Tim Wallace

“As inane as he looked, it was the best investment of time and money of Musk’s life, his net worth rising $200 billion by the end of 2024, with tens of billions after that and more to come in the future as a loud part of the administration as “efficiency czar,” who would remake the government in his image. That appointment was announced soon after Trump won, in yet another stunt-like manner, as the head of DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—with fellow look-at-me billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy. I quickly dubbed the effort the Department of Grandstanding Edgelords, which, given its undefined power, staff, and efficacy, sounded more like something out of an episode of The Apprentice.”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

“False or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the U.S. election have amassed two billion views on social media platform X this year, according to a report by non-profit group Center for Countering Digital Hate” (CCDH). That”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

“But no laws regulate almost all of it, despite the Biden administration giving it a shrugging try—efforts that are sure to be wiped out under Trump as the rich get richer and the most powerful get more so. A bummer, right? But not unexpected if you have been paying even the slightest amount of attention for a while.”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

“What is more troubling to me is that Musk’s behavior is emblematic of that of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story