
Eric Zimmerman
Team Human
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Elon Musk and Prince Alwaleed Bintalal's Purchase of Twitter
Authoritarians are winning elections in Europe by positioning themselves as our last best chance to reclaim our humanity from those attempting to go meta on the rest of us through technology or financialization. Ironically, they lift some of the very same language about humanism and self-somberty that we hear from the sense-makers and meta-modernists they mean to oppose. The vision is less for Twitter to be a social network or even a company, but a new operating system for society, sometimes dubbed Blue Sky.
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