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Tag: Elon Musk

Why there’s no guarantee that Musk’s Twitter will resemble Dorsey’s

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Many folks are saying they’re not going to leave Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition because Musk and Jack Dorsey aren’t different.

April 26, 2022 Culture, Op-eds, Tech

Re: Musk v. Twitter

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A collection of some comments on and reactions to Elon Musk’s attempts to buy Twitter, and related issues.

April 17, 2022 Tech

Free-speech as an instrument of repression

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One of the more eye-opening discussions on Elon Musk’s attempt to take control of Twitter, and the Twitter […]

April 16, 2022 Op-eds, Tech

Disappointing persons of the year 2021

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I’m starting to think that in this day and age, you will but err when you pick individuals […]

December 14, 2021 Op-eds, Science, Tech

‘Real science’

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From ‘The most influential climate science paper of all time’, The Conversation, October 8, 2021 (emphasis added): Manabe, […]

October 12, 2021 Science

Woolly mammoths and a quasi-techbro

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I wrote for The Wire Science about George Church’s idea to repopulate the Arctic tundra with woolly mammoths […]

September 18, 2021 Science

Is ground-based astronomy a space activity?

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An article published on the European Southern Observatory blog on September 10 describes an effort to protect the […]

September 13, 2021 Analysis, Science

Sci-fi past the science

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There’s an interesting remark in the introductory portion of this article by Zeynep Tufekci (emphasis added): At its best, though, […]

January 3, 2020 Culture, Science

Starlink and astronomy

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SpaceX’s Starlink constellation is currently a network of 120+ satellites and which, in the next decade, will expand […]

November 26, 2019 Op-eds, Scicomm

Playing the devil’s advocate on Starlink

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After SpaceX began to launch its Starlink satellite constellation to facilitate global internet coverage, astronomers began complaining that […]

November 15, 2019 Op-eds, Science

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