Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote
by Engadget
Engadget— X just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named X TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.” By high-quality entertainment, X likely means that one Tucker Carlson video where he’s really impressed by grocery carts in Russia. That’s not a joke. Carlson is featured prominently in the little teaser video....
Fortune—Elon Musk has turned Tesla into a meme stock as he tells Wall Street to value the EV maker like an AI company, top economist says. "The fundraiser, cheerleader, and coach for teams developing real technologies has become a meme-stock carnival barker."
The Guardian—Elon Musk’s battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers. The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missivesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThis battle was never about the removal of a single violent video for Elon Musk – it was always going to turn into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives featuring Musk as the free speech antihero fighting Woke Governments of the World. At least, that...
Reading Eagle—President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go. By AAMER MADHANI (The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked […]