Dark Side of Taleb's Twitter
Obscure characters
Taleb is the festival messiah you’d follow into a river until the drugs wore off.
Taleb created a community on Twitter with some real characters. I picked the most obscure ones. As any community, it has had its own ups and downs, and at some point it seemed it was developing on its own. Nassim does not like when someone mentions “Taleb’s Twitter”, yet the fact is there are lots of accounts under his influence, despite sometimes they part ways with him and start criticizing.
Let’s fire up some spotlights.
Ladies first.
Extrachelle
Extrachelle runs an semi-anonymous and sometimes restricted account with focus on linguistics, history, and Mediterranean culture. Interesting that her background is mining engineering. She split with Taleb over Covid vaccine topic.
You would not want to change a deep and genuine yet sometimes scandalous content from Taleb for anonymous, third-grade, obsessed account of “Francois Benoux”, who became popular also because of Taleb. Well, somehow she did.
Anyway, she is fun to read when she writes.
Trishank
Trishank is a loyal follower of Taleb, at least so far. One of those guys who has played a key grim role in the Taleb’s Twitter community:
One episode is quite interesting, when he attacked Daniel Vassallo.
Finally, Trishank apologized, but we suspect just because Taleb told him to do so.
In this episode, he attacks Joe Norman, and that was obviously blessed by Taleb.
Trishank, as many on Taleb’s Twitter, tries to find some rationality by elaborating on morale but every time it comes out rather ugly.
And, of course, ingratitude is a favorite topic, just to please the boss.
GuruAnaerobic
Again, split with Taleb by now, but forever bonded. Size the quality of his jokes.
Indeed, what kind of humor is this?
Good Guys Under Influence
There are some good guys under influence:
Daniel Vassallo (is the only one about whom we cannot say an obscure character):
Paul Portesi:
They have their own loose nuts, but in general are interesting to follow.
Master Class for Sycophants
This one below can be used as a template to properly respond to Professor’s jokes:
But the most dangerous sycophants are those who are practically provocateurs:
Stay away from them.
Epilogue
In the end we have reduced the number of characters, because people do mistakes sometimes, so we overlook, forgive, and forget.