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Podcast: CANADALAND
Episode: An Elegy To Snark
Description: Every social media platform prizes something different. With Instagram, it’s aesthetics. On TikTok, it’s theatre-kid energy. And with Twitter, it was information and wit, conveyed via the written word.Jonathan Goldsbie is very good at Twitter. But Twitter is no longer Twitter.Every platform gradually withers — but since Elon Musk purchased it, the site’s ongoing transformation into the very worst version of itself has been by design.So what’s a person like Goldsbie to do, when confronted with the prospect of terminal, destructive decline? What happens when X spo...