{"id":84310,"date":"2023-08-19T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=84310"},"modified":"2023-08-18T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T22:28:13","slug":"twitter-used-to-work-well-but-now-he-receives-negative-comments-which-means-that-it-has-stopped-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/08\/19\/twitter-used-to-work-well-but-now-he-receives-negative-comments-which-means-that-it-has-stopped-working\/","title":{"rendered":"“Twitter used to work well, but now he receives negative comments, which means that it has stopped working”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray<\/a> on the claims that Twitter, er, I mean “X” is broken from people who are suddenly being exposed to unfriendly opinions that the old platform used to kindly keep out of their very comfortable bubbles:<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party’s go-to election lawyer, Marc Elias, is disturbed<\/a> by the decline of Twitter:<\/p>\n

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Twitter used to work well, but now he receives negative comments, which means that it has stopped working. People can criticize him and express disagreement, so the platform is broken. If it worked, he would only be praised.<\/p>\n

“Epistemic closure” had its pet rock moment in 2010, as the news media looked back on the George W. Bush years and the Iraq War and concluded that American neoconservatives had simply lost their ability to think.<\/p>\n

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[…]<\/p>\n

It was supposed to mean this<\/a>:<\/p>\n