When I launched my pseudonymous writing career in the summer of 2023, one of the things I was most looking forward to was creating my Twitter account and interacting with other interesting writers and intellectuals on the platform.
I’d been lurking for years.
For all of its faults, Twitter has historically been a place where you could reliably encounter some incredibly interesting people and ideas. I’ve often found myself bookmarking tweets because I’ve stumbled upon a genuinely novel concept that I’ve never seen represented elsewhere—schizoid gems like “psycho-security” in the context of memetic defense against state-sponsored psychological operations. I’ll often bookmark positive tweets about novels which similarly deviate from the aesthetic consensus in the world of traditional publishing.
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