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To forget is an ethical act

On and off for the last several years I’ve been manually curating my roughly 40,000 lifetime tweets. I recently finished, and in the process embarked on a

I’ve written before about how Twitter was a global chatroom and that meant there was a lot of coal to sift through to find any diamonds, but reflecting on 10 years of posts really highlighted how terrible everything and everyone—myself not excluded—was. Having used Twitter for ten years meant being around long enough to have fought for normalizing certain language in everyday speech only to see people suddenly allege it to be bad as literal fascism. It’s not without a sense of irony and guilt that I note that this happened on the heels of her being named the New York Times technology editor, a post that was vacant because its previous resident, Quinn Norton, was bullied out of a job by left wingers outraged at her ties to the infamous neo-Nazi hacker, Andrew Aurenheimer.

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