No. 239: ELON MUSK, WILLIAM SHATNER, CHARLIE BROWN, JAMES GARNER, DONAL LOGUE & A CAST OF BILLIONS / Why I'm not deleting my X account, even though I don't use it.
In lieu of a body of work, a canon or some such, you want to at least leave a trail of breadcrumbs & a batch of fingerprints. These are mine left over from Twitter before its purchase & poisoning.
I haven’t looked at Twitter/X more than once weekly this year. I looked back this morning to check and it confirmed what I thought—I’ve posted six tweets since July. That used to be a good day on the outlet back in the day, for the decade before Elon snapped it up. Nowadays I only check it on Friday mornings because at 1 p.m. I’ll chat on my friend Jeff Sammut’s show on Canada Talks, the Sirius network. If you’re opening the show, you gotta know who’s headlining.1
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