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May 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
TikTok is the fentanyl of social media.
Same country of origin, should probably be banned, and if you dabble in it you're going to come to hours later utterly wrecked.
Gf sends me a link, I click through, and I need rehab and isolation after.
I will concede some creators are really quite clever and make maximal aesthetic use of the format. In the same way that there are moments of creative lucidity while intoxicated that make it all seem worthwhile.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Apr 30
Now that Twitter has been 'liberated' (somewhat) I'm starting to realize that the elite conception of 'free speech' has been utterly warped by the past few years of 'content moderation,' plus an American journalist tradition of (nominal) viewpoint neutrality and both-sides-ism.
The past few decades of US journalism have been unusual: mostly an artifact of the advertising business model that needed relatively inoffensive content and wide audiences, it's grown into idea that mass media need be 'balanced' and 'fact checked'.

wired.com/story/journali…
This is neither the journalism that prevailed in the early republic, nor what exists now even in Europe.

In Europe, particularly if you zoom into politically volatile regions like Cataluña, there is no 'objectivity': different papers have different versions of reality.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Apr 29
My latest for Pull Request, where I take on @elonmusk's takeover of Twitter and how 'free speech' is being defined away by the media class into something utterly unrecognizable.

thepullrequest.com/p/freeze-peach…
@elonmusk The Elon/Twitter story has been met with hysterics from some quarters of the media class.

A more sane take, and also a very succinct and articulate framing of the new consensus on 'free speech', is by @noUpside.

I'll be quoting her essay liberally.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
DiResta lays out the three pillars of The New Free Speech in an early graf, and I'll be considering them in turn:

1. Twitter is not the public square

2. Content moderation is not censorship

3. Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach Image
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Apr 26
Now that the anti-Miami gf unmuted me, it's time for some more Miami content.

One of the real non-party events I attended was demo day for a local startup incubator run along YC lines.

This is real building.

@JamesTamplin has the rundown here.
@JamesTamplin As a Miami boy, Valley people often ask me what I think of Miami's prospects as a tech hub.

For a long time now, Miami has been a major business hub for LatAm--a Singapore of the region, so to speak.

So that side of the hub equation is there...and has been for a while.
The other side is whether Miami has a builder culture or not. Historically that's been less true.

But SF didn't have much of a builder culture either (people tend to equate SF with the Valley, and forget there wasn't much tech in SF before ~2005 or so).
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Apr 18
We need a name for this thing everyone does now of projecting the worst-case scenario, to the point of damning hypothetical counterfactuals, on everything that happens everywhere.

No matter how much it strains more level-headed skepticism.
Anyone who doesn’t live under a rock has come across Muslims praying. In NYC, it happens all the time (I frequented a kiosk whose owner could be regularly found on his prayer rug outside…nobody even raises an eyebrow). Just last week, came across an Uber driver doing the same.
You see it everywhere.

Take ‘the current thing’ thing. Memetic nihilism aside, it’s not even a correct assessment of elite unanimity (and religiosity) around Ukraine.

You mean to tell me Ukraine support is up there with wokeness and CRT and gender and BLM? Please. If only.
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Apr 14
As is now likely clear, I think many American conservatives and alt-whatever commenters have thoroughly embarrassed themselves with the Ukraine war.

Some, it would seem, continue to double-down on their delusional positions.
Leave aside the idiocy of the anti-anti-Putin people and those who thought Russia some bulwark of Christian Europe. The bodies at Bucha are the damning reply to all that.

And forget the memetic nihilism of the 'current thing' people, combatting simulacra with more simulacra.
Even the 'moderate' position in this @amconmag piece is in la-la land:

What we have *isn't* a warmongering US egging on reluctant Ukrainians to immolate themselves in war.

We have Ukraine willing to fight to the last man begging the West for weapons to avoid that grim fate.
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Apr 10
An unusual Sunday read for Pull Request.

Reflections on going on Rogan, and what he means for American media. As well as some other 'pseudo-events' going on.

Plus! A (quasi) anniversary reflection on the Pull Request re-launch and *that* company.

thepullrequest.com/p/joe-and-i
A 'pseudo-event' is made-for-consumption media event, usually involving celebrities: entities known for their well-known-ness.

These now seem natural, but were once odd: life once consisted of real people and events.

Boorstin's book is outstanding.

amzn.to/3xd6ZwR
So what's it like after going on the biggest pseudo-event of our time, the Joe Rogan Experience?

(I get asked this a lot.)

Everything is different: Sugar is sweeter, the sky is bluer, beer tastes better, and attractive members of the opposite sex swoon in my presence.
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