@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

@charlyblack I think in the past half century or so in the US tarot comes into and out of fashion every couple of years, like bell bottoms or something, and we just happen to be in an uptick. that's my intuition at least? I dunno. agreed that this would be fascinating research to do though.

@charlyblack @aparrish weird, because i sense at least three cultural milieus involved

- tarot as stigmatized Roma-adjacent practice in the past

- pagan+queer folks reclaiming tarot

- normative(?) primarily-tech folks pouring across one of these borders? (akin to queer folk being the harbingers of gentrification?)

@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

@dataKnightmare yeah, I mean, for generative experiments like in the blog post or in a way similar to digital card games

@dataKnightmare I would read 'Tarots, gamification and digital generative art - an essay' tbh @aparrish

@charlyblack
Ah, yes, of course. I was a bit tired, plus I'm not much into card games. I do use tarots as a counsellor

@dataKnightmare 😂 👍

@charlyblack
No, serious. My diploma lab was on tarots. You'd be amazed. Of course, the goal must be counseling, not filching

@dataKnightmare wow, I thought you were ironic, I am surprised and intrigued... I guess my perception of tarots in Italy was just shaped by the fraud part of it