I wonder if the bottomless, swirling meanness of twitter is partially the result of pressure to de-tool tribal "bubbles." We used to be able to share and upload our friends' block lists, for example
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By the time someone complained *to my employer* that *a bot I had written* had retweeted something racist, I had begun to see that this heterogenous experimental utopia may actually be a fucking trashfire
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I don't think that twitter is the problem — or, more precisely, I think twitter is an instantiation of a technology we won't be reboxing, and shouldn't abandon even if we could. I do think we *need* to have more tools to protect ourselves from mobs that can coalesce within hours.
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