Hello everyone, welcome to the November 2022.

Ask me anything addition of the Mindscape podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

So I don't know what's going on in your info sphere these days, but in the corners where

I hang out, people are kind of obsessed with the idea of what's happening to Twitter

with Elon Musk buying it.

I'm very active on Twitter, pretty active, you know, a couple of tweets a day, maybe,

on average, not even every day do I do it.

I know there's some people who do dozens or hundreds a day.

I'm not in that super level.

But it's valuable to me, Twitter.

It's valuable to a lot of people who are journalists and writers, especially I've met friends on Twitter.

It's an important thing.

It's also a bit of a mess, right?

It's completely unmotorated.

I don't, it's not completely unmotorated.

That's not true, but it's largely unmotorated.

I'm not thinking about hate speech and things like that.

I'm thinking about just dumb goofy comments that people leave.

Anyone can come in to your Twitter thread and say something which doesn't always lead to

the best conversations.

So I've always thought of Twitter as extremely useful, but useful not for debating deep issues,

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