The current shitshow may be tiresome to read about, and I'm just as sick of the new boss as anybody, but it's definitely important news, and it's definitely tech-related.
Sorry you have to live in this timeline. I'm sorry any of us have to live here.
There are other places to discuss the former. The initial stories about the Twitter acquisition arguably fell into the latter category, but the constant rumor-mongering, ad-hominem attacks, and ideological battles no longer do.
What is it you think we do, then?
Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people?
Separating signal from noise?
Whatever happens at Twitter you cannot change it, and now with it being private you can’t even bet on the outcome.
So maybe it’s best to just ignore and let the actors do whatever they want to do..
Isn’t the opposite usually held to be the case? The groups you would typically associate with impractical learning for its own sake (university professors, public intellectuals, novelists, etc) are seen as smart cookies