Metaverse

Betaverse

In tech news, the internet is still dead. And its much-hyped replacement looks to be stillborn. Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Wednesday it would cut more than 11,000 jobs, or 13% of its workforce, in one of the year's biggest layoffs as the Facebook parent battles soaring costs from…
Green Shoots Forest Fire

The Cleansing Fire

Back when the regime started imposing medical tyranny under the aegis of hastening the return to normal, the internet sages prophesied that "normal" would never come back. Like Vietnam or 9/11, our rulers' response to Corona-chan marked a point of no return the culture could never bounce back from. Take…
Musk Free Bird

Free Bird

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Musk Sink In

Liquid Plumber

Billionaire Elon Musk's half-year-long gambit to break the Death Cult's grip on social media has now entered the endgame. He's liquidated a fortune in Tesla stock. And the word from Wall Street is that the banks who've agreed to underwrite Musk's Twitter buyout have begun wiring the money to buy…
Twitter Musk

Twitter Staff Locked Out

... of their stock accounts in the runup to Elon Musk closing his deal to buy the social media site. Twitter has frozen equity award accounts for employees days ahead of the deadline to close its deal with Elon Musk, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, a sign that the social…
AI Writing

A.I. Writing

The same eggheads who said the internet would end censorship, Bitcoin would end state coercion, and Google thermostats would end global warming have also been telling us the A.I. revolution is 10 years away for 50 years now. But the advent of A.I. drawing algorithms like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion…
Musk Twitter

Musk v Twitter: 3 X the Charm

A surprise move that brings Elon Musk closer to owning Twitter than ever in their months-long legal saga, the billionaire has reversed course on his decision to abandon the deal. Elon Musk's $44 billion deal to buy Twitter is back on the table and the billionaire is claiming the purchase…
Musk Dorsey

Secret Messages

Elon Musk's legal wrangling with Twitter had been rather quiet since the social media company's board voted in favor of the billionaire's buyout earlier this month. Now, leaked messages between Musk and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey shed new light on Uncle Elon's motives. Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey texted privately…
Smarthphone Dark Age

A New Dark Age

As Western civilization decays, it's easy to forget that the errors that inaugurated a new dark age were sold as steps toward a shiny, sexy utopia. Progress is essential to the Death Cult's moral myth much as salvation informs Christian teleology. The Cult's brand evangelists prophesied that technological advances like…
Elonk Musk Popcorn

Twisty Twitter Saga

Billionaire Elon Musks's already Byzantine dealings with Twitter have taken another twist. Twitter's shareholders have officially voted to approve Elon Musk's $44 billion bid, allowing the board to take the company private if it can force the billionaire to uphold his deal in the upcoming trial. The shareholders met for…