And so it goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exsatE-DUk

#DaylightSavingTime

Don't listen to the government.

DST is a scam. Don't turn your clocks back, don't fall back, fall forwards.

Stay safe everyone.

#FallForwards

NO, I said I wanted a BIG salad dammit

I have weekly “tech support” calls with an old friend in NJ. He is paranoid schizophrenic, and nearing 80 years. We “fix his phone” every week, but it’s really just an excuse to spend time in a structure that works for his conversation patterns.

Tonight we found an old late-60s high school yearbook online, and for *a shining moment* the veil lifted and he told me some very lucid stories about his life in high school.

Rare, shimmering gift! — his thoughts are usually only circular.

#Twitter trained us all to tweet a certain way - namely, in a way that emulated what we saw others wrote when they got "liked" a lot.

Twitter taught us how to subtweet, how to snarky quote-tweet, how to clapback and "this u?" and a host of other objectively bad behaviors that - nonetheless - our primate brains told us would get us "liked".

People didn't always tweet this way. It was a gradual evolutionary process. Hard to see it until you've been away from it for a while...

(cont. 7h later because #dos)

#CoSo represents a true opportunity for us to "reboot" our primate brains and rid ourselves o f the bad behaviors #Twitter rewarded.

Without an algorithm to optimize for engagement, and without "like" counts to make it too easy to see who's writing what and getting the dopamine rewards, we can make this space something completely better, safer, kinder, and more reasonable.

So here's your homework, #CosoNauts :