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Elon Musk
Twilight of the Heroes of Capitalism How Michael Lewis got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried.
Grimes And Elon Musk Are Suing Each Other The former couple have reportedly both filed lawsuits for parental rights over their three children.
Would Anyone Really Want to Pay for TikTok? Social-media companies are suddenly interested in subscriptions, but they may be misunderstanding their audience.
custody battle.exe
Oct. 3, 2023
Grimes Sues Elon Musk for Parental Rights She previously implied Musk would not let her see their youngest son.
what we know
Sept. 28, 2023
What X CEO Linda Yaccarino Claimed at the Code Conference In a tense interview, the head of Elon Musk’s social-media platform insisted everything was going great — and that she really was the CEO.
on with kara swisher
Sept. 18, 2023
Walter Isaacson on Almost All the Criticism of His Elon Musk Book Kara Swisher grills the author on his new biography and tries to get him to admit whether or not he actually likes Musk.
Elon Musk: Still Reproducing He and Grimes reportedly had a third child, Techno Mechanicus, last year.
x-tremely online
Sept. 11, 2023
stop the presses
Sept. 11, 2023
The Journalist and the Billionaire Walter Isaacson, schmoozy icon of the Old Media elite, has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all of those things.
Why Is Elon Musk Lashing Out Against the Anti-Defamation League? ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt on the X owner’s lawsuit threat and why he does not think Musk is an antisemite.
What We Know About Musk and Zuck’s Stupid (and Probably Pretend) Fight A full rundown of the unlikely but highly entertaining billionaire cage match.
trump indictment
Aug. 9, 2023
Twitter Fought Jack Smith’s Warrant for Trump’s Account Elon Musk’s company delayed the request for “data and records” related to Trump’s account, resulting in a $350,000 fine.
Twitter’s New X Is Officially a Bad Sign Neighbors and city building inspectors were not thrilled about Elon Musk’s giant new strobe light atop X-Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.
celebrity relations
July 28, 2023
Thomas Brodie-Sangster Found Love, Actually With Talulah Riley Naturally, Brodie-Sangster announced news of their engagement with a Hugh Grant quote.
All the Ways Elon Musk’s X Is Different From Twitter The branding is wildly inconsistent, but for now the biggest changes are happening only in Musk’s dreams.
rip twitter
July 23, 2023
screen time
July 13, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads Is an Early Success — Thanks to Elon Musk A hundred million users later, Meta’s timing with its Twitter knockoff looks both savvy and lucky.
Elon Musk Tries Forcing Twitter Users to Use Less Twitter Musk announced reading limits for all Twitter accounts over the weekend, blaming AI but punishing humans who still use Twitter.
Let These Clowns Fight If Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg want to brawl in a big metal cage, who am I to stop them?
small pleasures
June 25, 2023
Bluesky Reminds Me of When Social Media Wasn’t Terrible It’s refreshing to share inane thoughts in an extremely low-stakes atmosphere.
under new management
May 12, 2023
Elon Musk Is Almost Done Wreaking Havoc As Twitter’s CEO The billionaire has hired NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino to take the reins.
early and often
May 10, 2023
Elon Musk Is Wrong. Encouraging Voting Isn’t Nefarious. The “Zuckerbucks” theory Musk is spreading takes election denial from unsupported fraud claims to a more sinister hostility to voting itself.
objectively funny crimes
Apr. 30, 2023
screen time
Apr. 29, 2023
Can Bluesky Be Twitter Without Twitter? The buzz over the all-too-familiar new platform is as much about getting out as in.
the money game
Apr. 26, 2023
Musk’s Messy 4/20 Rocket Launch May Delay SpaceX for Months An apparent rush to hit that jokey deadline without some minor safety precautions has given regulators more power to slow the rocketeer’s roll.
Celebrities Love Losing Their Blue Checks Finally, they are freed from the shackles of Twitter verification.
screen time
Apr. 21, 2023
Twitter Frees Its Hostages Musk, who is trying to extort verified users to pay to keep their blue check, is actually giving them a precious gift: a chance at a clean exit.
Why Elon Musk’s SpaceX Doesn’t Mind That Its Rocket Blew Up This is not typically the reaction to a test failure. Then again, nothing about this is typical.
Elon Musk’s Most Powerful Rocket Ever Just Blew Up SpaceX’s uncrewed Starship barely made it past the launch tower before exploding.
getting around
Apr. 18, 2023
Elon Musk Could Ruin Your Commute (Again) The Twitter CEO’s planned API paywall could be bad news for the MTA’s service alerts.
Elon Musk Drives NPR Off Twitter in Latest Genius Move The outlet said it would stop posting on the site after being labeled “state-sponsored media.”
All the Companies Suspending Their Tweets As a result of the platform’s uncertainty, post Elon Musk.
Twitter Builds a Wall Elon Musk’s platform will take its cut or die trying.
Who Leaked Twitter’s Source Code? The company reportedly thinks the leak, posted to GitHub under the name “FreeSpeechEnthusiast,” came from one of its many former employees.
baby sailor mars
Mar. 27, 2023
Grimes Renames Her Second Child ? Y in Latin-alphabet-letter form or Why in word form.
on with kara swisher
Mar. 15, 2023
Walter Isaacson on Whether Elon Musk’s Ends Justify Being Mean Kara Swisher talks to the Musk biographer about what he observed shadowing the billionaire, how Musk compares with Steve Jobs, and much more.
Elon Musk Is Building a Montessori The Boring Company’s Texas preschool will educate the children of the hard-core.
fordlandia 2
Mar. 9, 2023
Elon Musk Wants His Own Town Now The Tesla founder is reportedly considering building a company town outside Austin for his employees to live, work, and never leave.
Twitter Continues to Deteriorate Slowly Another malfunction on Monday is the latest sign of the site’s unreliability under Elon Musk.
on with kara swisher
Mar. 6, 2023
Marc Benioff Regrets Not Buying Twitter Kara Swisher has a long talk with the embattled Salesforce CEO about activist investors, Elon Musk, drunk tweeting, and much more.
Twitter Is Dumping Most of Its New York Office There are possibly 4,000 square feet remaining.
twitter blues
Feb. 27, 2023
The Brutal Layoffs at Twitter Just Keep Coming As Elon Musk tweets in defense of the “Dilbert” guy, the company’s head count continues to shrink, and not even loyalists are safe.
Elon Musk Backs Dilbert Guy, Says the Media Is ‘Racist Against Whites’ The Twitter owner came to Scott Adams’s defense after the cartoonist’s racist rant led hundreds of newspapers to drop his long-running comic strip.
getting around
Feb. 24, 2023
A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master Plans Part 1 was a practical post-gasoline vision, Part Deux was more like rambly billionaire futurism, and Part 3 arrives next week.
getting around
Feb. 16, 2023
Did Tesla Just Admit Its Self-Driving Feature Is Dangerous? The company is issuing a 300,000-vehicle voluntary recall in the form of a mass software update.
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