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5 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Re. "spreading disinformation," this is built into the social media business model, for this and many other reasons. We still haven't the first clue what to do about this very useful tool we're using. Humans are very inexperienced with it.
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I worry the First Amendment won't survive it, because at some point, we're going to say, "Our society can't survive unless we have *some* shared sense of epistemology." And we will be right to say that. If @Twitter and other social media companies don't figure this out,
they'll break liberal democracy for good. It's a massive, historic responsibility, and since I have no idea how to solve the problem, I don't envy them. I just hope they have a sense of how high the stakes are.
I never feel confident when I look at Mark Zuckerberg's face. He looks young, callow, and shallow to me. But I may be misjudging. And there may be thoughtful people behind the throne who recognize how serious this is.

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5 Apr
These doctors look so exhausted, traumatized, and despairing.
I'm sitting comfortably and healthily in my apartment while meanwhile in hospitals all around me they're fighting a war. And the trauma and stress of this for the medical professionals can, I think, reasonably be likened to wartime.
Around them people are dying, they are almost helpless to stop it, and their own lives are at immediate risk. It is not as loud and shocking as war and doesn't involve the same confrontation with the enormity of human evil,
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@nyttypos Sir or Madame, I realize you have a full-time job as an appellate lawyer. We probably can't lure you away, especially since we can't pay you--yet. But you have impressed me with your passion. I wonder if you'd like a new--and more rewarding--hobby:
Proofreading @cosmo_globalist. We could surely use a man like you. Or a woman like you. It would take you no more time than you invest in Tweeting irritably about The New York Times, but unlike the NY Times, we would consider you a treasure, not a pest, claireberlinski.substack.com/publish?utm_so…
and your efforts would be fruitful, not pointless. Would you consider it?
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3 Apr
Hey, @washingtonpost? This is disgusting. Give the man's family space to mourn privately. He didn't ask to be in the news; he didn't ask to be murdered; and they just lost their father, husband, son. How would *you* feel? washingtonpost.com/local/william-…
He's not the news. He's the *victim of a crime.* And you're stalking his family? Reporting every detail you can find about his family and their--until yesterday--perfectly normal, happy life? Why? To tantalize readers? For clicks?
It's in the public interest to know more about the murderer. It is not in the public interest to know so much about the victim that the press, minutes after the family, ---including his kids--have received by far the worst and most traumatic news they've received in their lives,
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1 Apr
Among the things you should listen to it to learn: What's the best canal palindrome? (Hint: It's not what you think.) What's the fastest way to get goods to Europe if the Suez Canal is blocked? (Hint: It's not what you think.)
What should you do if you're attacked by Somali pirates? (Truth: We don't know, actually.) In what way have EU relations with China in the past week resembled progressive FM rock in the late 1960s? What's the future of the China-EU trade deal? (Hint: No f-- way it gets ratified.)
Are we moving into a world beyond geography, or one in which geography returns with a vengeance? For that, no hints: you have to listen.

We are not all of the same mind.
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1 Apr
Yes, my God, yes. I wander through the world now in a cloud of puzzlement: What did I get up to do? Why is my wallet in the fridge? What on earth did I order on Amazon this time? These nice people calling me to tell me I'm about to host a conference--who *are* they?
Why must I preface every communication with, "Siri, find my phone?" How many loads of laundry have I run twice because I forgot to take it out before it started to rot? How many times have I stood up firmly to find item X only to find myself somehow losing the next four hours--
either searching for item X, in a blind fury, or forgetting to search for item X because suddenly I remember with horror there's something even more important I've forgotten to do? Something for which item *Y* is required--
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On the @cosmo_globalist Cosmopolicast we recorded yesterday, we did a go-round where everyone tried to figure out how to solve the #Suez problem. Hosted by @MoniqueCamarra, with @VivekYKelkar, @NighswanderJon, @akshaya_jose, @IlvesToomas, @RachelMotte, and @is_OwenLewis.
I, of course, said, "Why can't we just blow it up?"
But it turned out really interesting, when @IlvesToomas got us to look at a map and showed us that for pretty much every country but India--for which this is a disaster--it's a non-problem.
Yes, it's a traffic jam and a hassle for vessels that are stuck; but look at the map. Bienvenue, climate change! It's April. We don't really need the Suez Canal until next winter. So we can all stop worrying about it.
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