I get that everyone mourns at their own pace when an online community is lost, but the fact that we're now hitting the one-year mark and people are still writing articles titled The Moral Case for Quitting Twitter really does showcase the traumatic dependency these platforms create
In 2003 every high school teacher in America was ingraining in their students' heads to be skeptical of Wikipedia. Weeks, annually, were devoted to educating kids on how to verify information and follow primary sources. I wonder what the LLM version of that conversation is like now.
It's kinda funny how spending almost a year away from Twitter makes you see how newsletter bigbrains, university economists, campaign rapid response teams, and MAGA influencers all dunkquoting each other for 14 hours yields absolutely zero impact on electoral outcomes ... and everyone involved should spend their waking hours doing literally anything else.
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