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“The largest percentage of Twitter Blue subscribers are people whose identity as howlingly obvious marks seems to have supplanted virtually everything else about them. They are drawn to Elon for the same reason that moths crisp themselves on lightbulbs.”

Where Twitter is at. Very good. https://defector.com/burning-down-the-house

Burning Down The House | Defector

The overheated register in which Silicon Valley types have tended to talk about Twitter is how they always talk about whatever they are selling, right before they move on to selling something else.

Happy Mother’s Day to the original helicopter parent
It’s a Sunday in May, and the New York Times political desk has something to tell us about the race for president: Both parties have flawed candidates. [I won’t link.]
Our NRA World: 3 innocent bystanders are hit by stray bullets fired by two passing cars shooting at each other. It happens. https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/5/14/23723051/3-bystanders-wounded-river-north-crossfire-drivers-exchange-gunfire-hubbard-street
3 wounded in River North crossfire

The three bystanders who were shot were on the sidewalk in the 100 block of West Hubbard Street when two passing drivers started shooting at each other.

Chicago Sun-Times
It’s really hard to overstate how acutely dangerous this is: All strands of the Right - leading Republicans, the media machine, the reactionary intellectual sphere, the conservative base - are openly and aggressively embracing rightwing vigilante violence.

Title 42 ended, but because the Biden Administration planned ahead and is actually competent, we didn’t see a crush of migrants streaming across the border.

The media, probably: “Border crossings are surprisingly lower. Here’s how that’s bad for the White House.”

NY: White Vet kills mentally ill Black man—GOP makes killer a hero😳

WI: White shooter kills 2 people at BLM rally—GOP makes killer a hero😳

TX: White Vet kills BLM marcher—GOP makes killer a hero😳

DC: Black cop kills white insurrectionist—GOP makes insurrectionist a hero🤔

This is what white supremacy looks like

2/ Sure this has nothing to do with musk’s decision to censor government opposition with Twitter and swing the election. Because he has so much integrity.

https://t.co/S2dbpy06rs

Turkey signs deal with SpaceX to launch Türksat 6A satellite

Elon Musk's U.S.-based SpaceX is set to launch Turkey's first domestically produced communications satellite, Türksat 6A, in 2023. After...

Daily Sabah
On the Road to Failure collects #pitchdecks and presentations made by companies that failed thereafter, such as #CreditSuisse, or were frauds, such as #Enron and #Theranos. Presentations and pitch decks by the largest #business failures and corporate frauds https://www.slidebook.io/blog/article/on-the-road-to-failure/
On the Road to Failure | Slidebook.io

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