In short, it’s hard to imagine how Trump could have had a worse month-long run. Ordinarily one might say, as a way of exaggerating to emphasize the point, that it only could have been worse if he had had dinner with a Nazi — but, of course, he did that, too.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/14/trump-2024-announcement-mistake-00073902

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Here's the video of the cold war era type exchange of Brittney Griner for Victor Bout on an Abu Dhabi airstrip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkzBcGUs4w&t=32s

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Twitter is shutting down Chinese activists' accounts. Tesla makes most of its profits from its China subsidiary. These two facts are totally unrelated

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitter-elon-musk-china-dissidents-1234643726/

An interesting (and harrowing) account of someone's last few days working at Twitter.
https://www.askamanager.org/2022/12/update-i-work-at-twitter-what-do-i-do.html

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It is unclear what Musk means by this statement. Journalist Mike Masnick, who runs the website Techdirt, described it as "How to get your $44 billion mid-life crisis toy named in lots of lawsuits."

https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/

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"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped." -- Sam Levenson

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“The tech industry is a china shop full of bulls...in the sense that many of its leaders have no fucking clue what they’re doing.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-twitter-fiasco-is-the-twilight-of-the-tech-bro

Will Wheaton describes Elon in no uncertain terms

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GroupM, the world's biggest media buyer, is warning marketers that until Twitter addresses a slew of problems impacting content moderation, it remains a "high risk" media buy, per Digiday.
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/22/twitter-tech-glitches-staffers-depart-elon-musk

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I know that I've had enough coffee when I can thread the needle on a running sewing machine