Notices by Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social), page 9

@wordsquares I'm afraid I have some bad news about your fiancé. I know you thought his packaging-related vascular system was intact, but I heard from a friend that

@sifr beneath the paving stones, the bits

@wrenpile probably easier for google to simply change its search algorithm to bury any mention of the definite article and its uses in english.

—shouldn't there be a 'the' there?
—nah I just googled it and google says no
—you're right. when you think about it, none of us need 'the'. let's simply never systematically indicate via lexical and syntactic means which things have been previously mentioned or are otherwise salient
—agreed. let's celebrate this at my favorite bar in lower east side

whoops I meant to say "weird and perfect example" though I guess it is also our weird and perfect reality. (taking "perfect" in not in its meaning of "nice" but in its more sinister meaning of "somehow considered to be complete even though nothing can ever truly be complete")

my favorite Google Places ad is in the West 4th St station here in NYC, a big poster that reads "You don't know {West Village} yet" where "West Village" is in a different color from the rest of the text. no one would actually say this (you'd always say "_the_ West Village"). you can almost hear the computer-voice template replacement in your head.

You don't know
ＷＥＳＴ．
ＶＩＬＬＡＧＥ．
yet.

weird and perfect reality of google trying to overwrite the territory with its map

seeing ads for this "Google Places" or whatever all over the place and i'm just like, oh good, america's creepiest monopsony has found yet another way to exploit its ghoulish panopticonesque data hoard to run a protection racket

@brainwane yeah this is for my daily tasks (laptop plus usually a handful of books and a portable videogame console and lunch). timbuktu is great but doesn't really scratch my aesthetic itch in this case 😕 (ideally i'm looking for something that can add a kind of polished femme note to my lazy daily outfits, if that makes sense)

if i were to write this paper i would call it "how to mean things with hyperlinks"

a lot of emphasis in the literature about the raw topology of hypertexts and their surface-level textual features, need to find writing on a possible taxonomy of how lexia bind to the semantics of narrative structure (sorta like how theta roles and verb frames in linguistics bind the semantics of the sentence to the syntax) (this is especially important in contemporary twine games where i feel like links/edges conflate movement through space, branching plots, asides and elaborations, etc)

there is no more paradigmatic example of "ergodic literature" than the Magic 8-Ball, fight me and/or cite me

markov chain text generator trained on a few hundred thousand lines of poetry from project gutenberg—I decided this output worked best as short haiku-like poems

(people will try to make sense of anything as long as it looks vaguely like a haiku)

finding random rhyming couplets in project gutenberg poetry books

@johnholdun pretty fast tbh—I pretty much instantly unfollow anyone who posts un-cwed politics stuff

@charlyblack #TootYourFavoriteOssuary

@charlyblack reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary

never forget that limestone is "composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs" so when you're making things with limestone you're making things with the bones of your dead ancient distant relatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone

@xor unfortunately one major political party in the 21st century only read the top half of the poster and was all like "that sounds AMAZING, up yours global warming"