Count the bodies

It occurred to me that Twitter had really and truly gone kaput, not when it changed its name to X, not when having your replies featured became this thing that could be bought and was almost uniformly bought by the least insightful people imaginable, but when the body count tweet went viral.

I don’t know who Carl Benjamin is, or how he came to have 331k followers of whom 13 are people I follow. All I know is that he is the brain genius who paid for a blue checkmark that allows his musings to become what is called discourse.

I know about this man’s extremely profound thoughts about promiscuity and whether it’s different when men or women do it (spoiler: women be slutting) because a whole bunch of reasonable even dare I say sharp people I know from online were engaging with this. I too was engaging with this, briefly, despite having had like 3 online minutes this week. (Did I mention the daycare being off last week, followed by the long weekend?) Congratulations, Mr. Musk, you did it, you made a stupid place that much more so.