and this works with all sorts of fields. I've had success with it over linguistics and physics, to say nothing of metaconversation about creative writing (discussion about topics in the background supporting your own work wholly separate from using their output *as a misrepresented final product*)
October 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
and this works with all sorts of fields. I've had success with it over linguistics and physics, to say nothing of metaconversation about creative writing (discussion about topics in the background supporting your own work wholly separate from using their output *as a misrepresented final product*)
This is the massive frustration I have with people these days: they simply refuse to recognize the metaconversation.
You can point out the people pushing the story are manipulative and have really clear public agendas, and the response is "yeah but here's what I think about the story."
No. Bad.
You can point out the people pushing the story are manipulative and have really clear public agendas, and the response is "yeah but here's what I think about the story."
No. Bad.
The Last Ditch lesbian bar mask requirement story was the topic of Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog's terf ass podcast on September 17th last week.
Seems likely this is where the Globe is getting the content for the "viral story". Nice work everyone, great media literacy skills.
Seems likely this is where the Globe is getting the content for the "viral story". Nice work everyone, great media literacy skills.
September 24, 2026 at 7:57 PM
This is the massive frustration I have with people these days: they simply refuse to recognize the metaconversation.
You can point out the people pushing the story are manipulative and have really clear public agendas, and the response is "yeah but here's what I think about the story."
No. Bad.
You can point out the people pushing the story are manipulative and have really clear public agendas, and the response is "yeah but here's what I think about the story."
No. Bad.
It is so irritating how it's impossible for people to understand a metaconversation, to wit: knowing when you've been manipulated into focusing on a thing while ignoring the mechanisms that manipulated you even when they're made obvious.
When it happens, focus on the messenger, not the message.
When it happens, focus on the messenger, not the message.
September 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
It is so irritating how it's impossible for people to understand a metaconversation, to wit: knowing when you've been manipulated into focusing on a thing while ignoring the mechanisms that manipulated you even when they're made obvious.
When it happens, focus on the messenger, not the message.
When it happens, focus on the messenger, not the message.
Yeah, it's been a quiet week. The first lesson happened, though. A metaconversation about conversation and why humans do it.
Good luck with the work and dance class. I hope the latter isn't too painful.
Masks! Sounds like a commedia dell'arte type thing. 😊
Good luck with the work and dance class. I hope the latter isn't too painful.
Masks! Sounds like a commedia dell'arte type thing. 😊
January 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Yeah, it's been a quiet week. The first lesson happened, though. A metaconversation about conversation and why humans do it.
Good luck with the work and dance class. I hope the latter isn't too painful.
Masks! Sounds like a commedia dell'arte type thing. 😊
Good luck with the work and dance class. I hope the latter isn't too painful.
Masks! Sounds like a commedia dell'arte type thing. 😊
My tentative design is to put every convo in the game into one giant metaconversation, whose top-level response options are the worlds of the game, the next tier down the tree would be the levels of each world, then the characters on each level. A vertical slice of the whole game.
October 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
My tentative design is to put every convo in the game into one giant metaconversation, whose top-level response options are the worlds of the game, the next tier down the tree would be the levels of each world, then the characters on each level. A vertical slice of the whole game.
Fuck everyone who tried to soften the blow of what Israel has been doing with endless metaconversation and bothsidesism. People who drive children to suicide, including war criminals, are a special kind of evil.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-families-are-trying-save-their-children-suicide
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-families-are-trying-save-their-children-suicide
April 10, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Fuck everyone who tried to soften the blow of what Israel has been doing with endless metaconversation and bothsidesism. People who drive children to suicide, including war criminals, are a special kind of evil.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-families-are-trying-save-their-children-suicide
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-families-are-trying-save-their-children-suicide
You can be a snarky pedantic dogmatic midwit and continue with metaconversation since you lack any substantive position, or you can read a modicum of philosophy. Your choice. www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
Book I of Hegel's Science of Logic - Being
www.marxists.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
You can be a snarky pedantic dogmatic midwit and continue with metaconversation since you lack any substantive position, or you can read a modicum of philosophy. Your choice. www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
i'm not really interested in nightreign, but i do think it's funny as an entry in the metaconversation of from software desperately trying to convince its audience that the multiplayer bits are in these games on purpose
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
i'm not really interested in nightreign, but i do think it's funny as an entry in the metaconversation of from software desperately trying to convince its audience that the multiplayer bits are in these games on purpose
I get the concept, I do. But I don't really buy the metaconversation about identity around aging and "lookism" when the movie spends so much time on qualleys ass and the implied disgust around aging
February 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I get the concept, I do. But I don't really buy the metaconversation about identity around aging and "lookism" when the movie spends so much time on qualleys ass and the implied disgust around aging
There is no reason that the “metaconversation” and “community” have to happen over the same protocol/app. Your metaconversation and community are on Discord, not the podcast app. There is additional friction, but many consider the tradeoff worth it.
April 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There is no reason that the “metaconversation” and “community” have to happen over the same protocol/app. Your metaconversation and community are on Discord, not the podcast app. There is additional friction, but many consider the tradeoff worth it.
This moment is a clear example of the way social media has made virtually all conversation about politics into metaconversation.
September 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This moment is a clear example of the way social media has made virtually all conversation about politics into metaconversation.
I know everybody but Boston fans abhors Boston teams, but it sure would be nice to occasionally get a Defector piece that actually engages more with the fact that the Celtics are a team that plays basketball and is good at it than the sports media metaconversation around them!
Anoint yourself, dammit! defector.com/anoint-yours...
Anoint Yourself, Dammit! | Defector
Let it not be said that the Boston Celtics are bad at basketball. They are, in fact, pretty good! Thursday night they whipped the daylights out of the Indiana Pacers, in Game 2 of the Eastern Conferen...
defector.com
May 24, 2024 at 6:11 PM
I know everybody but Boston fans abhors Boston teams, but it sure would be nice to occasionally get a Defector piece that actually engages more with the fact that the Celtics are a team that plays basketball and is good at it than the sports media metaconversation around them!
True in general, not merely to the AI metaconversation that's the subject of the thread.
The thing about people who insist upon “nuance” is that they don’t actually mean “nuance” they just mean “someone who disagrees with me isn’t saying things that I agree with.”
March 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
True in general, not merely to the AI metaconversation that's the subject of the thread.
There's no telling what the future holds, but as it stands right now Hellthread seems to be both an ever-present, ever-evolving metaconversation, and simultaneously a nightly instance of an overarching theme. This is the most focused I've seen it, tho granted I haven't been here long.
Since there are some detached branches of the hellthread, I've reworked a bit of the Thread Builder code so that it will try to reconstruct from the post you provide up as far as it can go instead of building from the root down. This should let you find your hellbranch. https://bsky.jazco.dev/thread
May 8, 2023 at 6:02 AM
There's no telling what the future holds, but as it stands right now Hellthread seems to be both an ever-present, ever-evolving metaconversation, and simultaneously a nightly instance of an overarching theme. This is the most focused I've seen it, tho granted I haven't been here long.
alright I was putting my daughter to bed and the whole timeline has already moved onto the metaconversation, which is mildly annoying, can someone fill me in with what we know
April 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
alright I was putting my daughter to bed and the whole timeline has already moved onto the metaconversation, which is mildly annoying, can someone fill me in with what we know
"Oh, Handler NTR?"
No, turns out I wanted to write a metaconversation. And disguise it as Handler NTR.
No, turns out I wanted to write a metaconversation. And disguise it as Handler NTR.
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"Oh, Handler NTR?"
No, turns out I wanted to write a metaconversation. And disguise it as Handler NTR.
No, turns out I wanted to write a metaconversation. And disguise it as Handler NTR.
and they gave it up just like that. though having written it all out, AI sure did take their place when you consider the heat of the metaconversation
May 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
and they gave it up just like that. though having written it all out, AI sure did take their place when you consider the heat of the metaconversation
why are 'forcing functions' in the YouTube urbanist metaconversation suddenly?
May 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
why are 'forcing functions' in the YouTube urbanist metaconversation suddenly?
anyway it makes me wonder if having it be juxtaposed with racism actually made it more palatable to the military-political metaconversation at the time that otherwise wouldn't have been able to reach as far as it did. the 90s is a really hard time to place
May 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM
anyway it makes me wonder if having it be juxtaposed with racism actually made it more palatable to the military-political metaconversation at the time that otherwise wouldn't have been able to reach as far as it did. the 90s is a really hard time to place
I fully know you are not one of the people who are in on this but the metaconversation is just how cool it is to brigade her for any reason whatsoever and that fucking sucks. it's stancilism all over again
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I fully know you are not one of the people who are in on this but the metaconversation is just how cool it is to brigade her for any reason whatsoever and that fucking sucks. it's stancilism all over again
I'm interested mainly in the metaconversation about WHY those conversations are deranged, because Billy Pencils is NOT unique. This is the same dynamic as Kiwifarms.
April 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm interested mainly in the metaconversation about WHY those conversations are deranged, because Billy Pencils is NOT unique. This is the same dynamic as Kiwifarms.
you need to please slow down and read upthread because no one in it is caping for ngo. “fuck that guy” is what she said like three posts ago. there is a metaconversation upthread about whether Molloy was unique in falling for Ngo in 2019 and it has gotten “skimming” type readers a bit confused
July 29, 2023 at 6:13 PM
you need to please slow down and read upthread because no one in it is caping for ngo. “fuck that guy” is what she said like three posts ago. there is a metaconversation upthread about whether Molloy was unique in falling for Ngo in 2019 and it has gotten “skimming” type readers a bit confused
The metaconversation here is a distraction.
November 16, 2024 at 7:46 PM
The metaconversation here is a distraction.
but how else are you going to get a jump on the crowd size metaconversation
January 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
but how else are you going to get a jump on the crowd size metaconversation
He could simply refrain from engaging in the metaconversation about himself
July 29, 2026 at 8:27 PM
He could simply refrain from engaging in the metaconversation about himself