[FRIAM] Threadocide was: The Last Threadbender was: Uncanny Valley was: Biden beats Trump

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Steve,

He who has the last word is a thread-murderer. 

Nick T

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 11:32 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] The Last Threadbender was: Uncanny Valley was: Biden beats Trump


> I think the thread-bending horse left the barn a decade ago.  Even Owen could bend a thread or two in his time.  .  
>
> N

NLT-

If I believed that literally and were (more) obtuse than I am I  might start removing Subject lines entirely. 

I do not believe they are superflous and depend on my own (weak but still operating) associative memory to glean something from thread:author:sequence triples when I try to decide what to (re)read thoroughly or to refer back to after someone makes a previously uninteresting/relevant (to me) thread interesting/relevant.

I don't know when I became an "old dog" but I find myself avoiding/resisting "new tricks" like the ones the Morlocks provide (e.g.
nabble) and Glen points us at from time to time (e.g SMMRY https://smmry.com/).

FWIW I just gandered (you can verbize any noun?) nabble:FriAM and realized the last column provides a "score" or "roster" of who has had the "last word" in a given thread, for better or worse.

- SAS


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