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Eric Scrivner
@etscrivner
"The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed".
Oct 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
October vibes Image Love that there’s a story called “The Wife” about how great it is to have a wife.

telelib.com/authors/I/Irvi…
Apr 26, 2022 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
Thoughts on Melville’s writing style, technique, and poor interpretations of his works. Melville’s baroque writing style has always been somewhat cryptic. His major influences include Shakespeare, Milton, and The Bible. However, Biblical style looms by far the largest in his works which variously echo its apocalyptic, prophetic, and sermonic styles.
Nov 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The basis of partisan political thought is the ability to self-gaslight. One must be able to vacillate between thinking a situation is apocalyptically grave and offensively trivial or cynical based on the identities of the actors involved... ...The hypocritical split brain produced by this is reinforced by training individuals to have Pavlovian responses to the mere image or mention of friend or enemy within their political cosmology...
May 3, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1/ I thought I'd elaborate on a beef I have with a common architectural prescription called (ironically) "clean code". Namely, how optimizing for the level of flexibility this architecture is supposed to provide makes code unreadable and unwritable. Let's see how... 2/ We'll start with this screenshot. This is from an actual lauded example of "clean code". See: engineering.21buttons.com/clean-architec…

What does this code do? And I mean, actually do? What side-effects does it produce? How does it get initialized and plugged into a web framework? 🤷‍♂️ Image
Apr 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When you think you sound smart but you’re actually espousing the overly evidence based perspective doctors think is dangerous. See the paper below for why this is a silly perspective.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… The key screenshot is the conclusion. Image
Feb 5, 2020 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Hideo Kojima is a stronger contender for best living futurist. Image If you’ve never played Metal Gear Solid 2, I at least recommend watching this cutscene from near the end of the game as some background.

Dec 29, 2017 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Difficult discipline: Not trying to crush differences under the heel of moralizing universalism. Not all things that make you feel bad are bad (ex. Exercise, political factionalism, reading difficult books, even illness which to some degree spurs on health after recovery).