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Twitter is a soap opera where Musk is the star, the only actor in the spotlight. The world should look away, says Roger McNamee

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

Why You Should Clarify Which Free Speech Value You’re Debating

The incident last week underscored how Elon Musk’s personal concerns can influence his governance of a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people.

But here we are.

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous

The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to trust a human-sounding machine, argue Emily M. Bender & Chirag Shah.,

There are tough sells, and there are tough sells. Selling shares of Twitter at $54.20 today could be grist for a sequel to *Glengarry Glen Ross*.