re: #11 Dopamine Fish

You’re right, it wasn’t a concern, because we’re the product. We, the Twitter user base - we’re what Musk paid that $44B for. Literally the whole point of buying Twitter was to have a captive audience of hundreds of millions of people that he could influence with his right-wing woo. No one involved in the transaction cares one whit about any of the actual people involved, except for the value we bring as users of the platform.

I support a couple of guys on Patreon who do very cute (and instructive!) little animations with snippets of Japanese conversations. The conversations are in Japanese, rendered with romaji, regular Japanese and English translation. They made a mistake on Instagram, a dumb mistake (ok, it was an animation of an onigiri quizzing a hamburger and using a bomb as a timer—the bomb was the mistake) and now Insta has heavily restricted their account. So they’re trying to figure out where to go from here, and as a result, they’re pushing their YouTube channel more. I guess I’ll advise them to stay away from Twitter. Here’s an example:

Japanese Keigo has gotten Easier! ✊