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To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
“[Elon] Musk is kind of an unsubtle example of the problem with Tech Bros,” says Cory Doctorow.
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Warren Demands Review of Contracts With Musk Amid Actions Against Ukraine
Critics questioned whether Musk's actions had violated the Logan Act.
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Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky
Musk and Bezos are peddling new age-y religious drama of disaster and salvation, says author Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
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AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine
“The real threat of these systems is what it will mean for our power,” says Paris Marx.
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Twitter Threatens to Nix Advertisers’ Verification If They Don’t Spend More
Rather than ban neo-Nazis who are scaring advertisers off the platform, X is seemingly resorting to threats.
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Bizarre and Dangerous Utopian Ideology Has Quietly Taken Hold of Tech World
“It's shaping our world right now,” says philosopher and historian Émile P. Torres.
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Twitter Refused to Pay Ex-Employees $500 Million in Severance, Lawsuit Says
Under Elon Musk, the company has laid off over 6,000 people, or about 80 percent of its staff.
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World’s Richest Added Average of $14M Per Day to Their Wealth Over Past 6 Months
The 500 richest people on the planet collectively added $852 billion to their fortunes in the first half of 2023.
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Twitter’s Ad Sales Have Plummeted 59 Percent in Months Since Musk’s Takeover
Prior to Musk’s takeover, advertisers provided about 90 percent of Twitter’s revenue.
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Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Elon Musk’s SpaceX From Lawsuits
An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded last month, resulting in catastrophic environmental damage.