Tag Archives: social media

The Twitter That Was

Posted on 2022-11-14 by Garrett Wollman

Attention conservation notice: 6,000 words about the decline of a social-media platform, none of which are particularly original or well-informed. Since Elon Musk took control of Twitter at the end of October, like many people I’ve had to ponder a … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day: One of many things wrong with the Internet industry

Posted on 2016-02-15 by Garrett Wollman

This has been making the rounds of, yes, social media — at least among the lefty circles I move in — and will appear soon in the paper New York Review of Books: [MIT psychologist Sherry] Turkle argues against using … Continue reading →

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