Can anyone stop President Musk?

date linked: 4 February 2025

source: link to article, from theverge.com

I’m teaching a social media research methods class this semester, and I’m pretty sure I need to bring this article up in this week’s class.

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Love to be living in a world where a blog I read for tech commentary—and that is more reserved than I would be on a lot of that commentary—is running articles describing current goings-on as “a coup in progress.”

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It’s obviously not the most worrying thing about it, but a very specific tragedy about Musk’s DOGE nonsense is that it may end up being the largest (indirect) influence Homestar Runner has had on the world.

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