The idea of being the X-Rella kind of baffles my mind because it's also like, I feel like it's going to go worse than the attempted rebrands of Facebook into meta or Google into alphabet. Even his sycophants are kind of like, why would I call this website X? Also when none of the other stuff exists, right? At least with Facebook and with Google, like they did this rebrand because they had other subsidiaries and operations that they had; Twitter is just Twitter. The way to understand that is in another world, if there were more competent capitalists at the helm of the ship, I'm sure they would try and still fail to create
Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t deliver on their marketing promises, and how that’s once again being shown in the hype around AI.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is a freelance journalist, co-host of This Machine Kills, and guest columnist at The Nation. You can follow Ed on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.
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