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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#080809'> </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#080809'>I</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#080809'>haven't</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222'> yet read the book "<i>Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley</i>" by Jacob Silverman but after reading the following brief book review by Brian Harrod I intend to: </span><span style='color:#080809'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>===</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif'>>…<span style='color:#080809'>He</span></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222'> raged after his tweets flopped... "<i>I have 100 million followers, and only getting thousands of impressions</i>", </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222'>ElonMusk axed an X engineer after they delivered the harsh truth about why his posts were flopping, a new book claims</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>…</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#080809'>John K Clar</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>k<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>No need to look for reasons for this guy or that guy getting fired from TwitterX. The company was failing. It only had a short time to live. Most of the employees needed to go. That’s all the explanation needed. Had Elon not fired most of the TwitterX employees, we would have no TwitterX at all, and it has become our news source, replacing all mainstream news agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Elon is hated for telling the truth about what must happen in federal government. But he was telling the truth about that, a similar truth to what he told us about Twitter. 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