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Chris Hayes on the obscenity of private ownerhip of a social network

. . Because of its importance I have copied here the beginning Chris Hayes article in the New York Times.  The full article is online. While my own archive is just 1/12 the size of his, I feel similarly about protecting its contents from exploitation by a madman.  I also want to see twitter or … Continue reading

Krapp’s Last Tape

  Now with 13 years covered by 3100 tweets retrieved in my archive, I’m at liberty to look through everything I observed and quibbled on and criticized and got excited about.  It is all twitter, and feels like twitter, and scrolls up and down like twitter, but it is really a corpse; it’s all in … Continue reading

The Last Tweet

I posted this last of my tweets on October 31, 2022: “Folks, it has been a good run. I joined 2009 and made many friends on-line, found unexpected connections. Twitter’s format lends itself to the aperçu, to the anecdotal, and this is why I liked it.  Five years ago, my Nobel Prize brought me many … Continue reading


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