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[Link] CYBER: Taking Elon Musk Seriously

Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com

We have to talk about Elon Musk. It’s fun to make fun of him, and whatever he’s doing at Twitter certainly looks like the weird flailing of a man who doesn’t know how to run a company. But let’s take Musk seriously for an hour or so. He is the richest man in the world.

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[Link] Dwayne Johnson appears to withdraw Joe Rogan support after N-word video

Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestling star known as The Rock, has retracted what had seemed his unconditional support for Joe Rogan, amid continued fallout from the controversial podcaster’s use of racist language.

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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.

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[Link] Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Hijack the ‘Unite the Right’ Trial and Turn It Into a Horrible Podcast

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

This is, perhaps, an inevitable byproduct of trying to hold the more than two dozen white nationalist and neo-Nazi figures, plus their organizations, accountable for the violent Unite the Right rally that left one dead, many injured, and traumatized this small college town. Sines v.

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[Link] ‘I had to watch it with my therapist’: when real-life horrors get turned into TV

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The dark new drama The Shrink Next Door tells an almost unbelievable story. Almost, of course, because it actually happened.

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[Link] Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues

Read: 15/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

From his portrayal of a more vulnerable Bond to his cerise suit jacket on the red carpet, Daniel Craig has worked hard to defy expectations of masculinity – so it came as little surprise when the actor revealed he liked to frequent gay bars to avoid the “aggressive dick swinging” of hetero spa

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[Link] We Were With Afghan Soldiers as the Taliban Took Kandahar

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Since the Taliban took control of Kabul earlier this month, a lot of the focus has been on the failures of the U.S.-trained Afghan military—why they seemed to put up little resistance to the Islamist extremists in some of the provinces, and then, finally, in the capital.

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[Link] The Future of Weaponized App Data

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

It’s an old story with a new twist. A top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after someone leaked information about his private life. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill left his post after a Catholic-oriented Substack accused him of being a frequent user of Grindr.

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[Link] Matt Gaetz Has a Podcast Now, and It’s Just As Bad As You’d Expect