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Or actually, yeah, they do more than seeing it. It's like they're seeing it plus something else, plus what they're adding, I guess. Now here's another theory. You know, affirmations, the idea of visualizing your goals. I've had good luck anecdotally, not scientifically speaking, but anecdotally it seems like when I can visualize what I want really clearly, the odds of it happening are so close to…
← Previous segment →known as tweeting, and then eventually I'm going to stop. I'm going to lose the formerly known as, and I'm just calling it tweeting again.
So I'm going to say, well, I was Xing today, formerly known as tweeting, and I'll start just saying formerly known as tweeting. I'll drop the X, and then I'll drop the formerly known as tweeting, and I'll be right back to tweeting. That's how I'm going to play it. Anybody with me? I'm not going to stop calling it tweeting, and I'm pretty sure we could call it whatever we want. You know, make it so. Make it so, as they say in Star Trek.
All right, I got a context note on a tweet. You know how Twitter will add community notes? Are there two things? Is there a community note and a context note, or are they really the same thing? Does anyone know if that's two different things or one thing? Let's see if anybody knows, because most of you haven't seen one or both, so how would you know?
It's the same thing, somebody says. So let me just give you an idea how this worked. I'm actually very happy with the community note, or maybe it's just reader-added context notes. I think it's working really well. It's imperfect. All things are imperfect. But I'll give you an example.
So here's where I got a context note put on my tweet. There was a clip of President Biden with an evil-looking grin on his face — subjectively speaking, according to me — muttering that he would look into Elon Musk and Twitter to see if there were any crimes there.
Now when I saw him muttering that he was going to look into Twitter to see if any crimes were there, I said to myself, what? Since when do you go looking for crimes? That's the scariest thing. So I tweeted something about it sounded like the plot of a bad movie where there's an alternative America that's been taken over by a dictator. Because listening to Biden say that he was going to look into Musk's purchase of Twitter just to see if there's anything wrong in terms of Homeland Security — why would there be? Why would there be a problem? Like what would make you even think you need to look? And wouldn't that apply to every citizen?
You know, my neighbor Bob, I'm not aware of any crimes he's committed, but when I talk to him I'm a little bit suspicious and I think maybe we should go overturn his finances and see if we got any crimes there. Nobody would stand for that. But there was the leader of the country standing there saying basically a dictator kind of a statement.
Now the context note was that this was an old video. Is that useful? Was it useful to me to know that this happened around the time of the transact
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ion? It did not happen this week. Is that a good community note? I'd say yes. I say yes, because that's good context. You need to know when stuff happened to understand it in its fullness. So good note. But it also went on to say that it was more about the question of the original buying of the company. Now that doesn't change my tweet, would you agree? It doesn't invalidate my tweet. It just tak…
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