From my start on Twitter, about 8 years ago, I have striven to keep my brand professional, mostly exchanging messages with other techies and micro-blogging. I a

From my start on Twitter, about 8 years ago, I have striven to keep my brand professional, mostly exchanging messages with other techies and micro-blogging. I also mix in some of my other interests, but above all I try to stay out of politics. This is hard to do when so many people I follow for professional networking are compelled to tweet and retweet really unhinged stuff. It's nothing but virtue signalling, almost never any content, mostly slogans, links to rants by thought leaders, and really hate-filled messages. I've broken my rule recently to tweet covid-19 data and science. I try to make these tweets especially factual, but I have allowed my own views, which have changed over time, come through. This has become a political arena I cannot stay out of. I've been insulted by people I previously respected in the professional community, just ad hominem attacks, no data, no science, really no objective content at all.