<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Adrian, I am pretty sure that if you asked an English prof today what poetry is, he would shake his head and say that it's whatever the author wants to call it. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 11:01 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The word "poetry",<br>used abundantly,<br>may oft be applied<br>where rhyme is denied,<br>deliberately.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 7:35 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You mean there's modern poetry with rhyme and rhythm? I quit taking the New Yorker and ATlantic Monthly partly because of the horrible poetry they publish - no rhymes, no meter, obscure in the meaning department. Of course you have 'lower level' stuff, like Breathe that I circulated, that the magazines would never print - literary profs would burn the issue in public as a protest against sensible poetry. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 8:51 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding Musk’s notion of making the Twitter content filters public led to the observation that this could make it easier to game the system.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That rattled around in my brain like a golf ball in a 55 gallon drum. I came up with an idea (as is my wont (or one of my many wonts (such as wanting excuses to use the term wont (they call me the wont-monster.))))<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">An earlier observation was the comedy gold provided by the Babylon Bee, which made a skit of an overly sensitive Twitter employee freaking about Musk buying Twitter. Then Twitter played along with the gag by slapping a sensitive content label on a tweet about sensitive Twitter employees (referring to her (and comically self-referencing the Twitter employee who chose the label.)) But it isn’t entirely clear the label was Twitter playing along with the gag. It might be that software did that, and that their software is flawed. I chose the more charitable interpretation (Twitter was making fun of itself.)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="583" height="331" style="width: 6.0729in; height: 3.4479in;" id="gmail-m_3523343179732868717gmail-m_-8771999411566784776gmail-m_-698609545199830052Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1807ae1295f6917eb1"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding Musk’s notion of making that software public (not defeating it, just making it public domain): that would allow users to download the filter, run a test case on an edgy post, shape it, edit it, rework it until it gets by without a warning. So this would be a form of gaming the system, and could spawn an entirely new genre in a sense: how to creatively word a message in such a way as to communicate an idea around restrictions. Gaming Twitter then becomes analogous to poetry in a way, where you say things with a rhyme and a rhythm, to communicate ideas in a framework of sorts. Going around Twitter filters becomes modern poetry.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike <u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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