The myth of Musk has become increasingly tattered over recent years. He’s no MoTU, not a world-spanning genius uniquely able to bend technology to his will. As the Twitter debacle has made obvious, he’s no more than an ordinarily clever guy who parlayed a family apartheid fortune and some good timing into early Silicon Valley …
Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
In Which Reconstruction Ends For The Second Time
This wasn’t unexpected, but it’s still a gut-punch: The US Supreme Court on Thursday banned the consideration of race in college admissions, overruling nearly half a century of precedents and deprivingmany universities of a tool they say is essential for keeping their campuses diverse. Elements of the until-today model of holistic admissions have a very …
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Ummm…What?
Tucker’s an ex-Fox. There are zero details yet about who did what to whom: did Murdoch say to Carlson, “you’re fired?” Did Carlson say “you can’t fire me, I quit?” Did some other billionaire offer the right’s masculinity maven yet more cash? Is there something about to drop that would have compelled Tucker “to spend …
Dominion and Fox Settle…
Video at 11.* I’m disappointed on multiple levels–I wanted to see Rupert on the stand being served his own intestines via a cross examination for the ages. I wanted to see F**ker Carlson allowed to spin on a spit over coals for hours. I wanted a jury award so large only scientific notation could handle …
He Was Never Going to Buy It
I’m wondering how serious the bids are to unseat Elon at Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter if the company does not provide more information on how it calculates the number of fake accounts. In a letter delivered to Twitter on Monday and filed …