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Maybe we’ll look back and see that Elon Musk did us, the civilized citizens of the net, a favor by forcing us off our cozy if centralized, corporatized, and corrupted internet to find and build an…

You break it, you buy it.

Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more

One Twitter insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

The Musk era of Twitter has so far been defined by unhinged tweets, fleeing advertisers, and botched layoffs.

A combination more powerful than one might think

Democrats are warning that “democracy is on the ballot.” This doesn’t mean democracy will simply end if Republican win power, but democracy will become more threatened by a party that does not respect liberal norms or Democratic election victories.

On the bus with the Democrat running for governor of Pennsylvania

What we learned about celebrity oligarchs

There’s plenty of speculation about what he’ll do, and whether — or how — he’ll wreck it. I have no unique insights above the stuff you’ve probably already…

What's happening to the entire media, in speeded-up time-lapse form.

Well, Elon’s first week running Twitter has gone worse than I expected. I said last week that I thought the platform would be pretty much unchanged in 1-3 months and then effectively dead within a year. Now it’s looking like it’ll be pretty different in 1-3 weeks and effectively dead within six months. (Nice job, Elon. You spent $44 billion to bring back the fail whale.)

And, about that yuge DHS "leak"

For Twitter's angry nerds, the blue check is like a girlfriend — it's infuriating because you can't buy it

Rogan told guest Tulsi Gabbard last month that his wife’s friend was a teacher at a school that installed litter boxes in the girls’ bathroom.

I keep seeing this pattern. You need a content site, and tools designed for blogging are a straightforward way to create a content site. So, you start a blog, except most posts are evergreen content. Content that you are going to update. Before long, you are updating old blog posts and finding they ...

Litter boxes, stolen elections, and the Pelosi attack

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve by Mike Masnick

It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actually means, and then they quickly discover a whole bunch of fairly fundamental ideas, institute a bunch of rapid (often sloppy) changes… and in the end, […]

Twitter’s new owner faces a difficult regulatory landscape around the world.