I Can’t Do this Any More

I have tried to delete Twitter many, many times over the years, but I think this is the last straw. Every single day, I can see the following:

• Our federal and state governments are utterly, shamelessly corrupt, and don’t even get me started on other world governments…
• Privacy was a lost cause decades ago, and yet we still pretend there’s any left for anyone except the 1%
• The criminal justice system has become 3-tiered: people at the top and bottom get away with l.i.t.e.r.a.l murder, and only the “middle class” gets punished
• My entire 40 year career is at very real risk of being cannibalized by LLM’s
• LLM’s are cannibalizing the entire world’s supply of chips and compute and financial investment
• The open source world is getting taken over by the woke mob in real time
• Every consumer-facing product and service is rapidly getting both more expensive and cheapened at the same time, and now requires an account with a subscription and tracking to even use
• Housing has become almost completely inaccessible to people below the age of 40, and the trend is worsening, as “private equity” is moving down the chain into apartments and even mobile home parks
• “Dating” apps have utterly destroyed personal relationships, and the answer for many is just to get on social media and rant about it, but not stop engaging with them
• Microsoft has destabilized the entire gaming economy (which is bigger than movies now) with it’s boneheaded moves over the past few years
• Apple keeps angling towards a unification of macOS and iOS (which they promised in 2018 they would never do), making a move back to Linux on the desktop attractive (but see the point about it all going woke)
• Failing service-oriented businesses (like Uber) are now paying people pennies to record themselves doing menial tasks to capture training data to program the bots to take over doing these jobs
• The birthrate has dropped below replacement levels for both the West and the East, and while this used to keep the billionaires awake at night, AI has become their hope, and that’s why all the world’s resources are being devoted to it now

In short, there’s a figurative war going on against liberty and anything that enables it, including voting for a non-establishment candidate, general-purpose computing, and a middle-class income. They have also come for any and all channels of information you used to stay informed, and any and all entertainment you might have used to escape the horrors. We are being programmed from both ends. There is no escape. There is no relief.

Between the government overreach, the surveillance built into every product, the restrictions and eventual deprecation of cash, and the burgeoning requirement for a verified ID to do anything (except vote, apparently), and the doomsday scenario slowly building to an inescapable conflagration in the Middle East, the world is crawling inexorably towards the events described in The Revelation, while at the same time pretending that it’s not happening exactly as prophesied.

Every page of Twitter’s feed angers, upsets, and defeats my spirit, and I just can’t take it anymore. And I can’t do anything about any of this but be frustrated and disappointed. Even just replying is like spitting in the wind, because someone without a “name” doesn’t exist on the platform, not even if you pay. So I can’t even register my dissatisfaction about what I’m reading.

It’s all so utterly emasculating, humiliating, and depressing. The promise of a de-wokified Twitter was that it would become an egalitarian voice against power. In response, “power” has made moves which prove that they will not be held accountable, no matter how much is spoken about their misdeeds, their misplaced loyalties, and their greed. I don’t believe Musk thought this is where it would wind up in a couple of years, but I’m certain that “power” is absolutely delighted with the results, and that’s why no one is screaming about how Twitter needs to be taken away from him anymore.