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What Elon Musk is doing to Twitter right now is what happens when someone with the same ideology and worldview as James Damore has enough power and money to be in charge of a company instead of jus…

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

None of us agreed to live like this, but still we do. Consent is implied.

Well-being is a two-way street. Your employer has a responsibility to create the best working conditions they can—and they benefit when they do.

The case for GDP plus GDD

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, a darling of the American right, markets himself very differently from American populists.

While America made the network that would become the internet, programmers in Chile were building a vision of their own.

By the time Chile’s workers rose up to rally around Salvador Allende, Latin America had become a key arena in US planners’ “mortal struggle to determine the shape of the future world.” Henry Kissinger was obsessed with toppling the socialist president.

“Beyond the cursing, Elon Musk’s interview is erratic enough to end his career.”

Who eats the sin-eater's sins?

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In a rambling interview at the ‘New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Elon Musk suggested advertisers fleeing X were blackmailing him and could kill the platform.

X Corp owner Elon Musk taunts Bob Iger, says Twitter 'will be gone' if advertisers keep boycotting.

Posted on Thursday 30 Nov 2023. 552 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.

Tesla’s anti-union stance is colliding with the EU’s strong labor laws.

Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation

Today on TAP: The uses of small magazines in the battle of ideas

Refusing to be pushed into traditional child-rearing roles, young women in China are quietly posing a challenge for its male-dominated government.

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

The saga of a species that knows not its place.