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@manton > Economists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible. A dollar is fungible. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude is fungible.

… so is ‘content’ … in the platform’s eyes. They don’t care if it is a Joan Westerberg article or AI slop … they just need people to stick around and read, watch, share it … end of.

It’s all fungible content for there silo … like a grain of wheat in a silo .. who cares if farmer Giles’ has a problem … get new grain from the farmer next door.

@bullfinch yes - although I was more wondering what depth of conversation 50,000 toddlers (what ‘1’ to ‘3’?) were having,

@manton Not tried it .. yet … but looks to be a vast improvement …. My big use case will be particularly in the edit mode … since most of my initial posts start and publish from Drafts

@manton Not tried it .. yet … but looks to be a vast improvement …. My big use case will be particularly in the edit mode … since most of my initial posts start and publish from Drafts

@eurobubba well .. not natively at least … so in some ways a symbolic representation of the people of Texas?

@lex in the modern parlance I believe Bad is Good

@amerpie > I’m probably not smart enough to truly appreciate classical music

Say what now?

If anyone needs to be smart to enjoy any kind of music .. then it is the fault of the music.

Why do we not need to be smart to enjoy jazz? Progressive rock? Drum and bass? Blues? Power pop?

Sometimes you can read writers like Joe Boyd or Ted Gioia and suddenly understand so much more about the music you listen to .. but that is additive .. not table stakes.

We need to leave behind these ideas of ‘high’ art .. concepts with little meaning other than making that community feel better about themselves.

Oh .. and I read your stuff .. you are plenty smart.

@jayeless all aspects of how we know mentally what we want … but to code for it is tough.

@manton Started to reply - got too long - so moved it into a full post

@manton i am running with a live example right now - a published post that I am tweaking. I even add in ‘odd’ words at the beginning so i can quickly tell if the change has kicked in or not.

According to Mars Edit.

Initial Post: 2:31pm

I have made a few edits since then and my last one - again according to Mars Edit - 4:24pm

As I type this reply it is 5:12pm - and the changes haven’t kicked in.