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# 20260813

that-which-works-like-love is the ... hum hum, it's the activity with the fastest refresh-rate. it's *just* short of realtime, and nothing can get between it and realtime, definitionally

*however* there is no static presence, "static presence" is a contradiction in terms, and so if you're not tracking that-which-works-like-love it'll *rotate*, and like two polar filters you won't see *anything* in the orthogonal orientation. darkest before the dawn and all that.

once you figure it out, no troubles. once you ... hm, subscribe? to the type? once your first priority is looking for the love, when *it* fires, *you'll* fire, and nothing can get between you and it and realtime, definitionally

think of it maybe like an async cpu where jobs are identified by type, and *ordered* by type? maybe?

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(earlier)

I think the main thing is that information technology caught up to realtime and wasn't prepared for what realtime actually means

historically, information has been *historical*, i.e. the information was *assumed* to be somewhat out of date

but now that we're caught up we have to figure out how to let the recording apparatus *release us* so we can actually do the living part of realtime life


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