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SpaceX’s earnings reveal Elon Musk wiped out two-thirds of Twitter’s ad revenue. The tragedy isn’t incompetence — it’s that his free speech ideology perfectly aligned with his own incentives while perfectly destroying the incentives of advertisers. A masterclass in how ignoring your business model leads to collapse.
Anti-tech rhetoric has become a luxury belief: a way to signal moral superiority without sacrificing the convenience of the very products you condemn. This article exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of modern tech criticism, arguing that the real problem isn’t technology itself – it’s our unwillingness to acknowledge our own dependency. By pretending to be above the system, we actually feed it. The only honest path forward is to stop performing and start making real choices.
X Money’s new physical card lets you put your Twitter username on it. That means your toxic online persona is about to become a very public, very awkward reality at the checkout counter. The age of digital anonymity is ending — and it’s ending with a swipe.
Bluesky just appointed a veteran Web 2.0 CEO, Toni Schneider, to lead its transition from idealistic protocol to corporate entity. For users who fled Twitter’s chaos, this feels like a betrayal. But the uncomfortable truth is that decentralization doesn’t pay the bills. This article explores the agonizing choice between preserving ethos and achieving scale.