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  • Does the SpaceX IPO suggest AI labs won’t be fiscally disciplined by going public?

  • What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

  • Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

  • How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

  • What is Elon Musk’s end game?

  • Elon Musk: First Buddy of the United States

  • Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

  • Elon Musk’s social media addiction

  • Elon Musk has not finished building his cultural machine

  • We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

  • The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

  • Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

  • Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

  • A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

  • Should other professional associations leave Twitter/X?

  • The terrifying future of AI-driven news

  • When Elon Musk and George Osborne were forced to confront that people hate them

  • Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

  • Elon Musk on deautomation

  • Who is paying for Twitter blue?

  • It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

  • Saying goodbye to Twitter

  • Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

  • Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

  • 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

  • What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

  • Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

  • Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

  • Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

  • how the digital elites do festivals 

  • how many dancing billionaires are there at burning man?

  • a perpetual-motion machine that runs on a weird mix of dissatisfaction and eternal hope

  • acronyms seriously suck 

  • the hiring rituals of tech companies 

  • the expanding ambitions of digital elites 

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