The lost thread

The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you.

The lost thread April 26, 2022 Tomb Chapel of Raemkai, False Door on West Wall, ca. 2446–2389 B.C. An indus­tri­alist might soon pur­chase Twitter, Inc. His sub­stan­tial suc­cess launching reusable space­craft does nothing to pre­pare him for the chal­lenge of building social spaces. The latter calls on every lib­eral art at once, while the former is just rocket science. Arguing about the future of Twitter is a loser’s game; a dead end. The plat­form’s only con­clu­sion can be abandonment: an overdue MySpace-ification. Fea­tures come and

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