Nick Seaver
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
- oh hello, Dan Deacon playing in Cambridge on super bowl sunday, is it 40-year-old nerd christmas
- one of the big issues with Claude Code is that telling a computer what to do in natural language is embarrassing
- ohhh I’m telling the computer instructions
- I asked my daughter what she thought of GODZILLA MINUS ONE and she said, “two words: plot armor.” Raising a hater.
- they call me the ahab of corduroy, the way I’m searching for that wide wale
- imagine thinking this is bad, did he watch An American Tail as a child and get really mad or something
- very fun: 1. Systems and Their Theory 2. Anthropology of Sound 3. Art and Ideology 4. The Medieval Book 5. White Masculinity and Sexuality in US Popular Culture
- nice concretizing of the core idea in the history of information overload: overload isn’t a matter of quantity alone, it requires a certain kind of subject to feel overwhelmed. (the early modern scholar who wants to have read every book in the library, the RSS reader who wants inbox zero)
- and sure, people learn ways to be from how media technologies are structured, but not *only* from how media technologies are structured
- every day of my traps class this semester I think of that tweet that was like "to catch the bus, you have to think like a bus"
- because it's true
- what... is in it?
- one of the best things about THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966) is how everyone calls the monsters “Frankensteins”
- (they descend from the original Frankenstein’s monster, sort of)
