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Podcast Episode 95 What could go wrong? Well, nothing portends Twitter’s fate quite like Elon blaming “activists” for a potentially bankrupting drop in advertising revenue. I mean, how rich is that. Evidently this “free speech absolutist” is just learning the truth and consequences of free speech. Having others put an albatross around his neck would’ve… Listen.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk for a sucker. Except that Twitter employees are the ones feeling played. That’s what inspired this headline today in the New York Post: Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ They blame him for wooing Elon Musk. Because Musk… Read more.
Kanye West (aka Ye) spent much of last summer bullying Pete Davidson, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, on social media. This, because he could no more accept losing Kim to Pete than Donald Trump could accept losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. But Kanye had the last laugh, which I decried in “Kanye,… Read more.
A steep sell-off that gained momentum this week starkly illustrated the risks of the experimental and unregulated digital currencies. The price of Bitcoin plunged to its lowest point since 2020. Coinbase, the large cryptocurrency exchange, tanked in value. A cryptocurrency that promoted itself as a stable means of exchange collapsed. And more than $300 billion… Read more.
Elon Musk has the whole world at twitter over his bitcoin bid to buy Twitter. It’s a bitcoin bid because his interest in Twitter seems every bit as impulsive and careless as his interest in that cryptocurrency turned out to be. Menacing Bitcoin Recall that, in February last year, Musk tweeted that Tesla had bought… Read more.
Harley Davidson’s roll out of a new electric bike last week confirms its intent to appeal more to members of the establishment than to rebels without a cause. Not least because the way this bike looks, rides, and, perhaps most important, sounds conjures up images more of a sleek cheetah than a grizzly bear. I… Read more.
