Category Archives: Business

What Elon Should Do About Twitter

EFF has some suggestions.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Elon conquers the Twitterverse.

[Update Wednesday morning]

The great Musk Twitter meltdown.

[Bumped]

[Update a couple minutes later]

Eccentric billionaire does more for free speech in one day than Republican politicians have in decades.

[Update a few minutes later]

Musk’s acquisition is making academia angry and nervous.

Good.

[Update a while later]

The week in pictures, Muskageddon edition.

[Late-morning update]

The need for Elon.

“…The likelihood of skewed priorities with the operational mindset within a company that displays this kind of lack of viewpoint diversity is stratospheric. When a GOP donor is harder to find on the payroll than a vegan cannibal, you have to expect that a uniform level of thinking would become entrenched. When every single person in the offices sits in the same bubble, those overseeing the enforcement of the terms of service will not question things when questionable decisions are made…”

Credit Where It’s Due

Joe Biden does something right (which is huge news, because it is unprecedented).

He could be doing more, though, in terms of easing up on archaic NRC rules to allow the construction of more modern plant designs faster. And as is often noted, it’s hard to take seriously people who claim that we are in a climate “crisis” or “emergency” if they don’t support nuclear power.

[Update a few minutes later]

Sorry, I’ve provided the link this time.

Covid Closures

How they took a toll on the kids.

Many of us frustrated by the lengthy school closures were enraged by a statement we found far too dismissive and even callous: “Kids are resilient.” (The great Mary Katharine Ham tore this apart back in January.) All too often, that was a blasé slogan designed to excuse an intolerable status quo.

Our kids aren’t necessarily resilient, and we didn’t like having their need to be resilient shoved upon them by teachers’ unions who kept dragging their feet on reopening schools and public-health officials who deemed birthday parties, travel, summer camps, visiting grandparents, etc. an intolerable risk.

Infuriating.