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Re:What Is Social Cooling? by Veen on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:31AM (#25760314)
Last year's media scrutiny of politicians' bookshelves undermines your point a little.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/michael-gove-an...

Re:What Is Social Cooling? by inglor_cz on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:43AM (#25760383)
Interesting that they consider Ayn Rand alarming enough to name her right next to David Irving, a notorious Holocaust denier, or, more precisely, diminisher.

Edit: I, too, have one book by David Irving in my bookcase - among 900 others. I read it, I found his way of twisting of the sources disturbing, but I am not going to burn it in the name of Love and Peace. But unfortunately I can see this being used against me in a court of Twitter.

Re:What Is Social Cooling? by theshrike79 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:29AM (#25760763)
The Holy and Unerring Court of Twitter is the reason I've got a cron job deleting my old tweets automatically.

I've seen people in more prominent positions than me being badly burned by a 10 year old tweet. I see no point in saving stuff I've said 6 months or a year ago. If it's something worthwhile, I'll make a blog post out of it and store the markdown file in git.

Re:What Is Social Cooling? by alexilliamson on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:15AM (#25762943)
Then why tweet at all in the first place?