2023-04-16

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Millionaires Are Not into Paying for Twitter Verification
Elon Musk said the Twitter Files are basically dead

SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility sits amid one of the most unique natural habitats in the northern hemisphere. The area is home to countless endangered species and provides a wintering home to the piping plover and red knot. These two federally protected shorebird species use the productive but ecologically sensitive low tidal marsh to nest and forage. SpaceX operations have already drastically reduced populations that return to the same spot year after year, per a study completed by the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program.
Elon Musk just shut down automation for important public safety accounts

Yale columnist shares anger at ‘polite’ and calm pro-life peers | The College Fix

It is not just pro-lifers that drew Nam’s criticism, however. She shared a story of interviewing a high schooler for a summer academic program external to Yale. “One interviewee made a statement about how prejudiced people could be re-educated through logical debates that could convince them that their views were wrong,” she wrote. “I could tell that they genuinely had faith in the power of rational thinking.”

The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex

All of this monopolization was done in a unipolar moment, when just-in-time manufacturing where suppliers kept no inventory on hand was applied to everything, even military stockpiles. This was, in retrospect, insane. Who thinks that having no resiliency is a good strategy for wars? And yet, the U.S. felt so confident in its geopolitical position that the Clinton administration even helped China build its missile program - aimed at the U.S. - with U.S. technology, all to do a favor for the McDonnell Douglas corporation.