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And given the role Trump appears to be giving Elon in the next admin, I would argue this book is required reading.
Hell yea brother. CHARACTER LIMIT just made Kirkus Reviews' best books of 2024! @kateconger.bsky.social and I are pumped.
Here's their full review from a few months ago.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...
Here's their full review from a few months ago.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...
![Engrossing, precise account of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (now X).
New York Times reporters Conger and Mac collaborate successfully on an ambitious narrative capturing how Musk engineered Twitter’s downfall, set against the vast financial stakes and dehumanizing aspects of the tech economy. The authors assert, “What he owns is no longer Twitter—not in name, but also neither in substance nor in spirit.” Their approach is sprawling, yet comprehensible, encompassing the role of Silicon Valley culture, political convulsions provoked by Trumpism and Covid-19, and the roles of many luckless Twitter veterans. They initially contrast the trajectories of Musk and Twitter’s enigmatic founder, Jack Dorsey, whose two tenures as CEO left him disillusioned following a prior takeover attempt. His replacement, Parag Agrawal, planned deep layoffs in response to Twitter’s delayed profitability but was sidetracked when mercurial Twitter addict Musk first teased a desire to join the company’s board, then engineered a buyout. For many employees, “Musk represented the ideal leader: a visionary technocrat guided by science and engineering who listened to his own instincts above all else.” But then Musk attempted to call off the deal, and the board filed a lawsuit holding him to his original offer, by which point “any optimism that Musk might be a good steward of the platform had long been erased.” Indeed, Musk engaged in mass layoffs, so that by 2023, “the company had become so lean that everything was on the verge of falling apart.” The authors conclude, “Musk had not bought Twitter to be a responsible steward [but] as an object of personal obsession.” Musk is portrayed as a complex, fragile, ultimately chaotic and malicious figure: “This was a man who chewed through people, using their loyalty to work them into the ground.”
Compelling fusion of business history and worrisome social narrative.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:emhyi4kljodgqlusdsopgfgd/bafkreichb2drnswintqzkw6p6udkkp4vu6zr5o4iajwoncwdlxk6ozw5o4@jpeg)
November 19, 2024 at 4:47 AM
And given the role Trump appears to be giving Elon in the next admin, I would argue this book is required reading.
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Okay, here we go. Welcome new followers. Too big for a single post or several. Hopefully this will clear some things up.
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FULL BLEED: I’LL COME RUNNING TO TIE YOUR SHOES
Hi there. My name is Matt Maxwell, actual living breathing human being and not a branded entity, not a registered trademark, not a talking head or wind-up monkey on a video channel. Picked up a bunch ...
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November 8, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Okay, here we go. Welcome new followers. Too big for a single post or several. Hopefully this will clear some things up.
www.highway62press.com/single-post/...
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Look I never play this card but I studied German politics and the rise of fascism and this IS THAT. We have arrived at the end game. Not hyperbole or exaggeration this is THE EXACT LANGUAGE. Anyone who has studied this recognizes it like a meteorologist seeing a gathering hurricane
Trump in Aurora: "The enemy from within. All the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That's a bigger enemy than China and Russia."
October 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Look I never play this card but I studied German politics and the rise of fascism and this IS THAT. We have arrived at the end game. Not hyperbole or exaggeration this is THE EXACT LANGUAGE. Anyone who has studied this recognizes it like a meteorologist seeing a gathering hurricane
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When you haven’t given him his treat within three minutes of arriving home
October 11, 2024 at 10:41 PM
When you haven’t given him his treat within three minutes of arriving home
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My poor handsome scrungly man. We’re on Day Two of many many meds for pancreatitis and he’s feeling SO much better but a little crusty from yucky medicine drool. ☹️
October 11, 2024 at 6:58 PM
My poor handsome scrungly man. We’re on Day Two of many many meds for pancreatitis and he’s feeling SO much better but a little crusty from yucky medicine drool. ☹️
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I made Zelenskyy smile.
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
October 11, 2024 at 7:40 PM
I made Zelenskyy smile.
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
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seems like a big story that the former president's ex-chairman of the joint chief's of staff thinks he's a fascist www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’
General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023
www.independent.co.uk
October 11, 2024 at 6:21 PM
seems like a big story that the former president's ex-chairman of the joint chief's of staff thinks he's a fascist www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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in the damn VOTERS PAMPHLET
October 10, 2024 at 3:24 AM
in the damn VOTERS PAMPHLET
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October 10, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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my basic view on the election right now is that Trump is losing but that does not mean he has lost. he can still catch up! but there’s no denying they are behind and critically the campaign knows it.
October 9, 2024 at 8:16 PM
my basic view on the election right now is that Trump is losing but that does not mean he has lost. he can still catch up! but there’s no denying they are behind and critically the campaign knows it.
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Can I just-
It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
“Ignorance is becoming socially acceptable.”
Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive — Rolling Stone
It’s their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online
apple.news
October 9, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Can I just-
It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
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ah yes, what is worse? passing a law through congress to add more seats to the supreme court — as per congress’ explicitly stated constitutional authority — or a violent coup to overturn the constitutional order?
October 5, 2024 at 2:06 AM
ah yes, what is worse? passing a law through congress to add more seats to the supreme court — as per congress’ explicitly stated constitutional authority — or a violent coup to overturn the constitutional order?
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my take in the times debate round up
October 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM
my take in the times debate round up
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Can tell this motherfucker is a true Thiel acolyte by how comfortable he is with just straight-up lying, a strategy Thiel often advocates for and frequently says is the appropriate way to attack your enemies.
October 2, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Can tell this motherfucker is a true Thiel acolyte by how comfortable he is with just straight-up lying, a strategy Thiel often advocates for and frequently says is the appropriate way to attack your enemies.
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Hello, Bluesky. We are so happy to be here with you all. If you don't know us, we are the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission -- a federal government agency responsible for making sure thousands of kinds of consumer products are safe.
October 1, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Hello, Bluesky. We are so happy to be here with you all. If you don't know us, we are the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission -- a federal government agency responsible for making sure thousands of kinds of consumer products are safe.
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When in the course of human events...
October 1, 2024 at 9:00 PM
When in the course of human events...
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This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became.
CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.
CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.
October 2, 2024 at 2:19 AM
This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became.
CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.
CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.
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ready for halloween
October 2, 2024 at 12:10 AM
ready for halloween
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conclusion from just giving a talk is that some people are extremely resistant to the idea that one party is currently the problem in american politics
October 1, 2024 at 10:10 PM
conclusion from just giving a talk is that some people are extremely resistant to the idea that one party is currently the problem in american politics
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I will remember this exchange for as long as I live.
October 2, 2024 at 3:04 AM
I will remember this exchange for as long as I live.
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People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
October 2, 2024 at 1:49 AM
People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
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"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."
Free speech hypocrisy at Wash U
These contradictory standards display what activists call “the Palestine exception.”
thehill.com
September 30, 2024 at 10:25 AM
"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."