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critic of tech futures | host @techwontsaveus | author, “road to nowhere”: | he/they | subscribe to my newsletter:

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Paris Marx

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The AI boom requires massive data centers that consume enormous amounts of water and energy. Tech CEOs have plans for hundreds more, but activists are fighting back to protect their communities and force us to ask who benefits from Silicon Valley’s future.

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AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.

Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.

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Billionaires gained $3.9 trillion and workers lost $3.7 trillion… but that must just be a coincidence 🙃

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In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as , but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel. Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea. Read more:

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someone needs to write something on why so many people seem to have completely lost their minds

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2 years

our society needs to make wealthy people scared to talk about conspicuous consumption like this

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2 years

I’m sorry, but this fucking sucks. There’s way too much distraction in these cars with screens everywhere, and having Apple encouraging it with CarPlay is so irresponsible. It actually makes me mad that regulators aren’t stepping in to do something about this.

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It’s been a decade and Elon Musk is still pushing Hyperloop fantasies to dampen support for high-speed rail, an actually existing solution that works perfectly well in many countries around the world.

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Elon Musk donated $5.7 billion at the end of 2021, but kept the recipient a secret. New reporting shows the money went to his personal charity, meaning he didn’t actually lose control over it — but it did net him a $4.6 billion tax break. The man is a leech on society.

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2 years

the far-right’s urban, sustainable dystopias always sound live pretty great places to live

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People are struggling to afford food and homes, but at least it’s an “amazing year for rich people”

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Guardian news

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Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’

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2 years

Elon Musk said his tunnels would fix traffic congestion, but even his shitty Las Vegas tunnel is already getting backed up. Who could’ve predicted this?! 🙃

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Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t. Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas and eventually got him ousted as CEO.

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2 years

He finally came out and said it. Climate change isn’t perceived to be an existential risk to the wealthy; they feel they can buy their way out of its worst impacts, and don’t care about what it means for everyone else. That’s why they push false solutions over real action.

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Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming

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visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing

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When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

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1 year

Probably a good time to remind everyone that regardless of what Elon Musk, his reactionary advisors, and fake journalists want you to believe, Twitter admitted its algorithms were biased in favor of right-wing accounts just last year.

Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets

Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds

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1 year

This is a car designed around the anxieties of very rich people who fear the public will turn on them.

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Teslaconomics

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When I get the Cybertruck, I will have no worries. @elonmusk Go ahead and throw a steel ball at my car, or even shoot the car bc this beast will protect me. $TSLA

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10 months

Tesla faked its dashboard range projections under orders from Elon Musk so it seemed drivers could go farther before recharging. Last year, the volume of complaints became so high it created a special team to start canceling owners’ service appointments.

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Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

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2 years

honestly frustrating to see how several decades of neoliberalism have curtailed the collective imagination to such a degree that things that should obviously just be public services have to instead be approached with market solutions to market problems

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honestly completely deranged to see the degree the US will back a rogue state that’s not only committing genocide but actively trying to drag it into a wider regional war

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CBS News

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The White House released a statement reiterating the U.S.'s "ironclad" support for Israel, amid reports that Iran has launched a drone attack on Israel. "The United States will stand with the people of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran," the…

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2 years

Someone paid $650,000 for a virtual mega-yacht. I repeat: the yacht does not exist beyond a virtual world called “The Sandbox.” Every time I see a story like this I not only think we need to rein this in, but also that taxing the rich isn’t enough; we need expropriation.

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1 year

In recent months, Elon Musk and his mother have been forcefully denying the existence of an emerald mine. But in a new interview, his father says he can prove its existence and that the money set Elon up in North America.

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the united states showing the world it will eagerly erode its own democracy to defend its genocidal colonial outpost in the middle east, regardless of whether democrats or republicans are in power

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5 months

As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to admit that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Its goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail from reaching North America. And sadly, it succeeded.

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The Hyperloop was always a scam

It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere

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6 months

blinken’s reaction to biden calling president xi a dictator is priceless 😂

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1 year

del Toro nails a big part of the problem with “AI art” and something these tech folks fail to comprehend as they’re blinded by a desire to automate anything human. They miss the very point of art as human expression. del Toro says their efforts are “an insult to life itself.”

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On the subject of #AIart , Guillermo del Toro ( @RealGDT ) says he will always "consume, and love, art made by humans."

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2 years

what shatner describes on having gone to the edge of space is exactly the emotion the space billionaires don’t want associated with their ego projects. it forces us to see that space colonization fantasies distract from what should be our priority: saving our beautiful planet.

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geniuses

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2 years

no wonder bezos quickly shut him up and popped a bottle of champagne

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graham starr

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William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space: "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered."

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Months after Elon Musk’s transgender daughter changed her name and said she wanted nothing to do with him, Musk is planning to axe a section of Twitter’s hateful content policy that penalizes people for misgendering and deadnaming trans people. What a vile man.

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2 years

The Hyperloop was doomed from the beginning because it was only ever announced with the goal of distracting from growing interest in high-speed rail and getting California’s HSR plans canceled. It was never “promising”; it was always a scam.

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@broderick why employed unionized workers to built sets when you can just use underpaid and overworked vfx workers to fill in it later?

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1 year

Elon Musk and his family seem particularly sensitive about shaping the narrative about their history lately, especially around the emerald mine. They act like they’ve never heard of it before, even though he bragged to Forbes about it in 2014.

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@mayemusk @CBSNews @Twitter The fake emerald mine thing is so annoying (sigh). Like where exactly is this thing anyway!?

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5 months

Incredible how much worse private jets are than literally any other form of transportation — even commercial airlines. There’s a strong case to ban them and the only people inconvenienced would be the richest of the rich.

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David Ho

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It's absurd that people are traveling to COP28 by private jet.

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Elon Musk is an utter moron and every person who has ever interviewed him should be embarrassed that it took Don Lemon to make him sweat. The man can never accept accountability for his actions; there always has to be someone else to take the blame.

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2 years

we already knew Musk opposed Trump’s Twitter ban and was “dismayed” he still wasn’t allowed to tweet, but i guess the day of a massive new Tesla recall is a good time to whip the media up in a frenzy about it

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Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies. The font is @Monotype ’s Special Alphabets 4. Who wants to bet Musk didn’t pay for the rights before slapping it all over the place?

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2 months

This should be an even bigger scandal than clapping for that old Ukrainian Nazi. It’s not just whitewashing historical fascism, but helping pave the way for its modern resurgence.

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Justin Trudeau

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Welcome to Canada, @GiorgiaMeloni . 🇨🇦🇮🇹

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Paris Marx

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JK Rowling is so deeply transphobic that even Elon Musk is telling her to lighten up a bit 🫠

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2 years

As I explained in my book, Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that he only announced Hyperloop because he wanted California’s high-speed rail system to get canceled. Even though he’s lauded for innovation, he’s constantly trying to stifle any efforts to get people out of cars.

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2 years

Elon Musk’s real contribution? Stifling alternatives to car dependence. “He admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project”

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6 months

Fascinating article about what it takes to keep Gaza online during the Israeli bombardment. PalTel buries its cables 8m/26ft deep (standard is 60cm/2ft), uses generators, solar panels, and batteries for redundancy, and has 750 employees braving bombs to do fixes.

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2 years

Big thanks to Bill for helping make this happen, by fighting to protect IP rights, ensuring AstraZeneca didn’t open source its vaccine, and constantly spreading the false narrative that much of the Global South can’t be trusted to manufacture vaccines.

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Bill Gates

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Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic. Omicron will hit home for all of us. Close friends of mine now have it, and I’ve canceled most of my holiday plans.

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Across the US, Elon Musk’s Boring Company shows up to pitch transport projects far below the cost of competitors. Local officials get excited and pursue them, for cost savings and to associate with Musk. But when it has to deliver, the company disappears.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ and then backed out when confronted with the realities of building public infrastructure.

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lmao jk rowling is responding to catturd2 now

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Paris Marx

5 months

The end of low interest rates is showing us what the tech companies really built over the past 15 years and it’s nothing like what their PR hacks once promised. Everything is more expensive, more invasive, and far less innovative or improved than they led us to believe.

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Culture Crave 🍿

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Prime Video is launching ads on January 29 A new ad-free option costs an additional $2.99 per month

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i’d start with critical thinking skills so they can tell this guy is full of shit

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Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years

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1 year

thinking about our brilliant commentariat today

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Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a $3500 product designed to isolate you from your environment and strap a screen to your face so you’re constantly making money for tech companies. It’s not a vision for the future of computing we should accept.

Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed

Tech companies want us isolated and constantly staring at screens because it drives profit

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5 months

lmao, pathetic

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Trains are incredibly absurdly obsolete technology.

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Paris Marx

9 months

Despite what Elon Musk says, it’s pretty clear that growing up under apartheid has shaped how he sees the world. He’s slowly becoming more direct in his racist views when talking about population rates, and now the white South African defends his own.

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The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide! If ever there was a time to cancel that publication, it is now. You can read their articles for free anyway using .

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2 years

sounds like we should just ban crypto

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So far, the current Ethereum price crash is doing more for the environment than the planned move to PoS. Compared to just three weeks ago, estimated carbon emissions related to the ETH network have gone down by around 30,000 metric tons of CO2 per day.

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i feel like we don’t talk enough about how we have a media ecosystem centered around influencers displaying their wealth in ever more egregious ways

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i feel attacked

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Elon Musk disagrees with the idea of unions because he doesn’t “like anything that creates a lords and peasants sort of thing.” Yes, the richest man in the world really did say that.

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@BarbaraRKay step back for a moment and consider how vile it is that you’re all lying about how evil the nazis were to try to defend the genocide and apartheid being done by israel

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1 year

my entire for “for you” tab is elon musk tweets and replies. i guess this is the product of him threatening to fire engineers if they didn’t boost his tweet engagement.

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lmao, what are the three words? wrong answers only

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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled. He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.

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@Dracogen @TheTattooedProf sue him into oblivion please

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@ZhugeEX lmao

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tl;dr a million people in the US alone have had fingers chopped off unnecessarily on table saws over the past 25 years because capitalists didn’t want to adopt a new safety technology that would cost a bit more

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There's been big drama about this technology recently. Back in 1999, a man named Steve Gass invented a system that sensed flesh and allowed the blade to stop and retract before it could cut into hands and fingers. This wasn't some gimmick. It actually worked. 40,000 people in…

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With the “Twitter Files,” Musk isn’t so much revealing things about Twitter we didn’t know, but using former journalists to rewrite Twitter’s history — at least for the cult and the right-wing — in a way that serves him, his insider circle, and the right-wing media ecosystem.

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@DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left

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haha what a coincidence

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There are actually plenty of studies to show that rich people threaten to leave when they’re faced with higher taxes to try to scare governments from implementing them, but then hardly any actually go anywhere once they take effect.

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Matt Spoke

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Unpopular opinion… “Tax the rich” and they’ll leave the country, taking their productive investment dollars with them. #Budget2024

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ChatGPT does not have “a memory.” It does not “remember” anything. OpenAI is just storing data about you and your engagement with its product. I’m begging the media to stop repeating tech companies’ misleading framings of their products.

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Road deaths keep soaring, but sure let’s keep putting people behind bigger, heavier vehicles with even more distractions and (in some cases) lead them to believe they don’t even have to look at the road because the vehicle will “drive” itself.

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‘Deadly step backwards’: US traffic deaths soar to highest total in 16 years

Deaths are the highest in 16 years as Americans returned to the roads after deserting them early in the pandemic

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Elon Musk is a shameless fraud. To lie about the death of his child, of all things.

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Happy to have this confirmed: the goal of Hyperloop was to get California’s high-speed rail canceled. Musk and the Kochs, both trying to halt a transition away from automobiles. For Musk, fantasy technologies are preferable to real solutions. #cahsr #highspeedrail

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It must be so scary for people in China now to be facing a massive Covid outbreak after three years of suppression. It’s also stomach-turning to see Western media that basically campaigned for the lifting of Zero Covid now use it as an excuse to further criticize China.

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This McDonalds is “fully automated” in the same way an automat or dumb waiter is fully automated: they’re designed to hide the (poorly paid) human labor and make it look like your food appears out of nowhere.

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You asked for $25 minimum wage You get: First fully automated McDonalds in Texas

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“Not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.” — Frankie Boyle The cycle doesn’t even take 20 months at this point.

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Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy have been cast in an untitled drama about 3 former special forces team members who go back to Afghanistan to rescue families and allies left behind amid the rapid fall of Afghanistan last August. (Source: Deadline)

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Imagine if a country passed a law saying Facebook or Google had to sell to a non-US owner or it would be banned from a particular country. I hope this wakes people up to how US tech companies have always been an element of US geopolitical power.

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The Associated Press

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BREAKING: The House passes a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell. The bill faces an uncertain path in the Senate.

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way more concerned about whatever this mind virus is than the supposed woke one

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lmao, this guy is so full of shit. we should be embarrassed as a species that so many people were fooled into thinking this rube was some kind of genius.

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Finally, I took a moment to explore some recent comments made by Keanu Reeves on deepfakes, AI tools, and where he sees all this going. He’s another prominent person not buying the hype, and warning about the very real consequences of where we’re headed.

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Apparently sharing child exploitation material isn’t an action worthy of suspension anymore. A big shift from Musk’s earlier rhetoric that actually he cared about cracking down on it far more than the previous management.

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one of the big problems, obviously, is that this is positioned as the lifestyle for young people to strive for and emulate — a very individualist pursuit of personal wealth, regardless of the consequences

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Elon Musk is such a big believer in democracy that he’s seized a communications platform and intends to reshape it according to his personal whims.

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If you needed any more evidence that New Atheism was really an Islamophobic movement above all else.

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Aaron Bastani

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Bizarre from Dawkins, who wrote a book called ‘The God Delusion’ claiming religion was a deeply malevolent, dividing force in the world. Now he’s calling himself a ‘cultural Christian’? Find it odd to use religion to extend your secular political points.

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🚨 Santa’s assassination coordinates are live! 🚨

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Flightradar24

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Breaking news! Santa has taken off! #SantaTracker

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Overall, Elon’s father says he sent his sons about $115,000 in total and that the emerald money helped them get started in North America.

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Paris Marx

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For years, the media was happy to build up Elon Musk and convince the public of his genius. But now it’s impossible to ignore who he really is. The media failed us, and now they must reckon with how they covered him and the wider tech industry.

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The media's failure on Elon Musk

After building him up, they need to tear him down

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1 year

Silicon Valley’s elite made their billions through luck, not genius. Now, to protect their privilege, they want us to believe they’re inherently superior. For Disconnect, I explain they’re bringing eugenics back in a self-serving quest to remain on top.

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Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back

Elon Musk is the most prominent face of the effort to protect tech's privilege

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1 year

Elon Musk fired the janitors, so now “the smell of leftover takeout food and body odor has lingered” and “bathrooms have grown dirty.” It’s so bad that “some workers have resorted to bringing their own rolls of toilet paper from home.”

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What’s Gone at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper. (Published 2022)

Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.

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Paris Marx

1 year

Elon Musk thrives on making the same promises over and over again and hoping you don’t notice he never actually follows through.

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1 year

🥰🥰🥰

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Paris Marx

3 years

Who needs communism when we could have a decentralized crypto gaming ubi? 🤡

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Paris Marx

8 months

Just gonna leave this here.

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Elon Musk

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@m1stergino I support Russell Brand. That man is not evil.

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Paris Marx

2 years

we should start referring to prominent capitalists in the west as “the oligarchs”

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1 year

The Tesla Files contain more than 2,400 self-acceleration complaints, 1,500 braking function problems, and 1,000 crashes. The leaked files show Tesla instructs employees to only communicate verbally about complaints so there’s no written documentation.

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Whistleblower Drops 100 Gigabytes Of Tesla Secrets To German News Site: Report

The files contain over 1,000 accident reports involving phantom braking or unintended acceleration--mostly in the U.S. and Germany.

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Paris Marx

1 year

the dystopian world these people promote as utopia is one where rich people have easy access to doctors and in-person private schooling for their kids, but the poor have AI docbots and chatbot teachers — and they’re supposed to be grateful for it

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these tools will help us be more productive (can't wait to spend less time doing email!), healthier (AI medical advisors for people who can’t afford care), smarter (students using ChatGPT to learn), and more entertained (AI memes lolol).

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Paris Marx

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Good on Hasan for interviewing that Yemeni guy. It makes me think of Bourdain or even Rick Steves going to Iran and showing how our supposed enemies are just regular people a lot like us. It’s necessary to cut through the narratives that support US empire and its militarism.

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love when libs present themselves as intellectually superior to conservatives, or empathetic & then just go on a racist rant about how a 19 year old arab dude from yemen is a fan of child soldiers and slavery when he never said anything of the sort! how dare i humanize him?

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Paris Marx

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the don lemon interview shows just how quickly elon musk’s bullshitting falls apart when journalists ask him real follow up questions. it’s incredible that it comes at the same time kara swisher presents herself as tech’s great truth teller, yet she never did the same.

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Paris Marx

1 year

I wrote all about Musk’s time at PayPal recently, and how he’s pulling a lot of the same moves while failing to learn from his mistakes.

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Paris Marx

1 year

Before Tesla, Elon Musk launched a company called that he hoped would upend the banking system. It didn’t, but he never gave up on the idea. Now he’s trying to recreate that vision at Twitter. I explain why it’s doomed to fail.

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1 year

I read through Elon Musk’s full testimony about his $56 billion Tesla pay package at the Delaware court, and really enjoyed the moments where the plaintiffs’ lawyer asked him about his titles. Also, the idea that he “designs the rockets” at SpaceX is laughable.

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3 years

imo facebook is a zombie platform that sucks but a lot of people still have an account because it’s basically infrastructure

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Paris Marx

10 months

We don’t need to put computers behind the wheel; we need to get cars off the road altogether and invest in transit and cycling instead.

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We ran this full-page ad in @nytimes and several local papers today. Human drivers aren't good enough. America can do better, and it is time we fully embrace AVs.

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1 year

honestly too funny that post explicitly says no making fun of billionaires. no surprise it’s funded by a16z!

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1 year

@elonmusk @mayemusk @CBSNews @Twitter Funny how you apparently know nothing about the emerald mine, yet told Forbes all about it in 2014!

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1 year

Elon’s father explains that the mine was an informal operation where there were “no signed agreements or financial statements.” That aligns with the story Elon was telling in 2014, taking about guns and contraband.

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Paris Marx

1 year

Elon Musk and his family seem particularly sensitive about shaping the narrative about their history lately, especially around the emerald mine. They act like they’ve never heard of it before, even though he bragged to Forbes about it in 2014.

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