We never even noticed the demise of the glossy magazine. One day they were just gone, missing from waiting room tables everywhere as though they’d never been, with only empty racks and dusty outlines to mark their passing.
By and large they’re quite unmourned, it’s sad to say. It’s tough to miss the sort of writing one only reads while killing time waiting for a haircut, articles you can put down unfinished without regret.
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Let me preface this by saying: I hope I’m wrong, but I fear that I’m not.
I’m relatively new to Crypto, though not to computers, currency, the collectibles market, or economics. I’ve understood basic blockchain theory for years, and simply opted to not participate. True wealth, after all, is independent of which coin one uses.
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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?
(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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(This article is Part 2 of a series. For the first installment, click here.)
Hello, sports fans, and welcome to Week Two of the Great Blue Check Experiment! I’m your host, @gnerphk on Twitter and J. Millard Simpson on any site that publishes my fiction. We’re speaking to you today from the bottom of a well. It’s dry, so I won’t drown, but the walls are stone and there appears to be no way out, which makes things awkward.
(more…) I asked your advice, and I took it. This is what happened next.
Quick recap for those who missed it: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short article about whether or not I was going to pay Elon the $8 for my Twitter Blue Check. …Uh, X? X-Twitter? TwiX? My TwiX Blue Check.
If you’re interested, click the link and you can read all the pros and cons I listed. I went into the ethics of it as well as the morality (there’s a difference), and then the cost-benefit analysis. And finally I confessed I was stumped, and asked for advice.
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For those of you celebrating Elon Musk’s recent insane move of buying Twitter above market value and its subsequent imminent demise: Sorry, Charlie. You’re being played good and proper.
First, let’s go through what’s happened and put things in perspective. Then, let’s see what’s really going on.
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EDITORIAL
Fox News is blaming Biden; MSNBC’s blaming the war in Ukraine. CNN is talking about sanctions on Russia that aren’t even in place yet, and pundits are bringing up factors ranging from COVID restrictions lifting to supply chain economics. There are even some perfectly reasonable references to the now-defunct Keystone XL pipeline.
Regardless of how reasonable it all sounds, none of this is responsible for gas prices spiking almost $2 a gallon in the past month, and saying it is diverts attention from the real problem, and what it is we actually can do about it.
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