reading/reading about Emily Short's _Parrigues Tarot_ and I'm completely astounded, it's so good https://emshort.blog/2018/06/26/parrigues-tarot-draft/
@aparrish may I catch the chance to ask: are you aware of any studies/resources analyzing the spreading of the fascination of tarots among computer scientists/technologists and their algorithmic use perhaps?
@charlyblack I'm not aware of such a thing, no. I would be interested to find out though (starting with a confirmation of the underlying premise—I'm not sure myself that the fascination is "spreading"? maybe it's been there all along, or maybe it's just more noticeable lately for some unrelated reason)
@aparrish yeah 'spreading' is just my personal ignorant angle, not the best word... I come from a cultural framework where tarots have definitely a negative connotation, except for the historical origin as card games, and never saw them used in algorithmic contexts or used as a game-style way to interpret events, but in the online community (especially folks from the us) the fascination seems to me to be consistently there... or maybe I am terribly wrong and there's no such 'phenomenon' :P
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@amphetamine mmh this complicates even more my naive perspective, I see what you mean... and again it looks to me intertwined specifically with American culture in a way which is not trivial to parse from outside @aparrish