Vibes in the Machine

Blink. Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Twitter increased character limits on tweets for verified users, a major bug took down most of the site. For a few, harrowing hours, with direct messages nuked, tens of millions of users who attempted to post were blocked from doing so, and provided with the following, brief message: “you are over the daily limit for sending tweets.” It was as if Elon Musk himself were telling our nation of the too-online to calm down. You’ve had a long year getting mad about a lot of loser bullshit, now it’s time go outside and live your life.