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What strikes me most is the number of "deleted tweets" and even more so, of "suspended accounts", which leaves quoted retweets (I seldom "only retweet") with no context. I have been increasingly annoyed by the censorship on Twitter since they but it is my understanding that recent developments might be changing that <wz tagtotip="birdfreed">(?!)</wz><span id="birdfreed" width=400px><center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_222220.png|400px]]</wz></center></span>. I should, however, make a habit of <wz tagtotip=keepingarecord width=500px>keeping a record</wz><span id="keepingarecord">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_213214.png|500px]]</span> of the material archived, and not trusting the platform which is | What strikes me most is the number of "deleted tweets" and even more so, of "suspended accounts", which leaves quoted retweets (I seldom "only retweet") with no context. I have been increasingly annoyed by the censorship on Twitter since they but it is my understanding that recent developments might be changing that <wz tagtotip="birdfreed">(?!)</wz><span id="birdfreed" width=400px><center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_222220.png|400px]]</wz></center></span>. I should, however, make a habit of <wz tagtotip=keepingarecord width=500px>keeping a record</wz><span id="keepingarecord">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_213214.png|500px]]</span> of the material archived, and not trusting the platform which is basically rewriting the past, with its cherry picking of what can survive and what cannot. A real scandal. | ||
To look on the brighter side of things, however, I find these sporadic memories preciously recorded in this random sampling timeline. Although it always feel a bit uncanny at the time of posting them, this makes for a great collection year afters, provided they won't be lost, dumped of confiscated by the host. I like a lot, in particular, to be reading again the tributes, written on the spot, to people who left us as our life carries on. That resonates differently, but no less deeply, years after. I'll probably keep tweeting, hoping not to attract too many followers, to retain as much as possible a feeling that I can talk truly to my future self without risking to annoy or shock the nosy people who had the misguided idea to follow me. | |||
<center><wz tip="I was changing office. Also announcing our 'Polariton and Jaynes-Cummings Blockade' Wolfram demonstration.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_203729.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="I was changing office. Also announcing our 'Polariton and Jaynes-Cummings Blockade' Wolfram demonstration.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_203729.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="In the new office. It took that much time to make the change.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_203947.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="In the new office. It took that much time to make the change.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_203947.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="A big tragedy and a milestone of the West decadence: the rapture of Assange from his Ecuadorian asylum in London. As I write, his situation is still yet not settled.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204118.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="A big tragedy and a milestone of the West decadence: the rapture of Assange from his Ecuadorian asylum in London. As I write, his situation is still yet not settled.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204118.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204348.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Tribute to Nilda Fernandez on the day he passed away. Probably one of the most underappreciated artists of his generation, gone too young, but in time for his sensibility to be spared the dystopia that was to follow.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204348.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204447.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Another tribute, this time to an artist expressing himself in a completly different genre: theoretical physics.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204447.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204605.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Camilo's thesis and his 'Bosom sampling'.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204605.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204712.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Would I have remembered that Bennett was in Russia for the first time at the occasion of this talk, if I had not recorded the fact in a tweet? The talk was truly amazing, that wasn't a formula to fill up some text, which was not needed with the previous, also amazing, revelation. I started to understand the black hole paradox on this occasion.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204712.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204801.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="One of the few interesting applications of AI that I have seen (along with chess). Already at this time, people were discouraged to use it, not to feed Russia with sensible data!">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204801.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204902.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="One of these things we do whenever a pattern manifests itself in a timestamp.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204902.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204936.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="First day of school in England for Julia, walking along the locks to get there. We would race against the coots.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_204936.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205611.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Camilo becoming a doctor, under the presidency of a legend of the field: Gerard Nienhuis.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205611.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205732.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Our visit of Woolsthorpe. The window behind is that of Newton's bedroom.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205732.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205812.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Still not published at the time of writing. But at least with some serious progress.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205812.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205958.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="A tribute to Max von Sydow. The link is to a fascinating interview where he recounted (unwillingly) how he got signs from a deceased Ingmar Bergman who had promised him, while shooting the Seventh Seal, that he would contact him when he'd be dead, to prove him the existence of an afterlife.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_205958.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210147.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="The beginning of covid.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210147.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210251.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="It was interesting indeed to follow what became of him (banished). The story has not yet fully resolved yet.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210251.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210326.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Tribute to Asterix, more than to Uderzo, who died on this day. The drawings have always been genius. The magic and quality of the work however changed after Goscinny, who was more a mother to the Gauls than Uderzo was a father.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210326.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210539.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="The agony of Assange throughout the years.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210539.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210708.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Our game of ticking the days off until the start of a new life.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210708.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210759.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Nine days on this occasion.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210759.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210844.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="And on the tenth day...">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_210844.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211317.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Where I spent most of the confinement. With coffee and a little daughter becoming older at the speed of life.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211317.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211427.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Tribute to Quino. I would use one of his cartoons as the opening of my epistemology lectures from this day onward.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_230755.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211534.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="PLMCN20. It was scheduled to happen in Clermont and its virtual substitute will remain one of my great deceptions of the confinement. A unique celebration was turned into a zoom meeting.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211427.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211735.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Our times are scarier than those of our elders. Just we don't realize it.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211534.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_212136.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Not a tribute, but a sore contemplation, on the day of Giscard d'Estaing passing away.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_211735.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_212657.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="Tribute to Belmondo. All the more a giant that France has since become a dwarf.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_212136.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_213022.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="The beginning of the Ukrainian—very much ongoing—situation. Clearly a highly sensitive business from day one.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_212657.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_213344.png|400px]]</wz></center> | <center><wz tip="My outcry at consensus, conformism and wokeness.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_213022.png|400px]]</wz></center> | ||
<center><wz tip="Ending once more, like in my last compilation, with Bernanos, who remains of painful topicality. Here in a second reading of his take on atrocities during, one would like to write, the Spanish civil war, but, really, during any severe conflict afflicting any population.">[[File:Screenshot_20221031_213344.png|400px]]</wz></center> | |||
Revision as of 23:31, 31 October 2022
My Scheherazadean tribute to twitter became timely again with another 1001 tweets written since those that I could, on the previous occasion, only trace back down to 2014. This time, a higher engagement with the platform allows me to overlap with the online record that is, at the time of writing, kept up to 15 March (2017) (a tweet commenting "It does not need to be imagined, it needs to be written down."). All tweets actually seem to remain accessible, if they are referenced. These are, for instance, my first and [my second tweet] and my third one, one year and a half later. Follows below a selection among the last thousand or so written since then.
What strikes me most is the number of "deleted tweets" and even more so, of "suspended accounts", which leaves quoted retweets (I seldom "only retweet") with no context. I have been increasingly annoyed by the censorship on Twitter since they but it is my understanding that recent developments might be changing that (?!)
. I should, however, make a habit of keeping a record
of the material archived, and not trusting the platform which is basically rewriting the past, with its cherry picking of what can survive and what cannot. A real scandal.
To look on the brighter side of things, however, I find these sporadic memories preciously recorded in this random sampling timeline. Although it always feel a bit uncanny at the time of posting them, this makes for a great collection year afters, provided they won't be lost, dumped of confiscated by the host. I like a lot, in particular, to be reading again the tributes, written on the spot, to people who left us as our life carries on. That resonates differently, but no less deeply, years after. I'll probably keep tweeting, hoping not to attract too many followers, to retain as much as possible a feeling that I can talk truly to my future self without risking to annoy or shock the nosy people who had the misguided idea to follow me.
