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14 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Don't want to speak for Alex, but my experience with high-follower web3 enthusiasts is that they rapidly block any form of public criticism. The only twitter group that comes near them in terms of inability to cope with opposing views are venture capitalists.
Web3 is an uncensorable, truly democratic vehicle for free expression where the powerful can no longer censor views they don't want to hear, and I'll instantly block anyone who says otherwise.
People have vastly different experiences on this site and I don't hold muting/blocking against anyone, but if you're an aspiring public intellectual with 500K followers who can brook no substantive dissent, it's your own thinking that suffers. TW: drivel foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/11/bit…
The intellectual butthurt problem on this website is out of control. I think if you're a dude with over 100K followers on this site, you should only be able to mute, not block.
I've had people who follow or reply to me get preemptively blocked by @pmarca or @paulg, even it's like in a lasagna thread.

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The Senate is giving itself 15 weeks of paid vacation in 2022.
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Senator @SenBlumenthal appeared on Saturday at an event organized by the Connecticut (!) Communist Party to celebrate the 102nd anniversary of the founding of CPUSA. This is a system that murdered some 100M people, and subjugates over a billion today. facebook.com/events/new-hav…
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13 Dec
Yay, I get to do my rant about the Sabatier reaction in spaaaaace!

Gather round, everyone, and listen to the story of:

CO₂ + 4H₂ →CH₄ + 2H₂O
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