#nuance
Making / Keeping Moloka'i - Prequel: Tribute to Buzzy Sproat
Something new from my world of.... why not?
From a #conversation about the expression "bull in a China Shop", common expression in the U.S.
In Europe there is a similar idiom - great name for a band - an "elephant in a porcelain shop".
Quite an interesting difference, as captured in the cartoon versions. #Nuance More below. Going down...
I intended on talking about #talking , #storytalk, #communication #TalkingStory, #discussing #travel #hereandnow
"Flight Plan"
Here was someone I was truly privileged to have known - and video'd! Shared pretzels and fruit @ #COH. :(
A legendary Hawaiian paniolo who heroically brought comfort to the 'leper colony'-> patients on the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula on Moloka'i. #BuzzySproat #legend #paniolo #muleskinner #hawaii #molokai #RIP
Oh, and he could talk story! Starting with his life.
RIP. Aloha to the aunties & uncles & nieces and nephews.
Sorry about the audio - it won't get louder than the laughter of people or grass-hunting of the mules. Buzzy was funny! 🎧 Earphones &/or full speakers will help to "be there".
This is #Buzzy telling us how we need the mules to choose us and the how to ride down a sheer sea cliff. Not to worry, the mules were fed but they're going to go for the grass. Get to know your mule. By name. Hold on. Trust your mule. Be respectful. Okay! Let's go!
I made a video on Moloka'i with local music and my photos and vids. Info on that is also in the YouTube description.
But here [is the legendary cowboy/muleskinner guide on the #Kalaupapa trails down the sea cliff down to the colony which he personally helped for many years with his mule-back runs down a 26 switchback trail of sheer sea cliff. [ Photography ]
Meanwhile, yes, idioms. Like people, 'diverse'.
People everywhere have some metaphor in non-human nature to explain fellow humans trapped &/or out of control.
The American version of the cartoon is 'children only' (true! on Fox Family TV) - what we all are brought up seeing in cartoons and using as a metaphor for... the raging bull, so oddly finding itself itself thrashing about China. heh #reality
The French version portrays a more civilized #society with an endearing elephant. Agile really: But amid porcelain, maintenant...
Comme un Elephant dans un magasin de Porcelaine
I suppose metaphors, like cultures an fables, idioms and buzz phrases, run deep in the human DNA. Happy Weekend.
Kolmogorov Twitter
Twitter is what happens when interactions, low-latency, amplification, and images (memes are pretty much precisely cartoons of complex ideas) are cheap, while nuance, deliberation, and complexity are expensive. It drives all the intelligence from the discussion, absent very deliberate effort.
It's also all plaza and no warrens.
Warrens are small spaces for private and intimate discussion. Plazas are large open spaces. The interplay is a key social dynamic, online or offline. Those of a certain age may recall "riot-proof architecture" in public spaces and some college campuses, most notable for structures or spaces in which through-travel is impossible --- to get from one side of a building or area to another, you must exit and re-enter from outside. I've been re-reading Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), and one point he makes is that AOL's architecture (at least at the time) permitted "chat rooms", but those were capped to a maximum of 23 participants. It's sort of another spin on Twitter's 120 (now 240) characters: an arbitrarily imposed constraint that limits the dynamics of conversation. In AOL you could use as many words as you wanted, but you could only address 22 other people at a time. (Unless you were a publisher or advertiser, of course, in which case the communication was a one-way broadcast.) Twitter limits words but not people.
And complex ideass require nuance. Kolmogorov complexity is an idea I keep returning to again and again. Another is that the sense of how behaviours change as costs of inputs or factors change relative to each other, as here with text, images, latency, amplification, attention, consideration, complexity, is at the heart of much of economics. (The far more interesting part than much of the memetic ideology-slinging that dominates public discourse, but then, that's another Kolmogorov problem, isn't it?)
Twitter's principle function is to reference some larger element. That might be advertising. It might be a linked article or text (which addresses a concept in more depth). Or it might be the emotional pathways of cutenesss, fear, anger, outrage, suspicion, humour, and the like.
But no, it's not an in-detail, small-space discussion network.
Vlog Brothers discussion of Twitter: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=5YYLMrZ3y_o
(Note: Because YouTube are now making autoplay all the harder to disable, I'm swapping in Invidious links.)
Expanded from comments to a private share. And speeling corrected from an earlier post, so shoot me.
#Twitter #Nuance #KolmogorovComplexity #VlogBrothers #WarrensAndPlazas #CodeAndOtherLaws #LawrenceLessig #Alamogordo
Kolmogrov Twitter
Twitter is what happens when interactions, low-latency, amplification, and images (memes are pretty much precisely cartoons of complex ideas) are cheap, while nuance, deliberation, and complexity are expensive. It drives all the intelligence from the discussion, absent very deliberate effort.
It's also all plaza and no warrens.
Warrens are small spaces for private and intimate discussion. Plazas are large open spaces. The interplay is a key social dynamic, online or offline. Those of a certain age may recall "riot-proof architecture" in public spaces and some college campuses, most notable for structures or spaces in which through-travel is impossible --- to get from one side of a building or area to another, you must exit and re-enter from outside. I've been re-reading Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), and one point he makes is that AOL's architecture (at least at the time) permitted "chat rooms", but those were capped to a maximum of 23 participants. It's sort of another spin on Twitter's 120 (now 240) characters: an arbitrarily imposed constraint that limits the dynamics of conversation. In AOL you could use as many words as you wanted, but you could only address 22 other people at a time. (Unless you were a publisher or advertiser, of course, in which case the communication was a one-way broadcast.) Twitter limits words but not people.
And complex ideass require nuance. Kolmogrov complexity is an idea I keep returning to again and again. Another is that the sense of how behaviours change as costs of inputs or factors change relative to each other, as here with text, images, latency, amplification, attention, consideration, complexity, is at the heart of much of economics. (The far more interesting part than much of the memetic ideology-slinging that dominates public discourse, but then, that's another Kolmogrov problem, isn't it?)
Twitter's principle function is to reference some larger element. That might be advertising. It might be a linked article or text (which addresses a concept in more depth). Or it might be the emotional pathways of cutenesss, fear, anger, outrage, suspicion, humour, and the like.
But no, it's not an in-detail, small-space discussion network.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=5YYLMrZ3y_o
(Note: Because YouTube are now making autoplay all the harder to disable, I'm swapping in Invidious links.)
Expanded from comments to a private share.
#Twitter #Nuance #KolmogrovComplexity #VlogBrothers #WarrensAndPlazas #CodeAndOtherLaws #LawrenceLessig