https://mashable.com/article/please-stop-tweeting-leaving-twitter
https://mashable.com/article/i-was-going-to-quit-twitter-but-elon-musk-takeover
I have a *very* limited twitter engagement myself. Same with FB and
*zero* with anything else *but* Instagram where I restrict myself to
viewing and posting and liking the equivalent of "family" snapshots for
my family and closer friends.
I tried *mostly* to ignore the implications of a Musk
privatization-takeover of Twitter during all the on-again off-again
period but/and now as it has become a "done deal" I feel more able to
engage in thinking about that (unable to avoid thinking about that?). I
thought I might de-activate/delete my nearly unused account when I
discovered that I had a renewed interest (morbid fascination) in
watching it spin out (decohere) or not from the front row. I found
myself looking for whether Musk's magic pixie dust would somehow trigger
a phase transition (likely there will be one, but probably not the kind
most of us hope for).
Earlier discussions on *this* forum touched on what would make for a
proper *metaverse* (not the one Zuckerberg is trying to create from
whole-cloth). My (very loose) engagement with the Cardano/Catalyst
work and interest in blockchain is motivated by this as well.
Musk's attempts to characterize Twitter as a "town square" feels very
off-base in many ways:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-twitter-is-unlikely-to-become-the-digital-town-square-elon-musk-envisions/
What do "town squares" look like in "company towns"? And why does
most social media so often feel more like a rolling street-brawl?
I worked *peripherally* on a project at LANL trying to address the
possibilities/implications roughly 30 years ago:
http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/00285557.pdf
there were some good insights, but it was all so young and fresh and raw
at the same time...
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