Sort by: approximate quantity of shame expressed

September 6, 2019 12:56 PM

Other orders allows you to sort your twitter feed, or other texts, by various categories that may be different from Twitter's usual algorithms.

Disclosure: I consider myself a friend of the artist who made this. But, I had nothing to do with it. (previous posts involving their work.)

posted by eotvos (10 comments total)

If I was on Twitter, the only sort I'd want is one that pushed the funniest stuff to the top...then discarded all the rest.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:07 PM on September 6, 2019

when sorting by "Eroticism as an Approximation of Similarity to a Sentence by Anaïs Nin",

the top tweet in my feed is from the Monterey Bay Aquarium: "These sightings of Mola tecta are tantalizing for sunfish researchers: Are hoodwinkers new arrivals to the area, carried by Chile’s cool Humboldt current and somehow punching their way through the equator and into our temperate waters due to some climatic abnormality?"
posted by jb at 1:11 PM on September 6, 2019 [11 favorites]

Oh god this is amazing.
posted by nikaspark at 2:52 PM on September 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

"Eroticism as an Approximation of Similarity to a Sentence by Anaïs Nin"

I am dying lol.
posted by nikaspark at 2:54 PM on September 6, 2019

Some of these are hilarious, and some of these are also actually really useful. I can definitely foresee doing some pruning of my timeline based on "Total Hashtags" and "Use of Language Similar to Language Used By Corporate Social Media Accounts Such As Amazon".

A lot of my categories ended up being topped by tweets from this thread by Anna Maltese (Apocalyptic, Quantity of Shame, AND Eroticism as an Approximation of Similarity to a Sentence by Anais Nin...really, for just five tweets it's got it all) and perhaps unsurprisingly, various kinds of nonsense from gwenpool_ebooks. (Although, "Similarity to Values Expressed in TED Talks" wasn't one I expected there...she lost the @dril category to somebody who was actually retweeting @dril though, which I guess proves it really works!)
posted by mstokes650 at 3:46 PM on September 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

Does the sort work low to high as well as high to low?
posted by deludingmyself at 5:03 PM on September 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

if you filter capital by resemblance to values expressed in ted talks you get an actually pretty incisive introduction to the field of science and technology studies.

if you filter it by eroticism as expressed by anaïs nin you get the introduction to a magical realist novel (maybe sci-fi?) that i'd really like to read.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 6:59 PM on September 6, 2019 [3 favorites]

Psyched that I can now sort my feed by gothness but have REAL quibbles about the mechanism
posted by babelfish at 8:29 PM on September 6, 2019 [2 favorites]

"Neoliberalism as Determined by Proximity to Famous Neoliberals"

gets me this tweet:
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1170242875944292352
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 1:57 AM on September 7, 2019 [1 favorite]

Is anyone else wondering what this would look like applied to the blue? (I know, I know, we don't do that here, but...)
posted by eirias at 10:42 AM on September 7, 2019 [1 favorite]