Over the last two days, I've been on public transport a lot and really didn't have anything better to do, so I started to browse Twitter for the first time in months.

Now that I have enough distance to it, two things are immediately obvious about that place: (1) it's immense orders of magnitudes more intellectually and creatively stimulating than Telegram or any other place on the internet. One banger is chasing the other and all the most interesting people on the planet feed you with their hottest takes for free. If you have a name or need to be public facing, there is no alternative at all; (2) to someone with my disposition of mind, it's a heroin needle straight into the eyeballs. Once you start browsing, and especially once you jump into the fray yourself, you find yourself glued to some fucking screen every free minute of the day.

Call it lack of impulse control, but the addiction is by design, and once you get pulled in by the intellectual stimulation and the bangers, you will also drown in a shit river of slop, white noise and psyops. It really is a bargain you make with the devil.