You know, there’s a world out there beyond the prison. It has no locks and no fences. You can just choose to go outside, right now; go for a hike, see some trees, watch a bird. There is nothing stopping you from never visiting the prison or the bar ever again.

I used to go to that bar a lot. When it became clear it was becoming a Nazi bar, and the owner saw that as a feature, not a bug, I stopped. Describing it as a network prison seems to imply that staying there isn't just a choice like anything else. Yes, it's a choice with consequences, potentially very negative ones, but these things often are. If it were always easier to be moral than amoral, we wouldn't be in this mess.

The election in the US is Nov 3, the first Tuesday of the month

That is this next Tuesday, four days from now.

example: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/helpful-information/...

In what way will your life change if you never access twitter again?

People on Twitter really overblow it's importance, but the vast majority of humans do not use it. Things posted there really only matter to other Twitter users, and are inconsequential in the real world.

I mean, the rest of us just stopped going there. The interesting tech discussions long since left twitter, and if you are jonesing for a fix there is always bluesky or mastodon

You clearly have not been on in a while, such discussions have returned.

For example just yesterday there was a tweet by Richard Sutton.

Even Zuckerberg tweets.

> Even Zuckerberg tweets.

Having worked for the man some time ago, I'm pretty sure a bowl of oatmeal has more insightful things to say

That may be the case.

But misses the point. The guy owns his own Twitter competitor, yet has to go there if he wishes to have any influence.

It's where influential folks post. Whether you like it or not.

> It's where influential folks post. Whether you like it or not.

It's where a bunch of rich (and often very right-leaning) assholes post. I'm not clear that correlates with "influential" outside of very specific circles - certainly all the thinkers and doers I used to follow on twitter left long since.

You clearly have not been on in a while.

Richard Sutton is on this great social network https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Sutton,+...

What is so important on xitter? I've ended up following a link there at most a small handful of times in the last 5-10 years. I can't think of anything I would miss if it shut down tomorrow.