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lumps @lumpenspace

uh and while I'm here apart from Kristeva: - transactional analysis ("games ppl play" is a useful intro) - Keith Johnston on improv - Peter Carroll on Sigils - Peirce - the way Roland Barthes talks about text for instance in S/Z - pragmatics ... all offer lenses on this thing 7:11 AM · May 7, 2025 · 354 Views [reply/retweet/like/bookmark/share icons: 1, 1, 4, 1] lumpenspace @lumpenspace · 2h related > QUOTED: lumpenspace @lumpenspace · Jan 3 > Replying to @lumpenspace > relatedly, I had long suspected Shannon to be wrong, and English to be only redundant for the lowest common denominator; "pidginisation", rather... [text cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A reading-list style tweet from @lumpenspace listing intellectual lenses (transactional analysis, improv theory, chaos magic sigils, semiotics, pragmatics) for understanding an unspecified "this thing" — likely language/meaning-making, tied to a linked older tweet about Shannon information theory and pidginization. General intellectual-culture reading, no direct AI safety content.

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tkasasagi @tkasasagi

tkasasagi @tkasasagi "When I first saw this, I thought it's alien language for a sec, but it's Japanese in 17th century called Jindaimoji en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindai_mo..." [Photo: a page from a Japanese reference book, numbered 573, showing a chart of "神代字三十六人首" (Jindaimoji — "age of the gods" script) characters that resemble a runic/alien-looking script, credited to 小野寺成美編, 江戸後期刊 (Edo late-period publication)]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet from a scholar of historical Japanese texts sharing an image of Jindaimoji, a pseudo-ancient script claimed to predate kanji, whose characters visually resemble runes. Casual browsing/interest capture.

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