@darius Substack is a terrible company*, and/but they are very clever to identify that one of the big attractions of Twitter was that any random person† could be plucked from obscurity by the attention of an important person. That's a real source of voltage! (Just not here.)

* I moved my free covid newsletter to them when the previous host failed out and will not be moving it because please god I cannot write it long enough to make it worth moving

† would-be media commentator