embarrassed to admit it, but I have absolutely no idea what is going on with the Oakland mayoral race this time around — please drop good links to read!

NEW: Elon Musk said he would cut nearly 75 percent of Twitter's staff if he takes control, far deeper cuts than the company's current leadership has proposed. The initial cuts would target lower performers, who scored less than a 3 on performance reviews. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Elon Musk on Tesla's earning call about his Twitter acquisition:

'I’m excited about the Twitter situation because obviously I know that product incredibly well and it’s an asset that has sort of languished for a long time and has incredible potential.'

Here’s something I wrote a couple of months ago 🙃 nytimes.com/2022/07/14/tec…

NEWS: Biden admin releases long-anticipated rule making it more likely for millions of workers to be classified as employees. Could deal a blow to gig companies' business model. nytimes.com/2022/10/11/bus…

I heard all this talk about the metaverse so I decided to go live there for a while. Over the last few months, I’ve been in Meta’s virtual reality social network Horizon Worlds every hour of the night and day to meet the metaverse’s earliest adopters. nytimes.com/2022/10/07/tec…

X is the name of an online bank Elon Musk helped found, how he refers to his son with Grimes and, now, an 'everything app' whose creation would be accelerated by buying Twitter.

But what does that mean?

nytimes.com/2022/10/06/tec…

closing the day with the Cringe Glitch

So what is X, 'the everything app'? Kalley Huang explains: nytimes.com/2022/10/06/tec…

maybe in November I'll finally go out and buy a blazer

Three great coworkers were laid off today, all of whom absolutely rule and will be snapped up by someone reading this: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Italian Elon Musk and rp. I can’t say enough nice things but I also don’t have to; their work speaks for itself. Media, man.

lots of news happening at the moment but just need to take time to say that only an absolute goober with no business working in journalism would fail to recognize how essential Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai's reporting is

NEW: Elon Musk proposed recutting the Twitter deal for a steep discount in recent weeks. w/ Michael S. Schmidt Andrew Ross Sorkin Lauren Hirsch nytimes.com/2022/10/05/tec…