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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mashable.com/article/please-stop-tweeting-leaving-twitter"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mashable.com/article/please-stop-tweeting-leaving-twitter</a></p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mashable.com/article/i-was-going-to-quit-twitter-but-elon-musk-takeover"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mashable.com/article/i-was-going-to-quit-twitter-but-elon-musk-takeover</a></p>
<p>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. <br>
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<p>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).<br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>Musk's attempts to characterize Twitter as a "town square" feels
very off-base in many ways:</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-twitter-is-unlikely-to-become-the-digital-town-square-elon-musk-envisions/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-twitter-is-unlikely-to-become-the-digital-town-square-elon-musk-envisions/</a></p>
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<p>What do "town squares" look like in "company towns"? And why
does most social media so often feel more like a rolling
street-brawl?<br>
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<p>I worked *peripherally* on a project at LANL trying to address
the possibilities/implications roughly 30 years ago:</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/00285557.pdf"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/00285557.pdf</a></p>
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<p>there were some good insights, but it was all so young and fresh
and raw at the same time...<br>
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