Noah Smith, voice of the technarchy, on the end of X.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-age-of-twitter-is-finally-ending

“many of the smartest users have left the platform, so that replies are dominated by activists, trolls, and bored people tossing off rote statements”

More concrete data than I usually see. I wonder if Smith is going to break with Musk. If Noah is abandoning X it’s officially dead.