[Twitter enables direct exchange between thoughts, independent of the people.]
[Twitter and TikTok enable content threads.]
[When me and the person I know are conversing on twitter, the third person that doesn't know is is watching. A performance for our shared mutuals.]
[We went from an oral culture where everything disappears, to a written culture, and now as text is less necessary we are moving toward an oral culture where everything is permanent.]
[People LARPing doing their day job in the real world to earn the money that enables them to participate in their imagined world, like Burning Man.]
[People pretending that they want things in public because they think other people want them is the source of many problems.]
[Lying is more cognitively demanding, you actually burn more sugar.]
[Every child is like a traveller arriving from somewhere else.]
[How to encourage a group to feel the camaraderie of 'we did it'?]