the sort of responsible adult of Chapo that holds the thing together and moves it along and wants it to be a "real podcast."

he was called the dad of the podcast in that new yorker piece iirc which is otm

saw some screencap of the thing Sam Kriss wrote this week about Game Theory and it was hilariously bad

― flopson, Monday, December 19, 2016 10:24 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)

the kriss article actually managed to be even worse than the awful game theory twitter thing he was attacking.

I'm not a big fan of Kriss from what I've read

I liked Kriss' article

i liked kriss' piece on the failures of the clinton campaign but havent read his thing abt the game theory guy. i like when he makes philosophy posts that show how bad he is at philosophy, i always imagine the face his adviser makes when shes reading his papers

I'm not a big fan of Kriss from what I've read

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:05 (yesterday) Permalink

I liked Kriss' article

― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:13 (yesterday) Permalink

the part quoted in this tweet is all of the article or (to my knowledge) Sam Kriss

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/810199810057838593

ehm,

the part quoted in this tweet is all of the article or (to my knowledge) Sam Kriss THAT I HAVE READ

lots of unutterably dumb nonsense in that paragraph, who is Sam Kriss again? What is all this discourse

TMD

(Too Much Discourse)

;-)

ppl going wild for the discourse

haha jeet heer doing a tweet storm on the newfound controversiality of tweet storms, never change bud

(he's right tho obv)

hes right if you think a self own and being right are the same thing

i think my full explanation of why he's right would not be popular on this board so i'm just gonna keep it to myself, but suffice it to say attacking form rather than substance is pretty lazy and unserious

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet 43m43 minutes ago
1. So, twitter essays.

I thought he was going to stop after this first tweet and it would be quite a funny joke, but maybe him continuing to do an actual twitter storm is in fact a funnier joke

read yr blogs

attacking the form is good, do not legitimize the form, which is annoying

hes right if you think a self own and being right are the same thing

― lag∞n, Monday, December 19, 2016 8:46 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listen for some people this is their entire brand

why wld we want to be serious about tweetstorms, we arent aspiring to be weird buffoons

if ur a successful tweetstormer this is a perfect opportunity to not feed the trolls and just carry on with yr life of tweestorming, its basic game theory

tweetstorms dont really even bother me like theyre for sure pretty lame but defending tweetstorms is just such obvs bad manners idk

u cn defend them on here its okay but not on twitter dont clutter up the feed

tweetstorms can be fine even if they are often terrible just don't go announcing you are going to start one like "OK, ready everyone? Tweetstorm on x, starting now! Here goes!!!"

also the word "tweetstorm" is bad

its funny the numbering doesnt actually serve the typical purpose of numbering things its purely to signal to ppl that a tweetstorm is going down

if i were jeet heer id be all

1. a few thoughts on tweetstorms
2. i got a nice job off tweetstorms
3. gargle deez

time for some storm theory

tweet meteorology

I think crazy ranting game theory guy is bad but did the twitter format right. If you're tweeting that many times in a row, it should sound like a one person conversation where you're responding to the voices in your head

lol jeet fighting w ronan now he mad

tucker carlson featured a tweet from my buddy regarding lena dunham on fox today lol

soon the royalties will start pouring in!

Ronan <3

jeet's a lot smarter than ronan, to state the obvious

yeah but is it the right kind of intelligence, he _did_ respond at ronan's weak jibe

k3vin k.
Posted: December 20, 2016 at 6:11:31 PM
jeet's a lot smarter than ronan, to state the obvious

odd non sequitur

where do you imagine people are when they are tweeting these storms

ronans point was very good not weak and jeets intelligence didnt seem to really help him understand it much, prob the kind of intelligence thats better suited to musings than human interactions

idk man i find the pile-on tiring. jeet may be a lot of things (humorless, lacking in self-awareness), but at the very least he's curious about the world around him and can think for himself. give me that over a white guy who uses "manthreading" unironically

the man threading article was written by a woman fwiw

if it's a bunch of people doing this it's lame, but if it truly is a bunch of people then why the hell is he wasting time responding to individuals

manthreading has to do with your eyebrows

I think they go to the last remaining bookstore in their city to browse and maybe buy a book, and then they take out their phone and then an hour or two later another shopper says "excuse me" because they are standing in front of some good books, and the twitter person is like "shit" and moves, and then realizes they are late for a thing and they have had nothing to eat since 9am

imo twitter is an excellent platform for roasting ppl jeets doing fine he cn deal

i think "manthreading" was funny and tongue in cheek, knowing that the people who are guilty of it would either get the simile or blow up because they're humorless

it's not like men talking over people, but it often has the same run-on nature and linking the two is funny, although that appeal is limited to people who read a zillion "mansplaining" articles

basically, gawker in-media-sphere humor