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So many questions today after a tumultuous night on Twitter that saw Elon Musk suspend multiple journalists’ accounts for violating his company’s anti-docking policy. Twitter has also taken down Spaces’ audio chat feature. Musk used last night to have a live discussion about suspension. All mysteries cannot be listed. But here’s a sample: Like I said, this list can get really long. Whatever the answers to these questions are, it doesn’t matter in Elon Musk’s Twitter days. Because in Elon Musk’s Twitter days, all that matters is what Musk believes and does in the moment. So if you think Twitter’s…

Twitter has suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists, many of whom reported on the controversial acquisition of the company by Elon Musk. Journalists suspended so far include CNN’s Donny O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, The New York Times’ Ryan Mack, Mashable’s Matt Binder and The Intercept’s Micary Lee. The sudden purge of journalists seems to contradict Musk’s pledge to protect free speech on Twitter. “I was so perplexed,” freelance journalist and former Vox reporter Aaron Ruper said when he began receiving messages from other journalists saying he had been suspended. Having lost access to his 790,000 followers, he…

Big surprise: The Twitter Files — the reports based on internal Twitter documents and messages that the company’s new owner Elon Musk provided to journalists — have landed as a polarizing salvo in the culture war. Many inclined to distrust what they see as Big Tech’s liberal leanings have cried vindication. The documents show in detail how Twitter made key content moderation decisions that disadvantaged Trump, conservatives, and people who broke with the public health consensus on Covid-19. They say the evidence proves that, again and again, Twitter intervened to squelch speech that the liberal establishment didn’t like. Meanwhile, others…

Marissa Peterson quit her job as a bartender in Durham, North Carolina, in June, after she was sexually assaulted by a customer and felt management didn’t do enough to keep her assailant from returning to the establishment. Her decision, Peterson said, was informed by time she spent at home during the pandemic, after being laid off from another job. Extended pandemic unemployment insurance gave her, for the first time in her adult life, space from work and time to consider her relationship with it. “I was able to truly start thinking about how I had been mistreated by several employers,…

Since the release of the so-called “Twitter File”, in which Elon Musk claims to have gone too far with Twitter’s “awakened” admins before the acquisition, there has been a lively debate about exactly what Musk is trying to achieve. It’s been done. His statements clearly indicate that he considers himself embroiled in some sort of culture war. as he tweeted Monday morningBut what does Twitter’s very public accusations against its former management have to do with its fight against the ‘woke mind virus’? To understand how Musk perceives connections, see: Recent Tweets of Antonio Garcia Martinez, is a writer deeply…

Rebellion Defense set out to disrupt the way the Pentagon handles new technologies. Silicon Valley’s elite and Washington’s national security leaders lined up behind the startup. Three and a half years later, Rebellion is falling short. Founded in 2019, Rebellion wants to create AI-powered software for the military, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement. The startup has claimed its tools could sort through heaps of sensitive data to help officials make decisions, and that it will ultimately build software capable of making battlefield decisions. Its backers are as big as they come, with high-profile investors like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.…

As recently as the summer of 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried was the boy-wonder face of crypto: a 30-year-old who founded one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, a celebrated philanthropist worth an estimated $16 billion, and a major Democratic donor who quickly found favor in Washington. By early November, he was at the center of an epic flameout that left his empire and his image as an uncannily sharp, altruistic billionaire in ruins. Now Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas and charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering, among other things. He has been denied bail,…

Here’s something you rarely hear a Democratic senator say: “Donald Trump was right.” But that’s what Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is saying now, and it’s all because of TikTok, the popular video app that Trump tried to ban in the waning months of his presidency. “As painful as it is for me to say, if Donald Trump was right and we could’ve taken action then, that’d have been a heck of a lot easier than trying to take action in November of 2022,” Warner told Recode. “The sooner we bite the bullet, the better.” Warner is the chair of the…

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., home to the world’s most powerful laser, announced Tuesday that they have crossed a tipping point in their quest for fusion power. This is 1) a major scientific breakthrough and 2) we still have a long way to go to harness the reaction that powers the Sun, nuclear fusion, as a viable source of abundant clean energy. On December 5, the team fired 192 laser beams at small fuel pellets, producing slightly more energy than the lasers put in. Nuclear Security Administration, at a news conference on Tuesday. To make fusion…

It’s taken a few weeks longer than planned, but now it looks like Elon Musk’s paid verification system is starting to roll out in earnest. You can sign up for Blue. This gives you blue ticks, the ability to edit your posts, and a few other perks, but most of it is still “fewer ads, you can post longer videos, your tweets are amplified than tweets from the unwashed, unchecked masses. This change is controversial, mainly because it defeats the original purpose of blue checks and validations. These blue checks were handed out to users that Twitter deemed worthy of…