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3 min readJan 13, 2025

“Dear Mark,

Unfortunately, when you’ve claimed the word ‘meta’ from our lexicon and then you announce that you’ve done a bad job deciding what’s right so you’ve decided to stop deciding what’s right — but you get that decision wrong — , we’re out of words to describe the irony.”

Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube

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