By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026As John Quiggin writes, the pre-2020 Musk was the Musk of Tesla, batteries and Starlink. The post-2020 Musk is the Musk of Starship, robotaxis, Cybertrucks and Twitter - a string of commercial flops and assets that literally exploded. 3/ 139248
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026I would add that post-2020 Musk created the world's hungriest money-furnace, an automated child-porn production tool called "XAI": crookedtimber.org/2026/06/15/o... 4/crookedtimber.orgOne big grift — Crooked Timber 231848
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026Quiggin declares that this is the era in which "financial markets fail in the task of valuing assets accurately," and "the institutional structures that are supposed to make them work have given up trying." Nor did this start with the Spacex IPO. 5/ 130435
r #FreeŁink @rifka.bsky.social · 20/06/2026we say CSEM now for the dignity of victims/survivors like myself. “child porn” is a bit lurid and old fashioned but thank you for discussing this issue! 🫡🏴 000
