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Shapeshifter, axe fighter, chaos mystic, Netrunner enjoyer, occasional sound maker.


hollygramazio
@hollygramazio
  1. Person you immediately recognise from literally every other site you're on and possibly also from real life. Bio typically reads "well I'm here I guess". They have made 6-12 posts which include a pumpkin soup recipe plus several significantly improved versions of jokes you've already heard them make elsewhere (which is nice, it's like getting to see backstage).

  2. Person you know a little bit through their work. Bio is "makes art". They have made four hundred posts and each one is an incredibly detailed process sketch (probably they're working on a project to get an AI-controlled plotter to draw sheet music based only on visual input of other sheet music; the output will be used as the basis for a live performance in February).

  3. Person who really wants cohost to work out and is doing their bit! Biography, unusually, explains who they are. Usericon may even be their face. They have made lots of thoughtful posts about their life and include regular photos of their pet and/or local sunset. Username is, however, pillowdicks.

  4. Person with a default usericon. Username usually eg smooorf, bio reads "just a little accident". Has made one post, a year ago, which is surely before cohost existed, and it reads "I long for it (the sandwich)" with a link to the internet archive's scanned copy of a 1987 newspaper article in which an abandoned half-sandwich is visible on a picnic table.

  5. Biography is "there is no upper limit on the length of a cohost biography" followed by the first chapter of Moby Dick. Posts are CSS tricks, cartoons of eggbug wearing a hat, and 4000 word essays that kick off thirty-two years have passed since Franklin's lectures were first delivered and yet it remains true that "these technologies have no room for reciprocity"; they are purely annotative, interpretive, obstructive even; there is neither give nor take, there is only direction and redirection. The function of augmented reality in particular is displacement, not augmentation (just as the function of "empathy" is distraction, not revolution). In this context it may be worth bringing to mind the old maxim that "the primary function of machinery is the reshaping of the traditional inherited means of labour into a form adequate to capital"; likewise the function of this mediating, interpretive technology is the reshaping of the traditional, personal modes of being and communicating and knowing a place into an intercessory layer that is fundamentally extractive. This much is obvious: and yet

Obviously these are all great types of people to be followed by. I myself am a type 1 with strong 3 tendencies.


ireneista
@ireneista

tag yourselves, we're 1 with aspirations to 5