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Tesla made a super long ad using worn-out tropes about what women want in cars (women who historically are less likely to adopt EVs or return to EVs after owning one and are also put off by Teslas in general) in a country where its most basic model is a luxury item in order to sell a few dozen more cars. Good luck on any future commercials Tesla, you’re gonna need it.
There is one line I disagree with in this analysis, though:
the platform that birthed every progressive political movement of the last 20 years
That is just not the case, sorry. Other than this line, he has a pretty solid argument here about what Musk might be doing.
Agence France Presse has heads up from the Commission of the EU.
Also speaks to your last post @RickMycroft
Yeah. Remind me to post the research on the relationship between Twitter and Occupy and Arab Spring (tangential, not involving organisers, participants or activists, and often in different t countries).
That trope needs to die, be buried, and every time it comes back from the bed have a stake out through its heart and bury it in quicklime.
I know in Egypt, the tipping point was when Mubarak cut off the internet… more people came out onto the streets and that’s what made the difference…
Seriously, why do we not have a middle finger emoji?
It would be such a shame if one of the upcoming Space-X launches from Florida were to fail spectacular, with the flaming debris somehow raining down all over Mar-a-Lago.
However, Mr Dabiri said: "Working with @elonmusk has been highly educational, and it was enlightening to see how his principles and vision are shaping the future of this company."
I wonder how much Dabiri intended to avoid actually saying anything positive, because this quote does a good job of it. 
There is, just not as a reaction 
In unsurprising news, more chaos and attrition at Twitter:
For context: Handelsblatt, as the name suggests, is a business newspaper for financial types. Think Wall Street Journal. Not exactly a leftist rag with an axe to grind. If they decided to risk a lawsuit over publishing this, they must have seen merit to the claims.
Reportedly there are only about 3 people still working on the Twitter Spaces team.
And Twitter and Facebook were blocked in Egypt well before that.
What happened on Twitter was the chattering class spectating and speculating about what was really happening on the ground.
For months now, the Spaces team has been operating without most of the institutional knowledge it accumulated since Twitter added live audio conversations in 2021
If you’ve lost all the institutional knowledge from something that’s only 2 years old, you’ve done screwed up.
