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a lot of twitter is people posting dramatically in a way that’s emotionally correct for them, but it translates poorly into plaintext where it’s technically incorrect and taken apart by pedants. this conflict is like the combustion engine that runs the place
person having a drink and thinking “god do men/women even know that ______???” in an obviously hyperbolic reaction to some very specific thing a friend said, and then they just tweet it to get it out of their system, and it triggers a bunch of other ppl from different contexts
then that goes viral and people disagree back and forth and write thinkpieces and it goes into the media and it’s all part of the grand theatre of humanity figuring itself out. it’s quite poetic and beautiful if you can zoom out and see the bigger picture
older thread kinda about the same thing https://t.co/0n021kVsBu
the matrix view of twitter occasionally reveals itself to me. I feel like I have about 80% clarity rn. (I never remember to tweet when I have 90-95% clarity). I almost wanna say “turn it off, it’s too powerful”- but I look again and I am transfixed. It’s a superhuman system https://t.co/HLLFsYJQgf