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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 • 1 

Hilariously (sadly? regretfully?), since I’ve been writing online for public audiences since about 1997, I’ve been thinking about the art of posting, community building, and who benefits and how, for a very long time. All of this (https://blog.ayjay.org/the-three-paths-of-micro-blog/) sounds about right, specifically: “…it will — by design — never be a place for you to monetize your brand, troll, shitpost, or become an influencer. But hey, there are plenty of other platforms better suited for that kind of thing.

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Very excited for the movie

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 • 1 

Finished reading: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 📚 “For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression. “Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed dread of the state—did police departments emerge in the United States.”

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