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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@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.