Nick Seaver
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I was just reading Claire Bishop's intro to Disordered Attention, and I really love it, but that's mostly because it does a really good job of surveying a field I'm working in, I think.
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I was just reading Claire Bishop's intro to Disordered Attention, and I really love it, but that's mostly because it does a really good job of surveying a field I'm working in, I think.
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
It sounds very obvious now that I know what it is but I did not recognize it even as a human voice before
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It sounds very obvious now that I know what it is but I did not recognize it even as a human voice before
I really dislike the whole experience, top to bottom, but we have scale problems (also, I could not handle writing 80 of them!!!)
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I really dislike the whole experience, top to bottom, but we have scale problems (also, I could not handle writing 80 of them!!!)
oh man, I think I saw them in... 2004, and it was great
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
oh man, I think I saw them in... 2004, and it was great
is that wider-than-usual cross a thing (it was thiiiiis big)
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
is that wider-than-usual cross a thing (it was thiiiiis big)
lev manovich laser eyes
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
lev manovich laser eyes
I love these games. (And I know this isn’t how the Video Game Mind works, but these labels could be treated the way sociologists treat musical genres, as more about communities of production and consumption than specific formal features, despite being ostensibly organized around formal features.)
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I love these games. (And I know this isn’t how the Video Game Mind works, but these labels could be treated the way sociologists treat musical genres, as more about communities of production and consumption than specific formal features, despite being ostensibly organized around formal features.)
👀 the 👀 politics 👀 of 👀 attention 👀
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
👀 the 👀 politics 👀 of 👀 attention 👀
(That was sarcastic—yes, sure, language is a technology, therefore… elon musk should be allowed to do whatever he wants?)
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
(That was sarcastic—yes, sure, language is a technology, therefore… elon musk should be allowed to do whatever he wants?)
you know it’s gonna be good when the blurb says “Language is a technology, by the way.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
you know it’s gonna be good when the blurb says “Language is a technology, by the way.”