Coinbase saying the quiet bit out loud, you love to see it https://t.co/9hPhwO4SiR — Sean Tuffy (@SMTuffy) August 6, 2023 At least when the Beanie Babies bubble burst, a lot of shelters and afterschool programs were able to give cute stuffed toys to kids who appreciated them. Try doing *that* on the blockchain… crypto guys …
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Late Night Open Thread: Billionaire Cage Match (Speaking of Submersibles…)
Zuck is finally gonna run for President by beating up Elon Musk https://t.co/nbePrHdg32 — River_Tam (@RiverTamYDN) June 22, 2023 Okay, this is unlikely to actually happen — Elon’s money guys will pay Zuckerberg’s mixed-martial-arts trainers to abduct Musk into a luxury prison in Qatar, if necessary — but until I read this, I didn’t imagine …
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Quickie Muskrat Gigging.
Musk is, of course, the gift that keeps on giving. Today’s Twitter outage is a case study in why most tech companies don’t fire most of their engineers in one go. But there was another story that caught my eye, as an illustration of how little Musk-ish MoTUs grasp normal human emotion–despite what I’m sure …
Open Thread: Revanchist Fantasies of A ‘Revenge Divorce’
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) I am a patriot, which is why I intend to drag conservatives into the 21st century whether they like it or not https://t.co/Xm90feLQ0s — chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) February 20, 2023 Many, many people have pointed out that this idea was field-tested in the 1860s, and failed …
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Late Night Open Thread: Getting Done, By Brexit
The natural endpoint of modern ‘Conservative’ thought: with on point marketing like this who can doubt that the Tory Party can climb out of that -25 point polling hole https://t.co/551pd8oayV — James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) January 31, 2023 Palmer is a British expat, and the Deputy editor at ForeignPolicy… look I have hopes for Ukraine but …
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Late Night Hate-Reads Open Thread: Apartheid Princeling Is Having A Bad 2023
Elon Musk claimed in a 2018 tweet that he had lined up the financing to pay for a $72 billion buyout of Tesla, but it never materialized. Now Musk will have to explain his actions under oath in federal court. The trial begins Tuesday with jury selection. https://t.co/F6WuLdyrq4 — The Associated Press (@AP) January 16, …
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Late Night Open Thread: New (Vaporware) Phone Will Be Called the Tesla Pique
Hello World, first photo of the new "Tesla Phone", hotter than the best model from Apple . . . ?? ?? ?? pic.twitter.com/vMqfbA2nrv — Marko Silberhand (@MarkoSilberhand) November 28, 2022 Let nobody deny Elon Musk is an innovator. Here he has taken the popular alt-right "free speech means you have to let me on your …
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