A friend of mine took me aside not long ago. ”John, I’m worried,” he said.
He proceeded to point out several things that I myself am compelled to acknowledge are classic warning signs. After the success of my experiment, I’ve subscribed long-term to the controversial Blue Check over at Twi… X… at TwiX. I’ve since posted a link for DogeCoin tips in my bio. I’ve now got a crypto wallet and I’ve begun speculating at RobinHood.
“Are you still even a writer?” he asked me.
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Early this morning, all six primary voters in Dixville Notch voted for Nikki Haley.
Yes, today is the New Hampshire primary, and it’s gonna be a strange one. For one thing, the current frontrunner and sitting president isn’t even on the ballot, thanks to the DNC picking a fight with the state over its “first in the nation” law. For another, it’s open to everyone, even if they’re not registered party members. It’ll be tough to call.
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Lots of people disapprove of sending military aid to Israel, and there are a million different reasons. Some support Hamas, believe it or not. Others are anti-Hamas and pro-Palestine; they want to avoid civilian deaths, and who can blame them? And then there are a few who just don’t want to spend the money — and, again, that makes sense.
For those who just want to slaughter Jews, I have nothing for you. You’re a waste of human flesh and I sincerely hope bad things happen to you for the rest of your hopefully brief life.
For everyone else, I have a story.
(more…)“People these days are either completely apathetic or they’re so full of rage that they can’t think!”
You say this like it’s a bad thing. If you make people think, that’s uncomfortable. When you ask questions, you make them reconsider their hard-won certainties. Which in academia or politics is a good thing.
In life, it’s not.
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EDITORIAL
The amount of propaganda being spread in this war is appalling. That people choose to believe it without confirmation just because it happens to agree with their own biases… arguably that’s worse.
There exists an anti-American propaganda account on TwiX today that generates millions of hits by celebrating military atrocities committed by Russia, acts of terrorism by Hamas and Hezbollah, and civilian casualties of war. On it, corpse porn is reposted every fifteen minutes in order to generate profitable ad-share, subscriptions, and donations. It is too big to be toppled by the Community Notes mechanism.
Mind you, it’s unreasonable to blame the platform. Virtually every other social media organization permits the same thing in the name of free speech.
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(If you’re new to the Great TwiX Experiment, click here for Week 1.)
Yes, it’s closing rapidly on the fifth of November. No, the title isn’t a “V For Vendetta” reference. Woulda been cool if it was, though.
Right, so: Where were we?
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Something I keep hearing, over and over: “My vote doesn’t matter!”
It’s either that or another similar message, like, They’re all bought and paid for anyway, or One person can’t change things, or even I’m too busy.
Nonsense! I’m writing today to tell you not only that change is possible, not only that you have the power to help, but exactly how you can do this.
(more…)This is a simple account of what’s happening from as unbiased a perspective as we can manage. To see our biases, scroll to the bottom.
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
Starting before dawn on 07 October 2023, militant forces led by Hamas invaded towns and villages in southern Israel, slaughtering civilians and abducting women, children, and foreigners as hostages. Paraglider troops deliberately targeted a music festival, at which location alone they killed, raped, and captured hundreds. They then returned to the Gaza Strip and celebrated it as a major victory.
(more…) (If you’re new to the Great TwiX Experiment, click here for Week 1.)
I’ve been on vacation for a couple of weeks, and these reports have lagged to the point where they’re no longer even close to weekly. I’d thought I could keep up with them easily, but life intervened, and I left my data behind at home.
So here instead we have an interim bulletin, complete with…
NEWS FLASH! Elon Musk now pays me to TwiX!
(This article is Part 3 of a series. For the first installment, click here.)
Hello, loyal readers, and welcome to Week Three of the Great Blue Check Experiment! In case you’re new here, I’m your host, @gnerphk on TwiX and J. Millard Simpson on any site that publishes my fiction. I’m coming to you today thanks to the wonders of caffeine overdose, having only just met a 4000-word short deadline that may or may not sell. Don’t blame me if the letters shake; blame the stimulants.
As you may recall, in the first article I discussed getting story clicks; in the second, the effects of being classed as “potentially abusive content”. Today I’d like to talk a bit more about the revised System, time-and-effort efficiency, and clickthrough rates.
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