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Well, not much housekeeping here today. I've spent much less time on social media of late.

So much less time in fact that I really can't actually judge whether what I've seen there

this week just reflects, especially contentious week or whether I have changed in my sense of

what is the expected ambient level of hostility and lunacy on Twitter. It has seemed

completely crazy every time I've checked back in over there. Also, I just reread the Unibombers

Manifesto for the first time since it was originally published, as you might recall under

threat of further maiming and murder. It is a slightly crazy document. You can certainly hear

Kaczynski grinding his teeth in the background more or less throughout. But the truth is it is

better reasoned and modulated than half of what I see on Twitter. This is from people with

blue checkmarks by their names and large followings. So I don't know what it means to be able to

honestly say that half of the people on Twitter seem less hinged than a man who was sending bombs

in the mail. But it does seem that we're performing an experiment on ourselves, the consequences of

which are as yet undetermined. Anyway, I'm very happy to have withdrawn to the degree that I have.

It feels far more sane. One of the things that happened this week is Coleman Hughes, who's been a

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