Thinking back to the all-hands AMA with Elon before the purchase was finalized, where someone asked him "what ideas do you have to make Twitter better" and he replied "maybe there's a flag we can add to posts to indicate that they're sarcastic or something".
That was the moment I realized:
"This dude just bought a social media website and doesn't know what /s is.
...we're all fucked."
When I was growing up, my best friend and I would hang out and host pretend NPR broadcasts. (On our version of Morning Edition, she was Linda Wertheimer, and I was Robert Siegel.)
The chance to be in an episode of This American Life is beyond anything I could have imagined for myself as a kid.
Grateful to @caseynewton for helping me tell this love story for trust and safety. To my friends and colleagues in internet sanitation: I hope I’ve done you proud.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/what-i-was-thinking-as-we-were-sinking
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