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Art is Art and Water is Water
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Art is Art and Water is Water is a personal blog at foone.wordpress.com about culture and writing. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Normalization of Deviance”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Foone's WordPress blog, which holds long-form versions of posts first published as Twitter threads. The topics include retro game cartridges, reverse engineering, and human vision.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-05-11
- Normalization of Deviance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-22
What Hacker News says?
If you prefer blog format, Foone used to put their Twitter threads on their blog here: https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/the-eyes-have-it/
Comment linking /2019/03/01/the-eyes-have-it/
on “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)”Submitted Normalization of Deviance as a story · 165 points
HN discussionHe has a blog: https://foone.wordpress.com/ He uses twitter for shorter, quick posts. A "micro" blog, if you will.
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on “Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made”Submitted Normalisation of [engineering] deviance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHeh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?" CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT. The short story is they are qu…
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on “Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made”A little bit meta here, but I know it's going to come up: somebody is going to complain that Twitter is the wrong way to write this content. How they loved it but were infuriated to read it in snippets. Pre-emptively, I'm copy-pasting an earlier comment of mine on this: > Heh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html > Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of get…
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on “SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips”I think literally can't is a little bit strong here, as Foone does also have a blog: https://foone.wordpress.com/ That being said, if using twitter is easier for them and it's a choice of either publishing this stuff on Twitter or not at all, then I'm glad they use Twitter. Edit : I just noticed that the blog posts were originally published as twitter threads, so maybe my point doesn't stand.
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on “Reverse engineering Skifree”> To me it seems disrespectful to publish someone's book under a different name from the one they chose to publish it under. It's an interesting situation because it's obviously meant to honour the authors but in doing so it's speaking for them. It relies on the idea that these authors were women who took pseudonyms because of the society they were in rather than fully by choice. The description of George Sand stood…
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on “‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names”It seems I learn something new every day about our visual system. Thanks for sharing. Last week, it was a link to Technology Connections' video on the colour brown[0]. I also really enjoyed reading Foone's older blog post, "The EYES Have It"[1]. [0] https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU [1] https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/the-eyes-have-it/
Comment linking /2019/03/01/the-eyes-have-it/
on “Purkinje Effect”