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Bill Keller - The Twitter Trap
- joshu 15y agosomewhere between "damn kids, get off my lawn" and "things were better in my day" i have noticed that whenever i speak about anything, anywhere, there's some guy who always gets up and asks "what if that's bad or wrong?" this guy just happens to have access to a major bully pulpit.
- cafard 15y agoWhen Twitter was first out, I had a look at two philosophers known for concision. Quite a lot of the entries in Spinoza's _Ethics_ fit into 140 characters, particularly in the original Latin. Heraclitus was a bit harder to find, but I believe quite a lot of his sayings will also. Wittgenstein did not occur to me then; quite a few of the entries in the Tractatus are well under 140 characters, German or English. I briefly considered writing a script to tweet snippets of Spinoza, but decided I had better things to do.