{"id":2306,"date":"2022-04-25T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:57:12","slug":"twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m keeping in abeyance any decision I might make on maintaining my presence on Twitter. I&#8217;ve been tweeting away since 2008, though I have never been especially prolific. (That said, this platform completely redefined &#8220;prolific&#8221;!) The place had a few good years &#8211; people were helpful and tended, on balance, to be interesting &#8211; before it became the dreadful scene we have today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve bored witless the people I love with my complaints about Elon Musk, so I shall forbear here, dear reader (just don&#8217;t bring up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/search?q=self-driving+cars\">the topic of self-driving cars<\/a>!). I don&#8217;t expect he will make Twitter better. I can see how he might make it worse, though: Bringing back the 45th president would be the main way, probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m keeping in abeyance any decision I might make on maintaining my presence on Twitter. I&#8217;ve been tweeting away since 2008, though I have never been especially prolific. (That said, this platform completely redefined &#8220;prolific&#8221;!) The place had a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}