Dan Allison 🏕️ Cascade Camp Aug7-10

Cascade Camp 2026 approaches! Last year I didn't know what to expect because I hadn't been before. I'm so glad I went. It's hard to explain how hanging out with internet friends out in nature for a few days can be so transformative.

@Paul_Melman Stay healthy friend

Discharged!

@Paul_Melman Get well soon Paul

Went to the ER at like 10am bc I had chest pain and light headedness and now I think I'm gonna be stuck here forever

@_StevenFan ❤️

@danallison i like this one a lot

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

@ZyMazza whoa. that is awesome.

@danallison we have automated permaculture at home x.com/ZyMazza/status…

Automated permaculture, coming soon to a planet near you

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

@SarahAMcManus 😳🤩 how did I not know about hexaflexagons?! This is so cool. Thank you Sarah! Much to explore

@danallison Oooo have you ever made a drawing for a hexaflexagon??? not exactly the same thing but I think you'd make cool stuff!

it's actually really frustrating sometimes when i can't draw things in a way where every side is visible simultaneously. feels like we live in a video game with a weird mechanic that forces the visual field to only show one perspective at a time (or one time at a perspective).

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@kennyliu I used to do animation

@danallison Have you considered creating in other mediums when you hit this dimensional wall in drawing?

@pavedwalden @TVachaW 😐😄

@danallison @TVachaW These are like if the guy having a vision of Indra's Net in an Alex Grey painting felt indifferent about it

I don’t really have any pre-birth memories except for this very faint sense of being a unified hypersphere that sort of feels like this animation, but there’s no movement and no perspective. It’s all just simultaneous and intrinsically visible and inclusive of everything, including itself and everything outside of itself. And now somehow I find myself here as a human being living on planet Earth in 2026 writing a tweet about the hypersphere.

@RogerThisdell @nosilverv but it's the somatic sensations of seeing. there's light involved somehow.

@nosilverv @danallison No perspective because you're not referencing a visual phenomenon. Visual always has an implied perspective, unlike somatic sensations.

@meekaale totally. whose idea was this? i mean don't get me wrong, it's an interesting game mechanic. but it sorta gets old after a while. there should be like a toggle or something in game settings that let's you turn it off.

@danallison the visual field is a huge scam

@TVachaW i don't know if i'll ever get a direct rendition, but i sometimes catch glimpses of the vibe here and there.

@danallison wen Dan Allison stick man rendition of hypersphere?

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

This video got me thinking about marketing and what happens when the thing being marketed is changed by how it’s marketed. There’s a feedback loop where the people attending Cascade Camp choose to attend based on who else they expect will attend and whether or not they want to hang out with those people, which means marketing Cascade Camp to more people has to account for how that marketing will affect the perception of what categories of people are likely to attend Cascade Camp, which will affect who actually attends. The marketing or lack thereof is signaling the selection criteria by which attendees self-select into the group, thereby shaping the perceived selection criteria that informs the actual selection criteria. “Am I the kind of person who would want to go to an event that appeals to the kinds of people who would want to go to this event?” If you’ve read this entire tweet, then the answer is almost certainly yes and you should buy your tickets now cascade.camp