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 My Nest thermostat pushed a feature ad at me from my hallway wall. I had to navigate a wonky thermostat UI to dismiss a billboard in my own home. 
 Khrushchev: “If the people believe there’s an imaginary river… you don’t tell them there’s no river… You build an imaginary bridge” https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1709640814794604659?s=12

#Tories now tearing down imaginary walls

https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/111/180/896/042/817/423/original/0130e48ed9936c7a.jpg 
 ‘#Twitter is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud… less than a month after the company said it would expand the team’ https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-x-cuts-half-of-election-integrity-team-after-promising-to-expand-it

Musk is a national security threat 
 Elmo: “How can [Gates] say [he’s] passionate about fighting climate change and then” short Tesla? “It’s pure hypocrisy” https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/10/bill-gates-and-elon-musk-an-excerpt-from-walter-isaacson-musk-bio.html

Not the Texas / Putin / MbS climate traitor whose whole shtick was a con, calling the kettle a hypocrite :D

It’s all personal, he was butthurt Gates bet on him failing