This is a good article about the current state of Twitter. It's behind a paywall, but you can read it all if you turn off JavaScript. (I run Opera for this purpose.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

@FranklyCurious

you can also read it for free here

Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time

The social network has never seen chaos quite like this.

🎁 archive.fo/VOqMw

@peeppeepcircus @FranklyCurious

A good read. Like, stuff WE all already know, but the validation is both thorough and succinct.

@CLManussier @FranklyCurious

it is a good one, lays it all out.

although i have been one of the ones thinking Elon bought it to sink it. since he makes and has made so many ridiculous and anti-democracy comments, i thought it was an Occam's razor thing.

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@peeppeepcircus @FranklyCurious

Whereas, I see the Occam's Razor answer as "He thinks he's a genius, but he's not." Also, rich people w/significant diagnosable conditions often don't get help because they're surrounded by sycophants, not ppl willing to intervene. They can be eccentric mad geniuses instead of someone in need of medication and therapy.

Bottom line, he was born on third & thinks he hit a triple, and probably everyone in his life has validated that belief.

@CLManussier @peeppeepcircus I agree with all this. And based on his takeover of Twitter, there may have been people around to help him. But he would just drive them away. Certainly he is even more deluded about his brilliance than the media is.

@FranklyCurious @CLManussier

that there has been a huge public unmasking of his genius myth (a false myth) is great.

or, this could also be his "people just don't like my paintings" moment.

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