Hits: 3 Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers. In the middle of a workday, Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., …
Saluting in Solidarity
Hits: 2 As employees in tech face layoffs, an emoji meets its moment. When Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in late October carrying a sink, it seemed like that image might be the lasting one to exemplify the unfolding …
Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative
Hits: 4 Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.” What happens when they move in? It’s one thing to hope for a better community online, and another, very different one, to build it. Just ask the users …
On Twitter, Who Needs a Check Mark When You Can Have a Rat?
Hits: 4 Elon Musk wants Twitter users to pay to be verified. An artist offers a wry alternative. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, wants $8. After buying Twitter in a $44 billion deal just last week, he …
Elon Musk Has the World’s Strangest Social Calendar
Hits: 18 When a snapshot of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell surfaced on social media in 2020, the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive took to Twitter — as he so often does — to explain why he had been photographed …
Elon Musk: The Maureen Dowd Interview
Hits: 78 So how do the King of Mars, his Galactic Princess and their newborn son, X Æ A-Xii, spend a Saturday night holed up in their Los Angeles pad? A little anime — lately it’s been “Death Note” and …
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Suit Is Like a Tuxedo for the Starship Enterprise
Hits: 50 Michael Bay, the director of the 1998 cosmic disaster movie “Armageddon,” once gave an interview discussing the worst crisis in the making of the film. “Three weeks before our first day of principal photography, I went to see …