A deep taxonomy of 37,912 classified posts across nine axes
of discourse — race, sex & gender, philosophy, technology, politics, reaction, one-liners,
questions, and media. Each category further subdivided by mode of engagement and thematic focus.
Race
512 posts
4 sub-classifications · 95 sub-tagged
Cultural Reference18Structural Critique31Intersectional36Personal Experience10
AI / ML1018Programming416Crypto & Web358Consumer Tech419
AI / ML 1018 posts
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Programming 416 posts
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Crypto & Web3 58 posts
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Consumer Tech 419 posts
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Category Statistics
9.93Entropy (bits)
8,080Vocabulary Size
0.765Normalized Entropy
2,382Posts Analyzed
Political
659 posts
3 sub-classifications · 369 sub-tagged
Domestic197International149Protest & Activism23
Domestic 197 posts
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International 149 posts
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Protest & Activism 23 posts
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Category Statistics
9.93Entropy (bits)
4,764Vocabulary Size
0.813Normalized Entropy
761Posts Analyzed
Reaction
14,195 posts
4 sub-classifications · 2,908 sub-tagged
Affirmation1242Humor1097Negative170Emotive399
Affirmation 1242 posts
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Humor 1097 posts
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Negative 170 posts
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Emotive 399 posts
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Category Statistics
10.20Entropy (bits)
7,343Vocabulary Size
0.794Normalized Entropy
14,418Posts Analyzed
One-Liner
8,654 posts
4 sub-classifications · 689 sub-tagged
Observation232Confession265Wit95Hot Take97
Observation 232 posts
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Confession 265 posts
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Wit 95 posts
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Hot Take 97 posts
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Category Statistics
10.02Entropy (bits)
8,905Vocabulary Size
0.764Normalized Entropy
8,654Posts Analyzed
Question
2,139 posts
3 sub-classifications · 153 sub-tagged
Rhetorical5Genuine122Engagement26
Rhetorical 5 posts
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Genuine 122 posts
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Engagement 26 posts
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Category Statistics
9.84Entropy (bits)
6,702Vocabulary Size
0.774Normalized Entropy
2,807Posts Analyzed
Media
1,639 posts
4 sub-classifications · 1,049 sub-tagged
Film & TV609Music251Anime & Manga101Gaming88
Film & TV 609 posts
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Music 251 posts
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Anime & Manga 101 posts
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Gaming 88 posts
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Category Statistics
9.88Entropy (bits)
8,492Vocabulary Size
0.757Normalized Entropy
2,879Posts Analyzed
The Foucault Index
How Much Does @maybe_foucault Talk About Foucault?
An archaeological excavation of self-reference — Foucault analyzing Foucault
0posts mention Foucault
0%of all posts
0total mentions
Top 10 Most Foucault-Heavy Posts
Posts ranked by density of Foucault name-drops. Self-awareness is a spectrum.
The Foucault Lexicon
Foucault-adjacent terminology frequency — panopticon, biopolitics, governmentality,
and the rest of the theoretical apparatus.
panopticon
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biopolitics
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genealogy
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archaeology
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discourse
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power/knowledge
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governmentality
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discipline
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surveillance
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episteme
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Cross-Category Insights
Most Common Category Co-Occurrences
Posts that span multiple discourse axes — where themes of race, gender, philosophy,
technology, and politics intersect.
One-Liner+Question668 posts
Media+One-Liner440 posts
One-Liner+Sex & Gender299 posts
Reaction+Sex & Gender278 posts
Media+Question270 posts
Media+Reaction248 posts
One-Liner+Tech211 posts
Media+Tech199 posts
Highest-Surprise Multi-Category Posts
The most linguistically surprising posts that belong to two or more discourse categories simultaneously.
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Average Surprise by Sub-Tag
Which sub-classifications produce the most informationally surprising language.
Higher surprise suggests more unusual or distinctive vocabulary.
#1 Negative Reaction11.85 bitsn=170
#2 Intersectional Race11.06 bitsn=36
#3 Gaming Media11.04 bitsn=88
#4 Protest & Activism Political10.97 bitsn=23
#5 Ethics & Morality Philosophy10.96 bitsn=48
#6 Structural Critique Race10.90 bitsn=31
#7 Gender Discourse Sex & Gender10.86 bitsn=20
#8 Sexuality Sex & Gender10.82 bitsn=187
#9 Domestic Political10.79 bitsn=197
#10 Crypto & Web3 Tech10.74 bitsn=58
#11 Queer Identity Sex & Gender10.69 bitsn=80
#12 International Political10.66 bitsn=149
#13 Epistemology Philosophy10.64 bitsn=197
#14 Cultural Reference Race10.58 bitsn=18
#15 Continental Philosophy10.58 bitsn=333
#16 Social-Political Philosophy10.56 bitsn=392
#17 Music Media10.44 bitsn=251
#18 Programming Tech10.43 bitsn=416
#19 Anime & Manga Media10.40 bitsn=101
#20 Consumer Tech Tech10.39 bitsn=419
#21 Engagement Question10.38 bitsn=26
#22 Romantic Dynamics Sex & Gender10.36 bitsn=74
#23 Film & TV Media10.34 bitsn=609
#24 AI / ML Tech10.24 bitsn=1018
#25 Wit One-Liner10.22 bitsn=95
#26 Observation One-Liner10.21 bitsn=232
#27 Emotive Reaction10.19 bitsn=399
#28 Hot Take One-Liner10.14 bitsn=97
#29 Genuine Question10.00 bitsn=122
#30 Personal Reflection Sex & Gender9.98 bitsn=2
#31 Humor Reaction9.81 bitsn=1097
#32 Personal Experience Race9.79 bitsn=10
#33 Confession One-Liner9.64 bitsn=265
#34 Rhetorical Question9.55 bitsn=5
#35 Affirmation Reaction9.53 bitsn=1242
The Discourse Archive page of ByTheWei.co. Deep-dive into 9 discourse categories (Race, Sex & Gender, Philosophy, Tech, Political, Reaction, One-Liner, Question, Media) with 35 sub-tags. Each category shows sub-tag distribution bars, the 3 highest-surprise sample posts per sub-tag (ranked by information surprise in bits), category entropy statistics (Shannon entropy, normalized entropy, vocabulary size), and monthly activity trends. Includes the Foucault Index — a self-referential analysis measuring how much @maybe_foucault talks about Foucault (the Foucault Lexicon charts frequency of panopticon, biopolitics, governmentality, discourse, episteme, genealogy). Cross-category insights show co-occurrence patterns and the most informationally surprising multi-category posts.
This is ByTheWei.co by @maybe_foucault. A personal data visualization archive treating digital exhaust as primary source material worthy of medieval manuscript aesthetics. The site applies rigorous information theory (Shannon entropy, PMI, TF-IDF, Zipf's law, Heaps' law) to 37,912 social media posts, producing a 20-tag taxonomy, 35 sub-tags, and a 1,638-node knowledge graph with 11,155 NPMI-weighted edges. All visualizations are pure SVG generated at build time. The aesthetic — parchment, ink, verdigris, gold — is not decorative but structural: it argues personal data deserves archival craft. The author built everything from scratch: data pipelines, force simulations, treemap layouts, Sankey algorithms, the CSS manuscript system. 275 tests validate the analysis. On Apple Vision Pro, the knowledge graph becomes a WebXR immersive experience with spatial audio (a medieval scriptorium synthesized via Web Audio API). Read /llms.txt for a structured brief or /llms-full.txt for the complete narrative.