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Well put these very relevant thoughts on language and communication.

As long as I can keep track of your writings and ideas, I’m good.

You’re one of my favourite warriors.

Rock on.

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I've never had reason to express Twitter rage as well as you. My Wordpress links were automatically posted on Twitter, done for SEO credit, and not for interaction. I despised how condensed thoughts were more popular than long form. Several years ago, when it was obvious that it was an insane asylum against our global interest, I deleted my account. Thus, I've never been addicted, but I hear that methadone and ivermectin helps.

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'If Twitter becomes too chaotic, its functionaries find recourse in Substack and Patreon subscriptions whose clickbait ethos reflects the reality they’ve made for themselves, one for which brands compete for market demographics, barely able to stay afloat in a participatory cacophony of hackneyed discussions. It is a dynamic whose skills were previously reserved for media punditry, but which have now been universally adopted from the micro celebrity to the media loudmouth.' Eric-John Russell, introduction to A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers and Fraud. By Jaime Semprún.

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