At Tesla and SpaceX, engineers often joked that the only laws they respected were those of physics and Musk’s own demands. At Twitter, the Blue team got a crash course. In the same meeting, Musk wanted to review the descriptions of Twitter Blue that would be used online and in the Apple App store. “It should be: ‘Rocket to the top of replies, mentions, search, and topics,’ ” he said, reading through some of that copy. “Remove the comma before ‘and.’ I find it troubling.” Crawford, a fan of the Oxford comma, tried to defend it. “I find the opposite with commas,” she said with a smile. Some in
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