Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck?
Jack Dorsey, the extend-o-bearded CEO who co-founded Twitter and whose fame grew with that of his increasingly powerful platform during the Trump years, resigned today. His departure is the latest plot point in a long-developing Internet tragicomedy, which has seen what was supposed to be a historically democratizing technological tool transformed into a dystopian force for censorship and control. The departure of Dorsey, the rare CEO who not only has a conscience but appears to consult it more than once every few years, is bad news for those who already had complaints about the company, which during his tenure came to occupy a central role in what s left of American intellectual culture.
Matt Taibbi.
Twitter is currently a shallow pool of [bad stuff] with eddies of goodness. It’s addictive at least to the addiction-prone. I don’t agree with Matt that Dorsey kept it mostly clean. Twitter is utterly biased in who and what it bans. Remember Hunter’s laptop? And many other examples. But still, it could get worse, and probably will.
The big, bushy man o’ the woods beard is the new goatee. I expect to see some little parasites leap out of it at any moment. And it requires a lot of grooming just to look ungroomed. Ridiculous.