"I've been beating up on billionaires since you were in short pants," Adams says. "He has been poking the bear here for a long, long time and he doesn't want to talk thoughtfully about it ... He's a bomb thrower of no use to us." Scott Adams: The natural arc of his career is not what I expect from him. But more importantly, back to Mike Moritz, whatever he wrote was wrong.
Dilbert is out of work after his creator made racist remarks. House Republicans are launching an investigation into the toxic train derailment in Ohio. Also, Twitter has cut staff yet again, and prominent Elon-backers are in the mix. Plus, Meta has jumped into the A.I. race at last, sans a chatbot. Kara and Scott are joined by Friend of Pivot Malcolm Harris on his new book, “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.”
You can fins Malcolm on Twitter at @BigMeanInternet and can find his book here.
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