I'm not sure how I got here, honestly.
I got all manic one night and decided to take a long drive.
I ended up in Maryland, which is weird because I honestly thought that I was headed west the entire drive. My starting point was Middle Tennessee. IDK. Then I saw a sign as the sun was coming up that said something about the Potomac River and Virginia is for Lovers and then boom 'WELCOME TO MARYLAND'. It is worth noting here that I would have never noticed these signs had I not been staring out the windshield at what I was convinced at the time was undoubtedly a flying craft of deep space origins. I'm still not convinced it was otherwise.
Anyway, I figured what the heck, I'd went that far in a direction I thought was west and was not, might as well see what Maryland has to offer in early summer / late spring.
Goat farms. Float tanks. Data farms. Government and military stuff. Farms. Street art in some places. And anyway, I don't remember much about Maryland, other than thinking that whoever drew the state lines for that state was obviously drunk. Have you seen Maryland on a map? It makes the least sense of any state. Fact.
So, yeah, HELLO STEEMIT... I heard about you from a goat farmer in Maryland. Funny how these tings happen.
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@dheerajdj One of the interesting features about this platform that I dig is the option to view one's comments both in context and as a single comment void of any contextual information. Back in the day some crazy communication philosopher posed the idea that the medium is the message. Marshall McCluh... something I think was is name. The idea being that the medium in which content appears affects the meaning of the communication event as much as if not more than the content itself. We pick up a newspaper, we turn to the business section, we read about business. Expectations are met. Relevant local and national business news is reported. So it goes. But consider picking up that same message and reading a long fart joke disguised as a business news report. The joke's punchline may be lost in the confusion created in the disconnect between the medium and the message. We expect that particular medium to carry a particular message. And it does. Now consider this idea one step further: the context is the message. We walk into a comedy club, on the bar is a recent copy of the local business section, we pick it up and begin reading it only to find a long fart joke disguised as a business report. We recognize the punchline readily; we are after all in a comedy club.
Point: the interesting thing it seems about @steemit is this little feature. We can contextualize a comment, or we can de-contextualize a comment. And if we choose we can read entire threads without the lurking anxiety that comes from knowing that undoubtedly there are no privacy settings that are hindering our understanding of the communication event. This happens on most other platforms, for me anyway.
point point: steemit seems like an interesting platform to examine particular aspects of both intrapersonal and interpersonal digital communication.
The tell tale will of course be... who is a quick enough, witty enough, unique enough writer/communicator/participator to ensure that they will never be confused for a natural language generating, intuitive, rapid learning bot.
Style, turn of phrase, innuendo, etc... the techies make the bots, the scientists give them a digital existence... however it will be the artists, the writers, and most importantly the poets who will give them personality, style, and ultimately maybe, just maybe, the language of humanity.
cheers.
ps was this written by a bot^? am I communicating with only bots? has the whole world gone mad? is this... wait... is this Terminator 5...The annoyance of the chatbots?
#arebotsbots? #thechatbotstastelikechatbots
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steemer, steemian, steemite, steemican, steemense, steemer... how do these names originate? how should I contact you if I choose not to hesitate? If I do hesitate and then reconsider, should I reconsider not hesitating? interesting human phrase "see you around" around suggest that the internet possess some spatial quality... and wow before I get too digitally philosophical I'll just not hesitate and follow you.
not sure about origins, it looks like steemian is here to stay though. they call the like button an upvote