I can't be the only classics nerd feeling like Elon Musk is having a Xerxes-lashes-the-Hellespont meltdown over #Twitter.

#History repeats itself. This time it's hubris in the digital world.

"Herodotus understood, over two millennia ago, a lesson we struggle with in modern times: that technology, neutral in itself, provides tools. Xerxes men could build a great bridge. But Xerxes forgot what it was to be a man. Technology can all too easily be abused." https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2310.htm #TwitterMigration