Category Archives: Technology and Society

Business, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

What Elon Should Do About Twitter

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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…”

Popular Culture, Technology and Society, Weird

This Isn’t Crazy At All

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Two lunaticsdaredevils are going to swap aircraft in mid-air.

[Monday-morning update]

So, apparently the stunt was a half success. I couldn’t tell from the original story whether or not they’d have parachutes (though if not, that seemed totally nuts), but apparently they did, which is why the pilot survived the failed attempt.

And really, FAA? Who are you to decide what is in the public interest, and whether or not someone should be allowed to do something even if you think it isn’t? I thought this was America.

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Business, Economics, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Technology and Society

Credit Where It’s Due

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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.