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This Elon trying to buy twitter thing is going to go down as a harambe style watershed zeitgeist moment 🤔 Something rather sci-fi remarkable about the idea that one guy can buy an entire small but pretty complete world. Like Magarthea in HHG
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In HHG, earth is actually a custom supercomputer planet built for some super-rich hyper dimensional aliens by Magarthea. Humans are just some mediocre members of another shitty species who crash landed on it (B ark Golgafrinchans). Today felt like the day Arthur Dent learned this
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In terms of effective power to set the direction and moral rules under which Twitter is developed, it's not that big a change, surely. A single order of magnitude or so? The big change is the uncertainty. This is not profit-motivated investment. It's less predictable.
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