Chris Walton

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

In this time of social distancing, I am replacing curly quotes—so affectionate, so cuddly—with sharp-elbowed French guillemets with required spaces before and after. ”Too close.” « Just right. »

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@aldaily I was a young American Scholar subscriber in the mid-'90s. Epstein is wrong to say he published nothing on race during his tenure: Has he forgotten Dinesh D'Souza's 1995 essay? Having heard that blowhard speak, I was astonished to find his work in a magazine I admired.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@samirakmehta Thanks, Samira! I was honored to work on this with you.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@CRBClassical That symphony by Louis Théodore Gouvy (No. 4) was a fantastic surprise! I don't think I've heard anything by him before, and it was wonderful. Thank you.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Tweet about tweeters who tweet or say nothing. Got it. https://t.co/nEjkLoWQPr

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@janecoaston I've really enjoyed the show and thank you for bringing together such interesting conversation partners.

[NYTimesGuild @NYTimesGuild]

If @NYTimesGuild members don't have a deal soon, we’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Of course this is my most popular tweet. Au revoir!

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@lillydancyger @DanielJCamacho I figured out how to do just this! On this site, https://t.co/9zb7Hb62fv, you can select to export the people you're following. The spreadsheet it gives you includes not just the Twitter handles but also the users' names, which Twitter's own export doesn't provide.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Thanks to @CRBClassical last year, I discovered Boston Cello Quartet's wonderful "Latin Project" album—but I made a fateful mistake: I didn't buy the album. And now it has vanished from the streaming services, and CDs aren't available. I'm depending on you, now, radio!

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Whoa. Someone stole conductor Benjamin Zander's car, which contained his marked-up scores of works the Boston Philharmonic is performing this weekend. The car has been recovered—but not the scores. https://t.co/61yQ4M1Bxt

[Boston Philharmonic @bosphil]

STOLEN: email [email protected] or call 617-236-0999 if found. @BenjaminZander's cherished marked up musical scores (2 Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 1 w/cover & 1 w/out + 1 spiralbound 11x17 Strauss Ein Heldenleben score w/cardboard covers), presumed to be in Allston-Brighton area.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@joshua_eaton Uh oh

[Tom Coates @tomcoates]

This is an absolutely extraordinary statement by someone with significant influence and oversight in the privacy team at Twitter. It states outright that Musk’s moves are dangerous to dissidents and human rights activists and legally to Twitter’s own engineers.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

If you decide to decamp to Mastodon, put your account name in your Twitter bio or pinned tweet—because here's a tool that will go through all the accounts you follow to find their Mastodon/Fediverse accounts for you!

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Not-quite-parody options for your consideration: One Lumsk. Lonem Usk. Skelon Mum. Esklonum. Memu Skon. Melon SKU. Skul Nome. Elom Nusk. Elmo Nuks. Loneskum. Enul Moks. Monskule.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@bitb @martin_kelley Check this out, ye of the olden blogosphere and the newer Mastodon era: People can follow WordPress blogs as if they're any other kind of Mastodon account: https://t.co/EUrAVmTz2R

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Thanks to https://t.co/9zb7Hb62fv, I've exported a list of the people I follow on Twitter. Now I just have to prioritize them and figure out where they and their cohort have moved the conversations I've enjoyed following here.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@bitb I'll almost certainly create a Mastodon account to follow the academics who move over there. If I decide I have something to say, I'll find a way to get the word out—but I don't have an audience I intend to take with me somewhere.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

@lillydancyger @DanielJCamacho I figured out how to do just this! On this site, https://t.co/9zb7Hb62fv, you can select to export the people you're following. The spreadsheet it gives you includes not just the Twitter handles but also the users' names, which Twitter's own export doesn't provide.

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

i've always wanted an easy way to know who spent $8 this month on blue check marks so thanks elon

for $10 a month please offer gold check marks so i know who is even more verified

[Chris Walton @Philocrites]

Despite the fact that, as Ryan Broderick observed, "[Twitter] users both hate using it and also hate each other," there are a whole bunch of you I've learned a lot from and many I've come to admire. I wish I could keep lurking just for your conversations, but somewhere else.