Web 2.0: We Start to Doubt En Masse
The whole Elon Twitter Thing has been quite a Thing these last few months. I’m sure this time next year this story (and quite possibly Twitter itself) will be a distant memory, but here in December 2022 the fast moving train wreck asserts itself: It turns out Elon Musk is just another billionaire narcissist, as laid out in this excellent piece from Linette Lopez . This mostly makes me sad, because in a world of bad news here was a visionary that took on Big Auto (Tesla finally got EVs on the map), Big Energy, and the military-industrial complex, and against all odds, appeared to be winning. I wanted to believe, but as Linette explains, it is part of his shtick. Through his words and actions Mr. Musk has driven half the top 100 advertisers from the platform last month , with a trend that keeps accelerating with each new poll or edict. The blowback is also cratering the Tesla share price, and it is all of his own volition. Maybe it is some cunning tax write-off (but I don’t be...