I deleted Twitter the day Musk bought it. Nothing good comes from that man. The Tesla could have been a budget-level EV that was with reach of your average car buyer. Instead he created a status symbol that most of us would never be able to afford. HeтАЩs become Donald Trump II. ... everything he touches turns to doodoo.
I've only recently explored Twitter and I'm appalled; it's a sewer of humanity at its worst. And this garbage dump of ugliness is headline news and a multi-billion dollar valuable asset and OMG what did Kanye or Elon or Don Jr. just say on Twitter?
But even if Twitter fell into a black hole and disappeared, the scary thing is that now we have seen the dark underbelly of humanity. Before we had Twitter, this was all simmering below the surface, but now we've seen what's been under the surface all along, and that is frightening.
Thanks Charlie for collecting these examples. They're terrifying, but to cure a disease you have to name it, see it. This is social cancer and now that we see it, the question is: how do we cure it?
Substack encourages cross-posting newsletter posts to Twitter, but when I typed in "neo-fascism" (the focus of my newsletter) my Twitter feed was deluged with some of the most vile and offensive political rhetoric i've seen in a long time. I checked out some the posters' sites and it only got worse.
I'm sure there is good info out there, and i'll keep exploring.
But I think part of the reason that so many offensive (to me) post are there is because of the ease of banging out 144 characters - that's just about enough to call people names and curse them and add wind-blown-flags and patriotic memes - but that's not enough to carry on any reasoned debate, like here at Charlie's site.
But thanks Max, I was going to Delete Twitter, but I'll give it another chance.
Shouldn't everyone just delete Twitter? (says the never-Twitter user).
Done three years ago. Wish I could redelete it !! Many times over.
I deleted Twitter the day Musk bought it. Nothing good comes from that man. The Tesla could have been a budget-level EV that was with reach of your average car buyer. Instead he created a status symbol that most of us would never be able to afford. HeтАЩs become Donald Trump II. ... everything he touches turns to doodoo.
I've only recently explored Twitter and I'm appalled; it's a sewer of humanity at its worst. And this garbage dump of ugliness is headline news and a multi-billion dollar valuable asset and OMG what did Kanye or Elon or Don Jr. just say on Twitter?
But even if Twitter fell into a black hole and disappeared, the scary thing is that now we have seen the dark underbelly of humanity. Before we had Twitter, this was all simmering below the surface, but now we've seen what's been under the surface all along, and that is frightening.
Thanks Charlie for collecting these examples. They're terrifying, but to cure a disease you have to name it, see it. This is social cancer and now that we see it, the question is: how do we cure it?
Before Twitter there were the walls in public bathrooms.
Which is where most of the comments on Twitter would be more at home.
Much preferred!
Substack encourages cross-posting newsletter posts to Twitter, but when I typed in "neo-fascism" (the focus of my newsletter) my Twitter feed was deluged with some of the most vile and offensive political rhetoric i've seen in a long time. I checked out some the posters' sites and it only got worse.
I'm sure there is good info out there, and i'll keep exploring.
But I think part of the reason that so many offensive (to me) post are there is because of the ease of banging out 144 characters - that's just about enough to call people names and curse them and add wind-blown-flags and patriotic memes - but that's not enough to carry on any reasoned debate, like here at Charlie's site.
But thanks Max, I was going to Delete Twitter, but I'll give it another chance.