Among the people Musk has brought into the fold at Twitter include his personal lawyer, Alex Spiro; David Sacks, a friend and VC; and Kayvon Beykpour, a former Twittter exec who was fired under the previous CEO.

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There's not been enough scrutiny of the fact that Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has been propped up with cash from Qatar & Saudi Arabia

El Salvador | Las empresas de telecomunicaciones tendrán seis meses para elaborar una base de datos personales de todos sus usuarios de telefonía móvil e internet, y ponerla a disposición del Gobierno. laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Tel…

NEW: Today, Justice Department announced historic changes to its news media guidelines prohibiting subpoenas and other types of legal process against the press in all but narrow circumstances.

Full statement from Executive Director Bruce D. Brown: rcfp.org/doj-news-media…

Parag Agrawal got into a legal showdown with the richest man on earth, embarrassed him so badly he completely folded, then as a reward gets bought out of all his equity at the highest conceivable valuation and *doesn’t have to run twitter any more*

Michelangelo Miani

📌Did you guys know that Americans make up Mexico's largest demographic of immigrants? There are about 1.2 million Americans in Mexico!

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Twitter, a leaky company with poor data governance and security, is letting go of who knows how many employees, including top execs (who get golden parachutes). It's not quite 'disband the Iraqi army' reckless but they're chucking out some folks with access and grievances.

This week dave karpf joins Paris Marx for a wide-ranging discussion on how Zuckerberg is cratering Meta and the billionaires are destroying the world.

In this clip, Dave explains the joy of watching billionaires burn companies to the ground.

Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/mark-z…

Taxes!

For the record Musk’s first move - firing Agrawal, Segal and Gadde - cost him $204 million in payouts and parachutes.

Wonder what happened after the April 14 tweets. Maybe MBS threatened to send the prince back to the Ritz.

A roomba that swears every time it hits something.

Soon we will have so much free speech, just swimming in the stuff, but we must sign NDAs denying everything that happened here. New policy from the big guy.

Downloading my twitter archive, putting several encrypted copies on various thumb drives, and burying them in the abandoned lots that my mentor showed me.

Meta wasn't done in by its globe-straddling (and government-collaborating) surveillance state, the whistleblower reports, or its boomer chain letter culture driving out younger users. It was b/c one guy controlled it all and he wanted to build a very bad video game at any cost.

Zuckerberg taking one of the most valuable companies on earth and lighting it on fire because he read Snow Crash or whatever is one of the funnier billionaire own goals