By the way - since I saw this tweet floating around again, I wanted to follow up with some more thoughts. I had posted about it previously, but now that I've read the Montauk Project book, and have pretty much zero doubt that they're incorporating time travel and time loops into the storyline, I'll shed some further light on this cryptic tweet from ST writers (courtesy of our previous brainstorm with @gritstartar).
What you're most likely seeing above is a version of the 'cut-up method', popularised by William Burroughs. The tweet also, interestingly, references the 6th November 1983 date again (remember that this is the time vortex on one end of the time tunnel, the other vortex being 6th November 1959).
The cut-up method is a narrative technique that consists of in cutting up a written text, which is then rearranged to create a new text. A few examples are included below:
The cut-up method was also famously used by David Bowie to generate song lyrics for decades, for songs such as Moonage Daydream, Diamond Dogs, and Sweet Things. Bowie loved the cut-up technique so much, that, in the 90s, he developed a digitised application of the cut-up method for the Mac called the "the Verbasizer".
The reason that it's highly plausible that the above tweet does indeed refer to Burroughs' cut-up method, in the context of time manipulation, is the fact that the cut-up method is often used to 'scramble' words used to describe a present scenario, rearrange them and use it to predict the future.
"When you experiment with cut-ups over a period of time you find that some of the cut-ups and rearranged texts seem to refer to future events. I cut up an article written by John Paul Getty and got: it's a bad thing to sue your own father."
"This was a rearrangement and wasn't in the original text and a year later, one of his sons did sue him."
"When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
I'm willing to bet that the above tweet consisted of the writers room using words present in the original script, cutting up and scrambling them, to generate new scenarios, perhaps dialogue that we have not yet seen.
Again, if you look at the tweet and consider that it comes from the writers specifically, I don't think it's a stretch at all to consider that they're experimenting with a well-known narrative technique to create new text/scripts.
It also explains why they explicitly confirmed that that piece of text didn't relate to a ship per se.
I think it would be really cool to see callbacks to previous moments or scenes, but where, instead of the original dialogue, we see the 'cut-up' version, to expose the true intention behind the original words!
Just an observation, since I haven't really seen anyone come up with any other plausible hypotheses behind that tweet!
Bonus content of Maya Hawke, in June 2026, reading a book by William Burroughs, while in the company of video game designer Hideo Kojima:
