I want to see inside Twitter's sealed black box now. I want to see the all the gears with their sharp teeth.

PAW’s November issue is now online, featuring Walter Kirn ’83’s road trip to understand America, Jesse Marsch ’96 coaching an English Premier League team, and #Princeton ’s decision to divest from fossil fuels. Read more at paw.princeton.edu.

Except I just checked and the tomb is empty

Time for an all-fronts push on literacy

The intellectual command economy on Twitter enabled the production of ideas that will go down in history with the Yugo car and Soviet toilet paper for quality and durability

Good day in Munchkin land

What a curious sort of democracy we have, that free speech would be a threat to it.

As Twitter gets more real, the rest of the media will be exposed as even more artificial and contrived than the skeptical suspected . A foreground-background reversal will occur, and it will prove quite startling, I think. The fakers won't be able to finesse it. Many will quit.

I find it interesting that just when it appeared the takeover of Twitter was inevitable & the censorship regime would end, the establishment suddenly started questioning the closing of schools during the pandemic, vacillating about the vaccines, & endorsing the lab-leak theory

I never got a blue check. I didn't want the mark of the vampire.

Now the ghoul is dead and I'm still here.

The first day of new Twitter needs to be archived by the Smithsonian. A day in the life of the country and the world that will repay study for future historians. I'm quite serious, Elon Musk

The clever gotcha people love to tell me that blocking people who annoy me contradicts my devotion to free speech. Baloney. It's me freely telling the pests to take a walk and them freely griping about it to whomever.

The fun part of this new Twitter is that we account holders are the chief content moderators now. I am doing my duty by blocking as fast as I can, and boy are the candidates showing up in droves!

Happy Halloween

Twitter Liberation Day: 2022-10-27

I just translated Paul D. Thacker's article 'Lies, Damned Lies, and Fact Checks' to Chinese. I used to fully support Fact Check, but it very quickly betrayed its original mission and mutated into a powerful tool of the censorship apparatus.

Here's a copy:
matters.news/@xhzhang/32938…

Contemplating my first Elon Musk now-it-can-be-said tweet. So many ideas. I'll let it drop tomorrow afternoon.

I'm delighted.

We'll hold him to it,