Matt Arnold @matt@penguicon.social
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Audiobook podcaster. #Boardgames designer of "Overworld". #Web dev. Helps run #Penguicon #sciencefiction & #opensource #convention, & i3Detroit #hackerspace. #polyamory #fedi22
Joined May 2019
In the fourth part of this episode: "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution"
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
In the third part of this episode: "Subsocieties: urban tribes"
Subsocieties, close-knit social groups organized around subsocieties: a possible model for positive future social oganization.
In the second part of this episode: "Subcultures: meanings at play"
With no responsibility to justify universal norms, or for solving social problems, subcultures were freed to play with meanings.
In the first part of this episode:
"Subcultures: the diversity of meaning"
The subcultural era (1975-2000) recognized the diversity of meanings, and provided a new type of supportive, voluntary social group.
https://meaningness.com/subcultures
On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Subcultures"
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On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Completing The Countercultures"
At root, the culture war is not about abortion, gay marriage, or marijuana. It is about shared misunderstandings of the nature of meaning.
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Today was super shitty, but in the middle of it I played this lovely, creepy little point-and-click game called "If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers". Small indie-team effort that really shines in soundscaping and story-knots; it sucked me right in and everything else faded.
Art MATTERS. It's always worth doing, yes bc Vonnegut's Rule, but also because sometimes someone's having too crappy a time even to make their own, and yours might be the thing that grants them priceless slack. <3
Another link mentioned in this episode is "The Toxoplasma of Rage", also by Scott Alexander.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
One of the links mentioned in this episode is "Five Case Studies In Politicization", by Scott Alexander.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/16/five-case-studies-on-politicization/
On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Wreckage - The Culture War"
The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.
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When I Made Another Monkey Island
Link: https://grumpygamer.com/when_i_made_another_monkeyisland
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31246530
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“Algospeak” is a new English dialect that emerged from the desperate attempts of social media users to “please the algorithm”: that is, to avoid words and phrases that cause social media platforms’ algorithms to suppress or block their communication.
#Algospeak is practiced by all types of social media users, from individuals addressing their friends to science communicators and activists hoping to reach a broader public. But the most ardent practitioners of algospeak are social media creators, who rely—directly or indirectly—on social media to earn a living.
the article ⬆️ posted by @pluralistic also links to this explainer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospeak-tiktok-le-dollar-bean/
I have been mulling over "We Need To Sing About Mental Health" for more than a year now.
Excerpt:
"It’s likely that a few people endorse stigma, many don’t, and most people are in-between, not actively anti-stigma but not consciously discriminatory.
Isn’t that true about…everything? If there is such an outgroup, where is the in-group? Where is DepressionCon? Where are the Social Anxiety Pride parades?
Answer: that’s why we invented the internet."
https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/116790700524/we-need-to-sing-about-mental-health
In the second part of this episode: "Why Both Countercultures Failed" - Failure to find new foundations for meaning, to recognize diversity, to provide community, and to transcend opposition: all doomed counterculturalism.
https://meaningness.com/countercultures-fail
This episode mentions an atomized masterpiece by DJ Lobsterdust, "Queen Vs Satan, featuring pastor Gary G., in: It's Fun To Smoke Dust".
https://youtu.be/pdXek5d2ocw
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Audiobook podcaster. #Boardgames designer of "Overworld". #Web dev. Helps run #Penguicon #sciencefiction & #opensource #convention, & i3Detroit #hackerspace. #polyamory #fedi22
Joined May 2019
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