Will Oremus
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Will Oremus
@WillOremus
Joined June 2010
- OK obviously I’m late to this but how wild is it that Insider contacted Elon for comment yesterday morning, and by yesterday afternoon he was publicly announcing that he’s become a Republican and to expect politically motivated “dirty tricks” from the left in retribution?
- Big day for the “free speech” crowd on here suddenly embracing the idea that online speech can lead stochastically to real-world violence, justifying the imposition of centralized content moderation.
- Elon Musk: Everyone should get their news from X, not the fake news media Everyone: Learns from X that JD Vance fucked a couch
- Antisemitic tweets have more than doubled since Elon Musk took over, a new study finds. Asked for comment, Twitter's press department auto-responded with a poop emoji.
- If you'd asked a climate scientist a decade or two ago to speculate on what the climate crisis might look like in the US by 2021, "116 degrees in Portland, 9-month fire seasons in CA, and buildings collapsing on the Miami coast" would have been the *alarmist* answer.
- The meta-story behind the Elon Musk / Twitter saga is that the new tech barons have become so wealthy and powerful that entire companies/ markets/ industries/ news cycles hang on their every word and whim, no matter how unhinged or bizarre.
- Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadership to its staff, a week after Musk took over: a fun game where you get to find out if you're laid off or not based by 9am tomorrow, based on whether the email pops up in your Twitter account or personal account.
- Elon Musk has now publicly agreed with and amplified criticisms from the right of two individual Twitter employees today— one accusing its top policy exec of “censorship” and the other accusing a company lawyer of facilitating fraud.
- Sen. Blumenthal, stern-faced, asked Facebook's Antigone Davis, "Will you commit to ending Finsta?" Davis explained that it's slang for a fake account--not an official Instagram product or service.
- VC Marc Andreessen has railed against cities like San Francisco for failing to build more housing. But when his own hyper-rich, manicured SF suburb proposed a zoning change to allow a small number of multifamily homes, Andreessen and his wife wrote this. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
