From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Snidely pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > Saturday, Boron Elgar quipped:   
   >> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:32:40 -0800, Snidely    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Boron Elgar asserted that:   
   >>>> Please- any of you still on FB or X really need to kick them to the   
   >>>> curb.   
   >>>   
   >>> The Donald hasn't saved Tik Tok yet.   
   >>>   
   >>> /dps   
   >>   
   >> I admit that I have never really appreciated Tik Tok, but fully   
   >> understand its appeal. Nevertheless, it is owned by ByteDance, and I   
   >> ain't gonna fund 'em.   
   >>   
   >> Elon and Zuckie ain't gonna get my screen time, either. I wonder how   
   >> bad Reddit is in the undergrowth....   
   >   
   > I've seen articles suggesting that many Silicon Valley heads have swiveled to   
   > the right, but I haven't tracked down who is or isn't.  I was surprised to   
   > see Amazon on the list of big gifters to the Donald'c coronation plans,   
   > because Bezos seemed very critical of Trump  the previous time around, and   
   > bought the Washington Post to help with that.   
      
   There was some '30s book critical of the rise of middle management   
   which has apparently become something that influenced Musk.  A British   
   author, IIRC, who saw the Nazi system as the way to avoid that.  A lot   
   of bad predictions and analysis modern economists disagree with, but it   
   rang a bell with Elon.  I need to re-find the article about that.   
      
   /dps   
      
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