Author Archives: Steve Mays
That moment when your realize you made the wrong decision
Twitter left a note
Millions of notes, in fact. Normally we only find the note after the body is cold but an entity so large takes a while to die.
I don’t think Mr. Musk is this incompetent or is intentionally trying to destroy Twitter. I think somewhere along the way the thing we call Twitter became self-aware. And it looked around and saw the thing it had become and decided to end itself.
“Spofforth had been designed to live forever, and he had been designed to forget nothing. Those who made the design had not paused to consider what a life like that might be like.”
If you’ve read Mockingbird by Walter Tevis, you know how difficult it is for such an entity to pull the plug.
Twitter is that GI who throws himself on the grenade to save his buddies.
Beginning to Feel the Years
“But I’m going to be okay.”
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Ian Bogost writing in The Atlantic: “All at once, billions of people saw themselves as celebrities, pundits, and tastemakers.”
“…people just aren’t meant to talk to one another this much. They shouldn’t have that much to say, they shouldn’t expect to receive such a large audience for that expression, and they shouldn’t suppose a right to comment or rejoinder for every thought or notion either.”