Elon Musk’s latest acquisition once turned an innocuous trip to the cinema into something more disturbing
Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/VoguePhotograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Voguewalked into TwitterIn 12 years, I gained nothing, while witnessing peers and colleagues at their worst. Oh, the bliss of not turning every little thing into a quip. The delight of dealing with reality in the moment, like a grownup, instead of running to tell teacher about every unpleasant incident.
Social media platforms may rise and fall but unwanted, creepy stalker, boundary-violating behaviour from “nice guys” is clearly – sadly – eternal.Photograph: AP When it comes to tech billionaires, it’s easy to be alarmed by chaos demons such as Musk. But then all you have to do is sit back while they sabotage themselves with their antics.
It’s the self-controlled ones who’re truly worrying, such as Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, who steers icily towards his endgame, never acting out personally, apologising when he makes an error and then recalculating with the uninflected calm of a killer satnav. Quitting Twitter while staying on YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp, all owned by Meta, is hardly some kind of anti-tech statement.
Then there’s Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the withholding daddy of them all. Jobs was an insanely successful, driven guy who was good at being Apple’s co-founder and bad at being a normal, decent human being. Have you read
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