This Week in Elon: smashing the irony button
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#60FQB)
Image: Dami Lee
Elon Musk may want out of his deal with Twitter, but he has some ideas about how to run the bird app, and they involve layoffs, subscriptions, and... a sarcasm button. Musk turned up on Thursday for a video chat with Twitter employees, and the employees promptly leaked its contents to reporters - including my Verge colleague Alex Heath and The New York Times' Mike Isaac, who ran a liveblog of the event while it was happening. An apparent digression about aliens notwithstanding, the meeting's results were fairly predictable but illuminating for anybody who's spent too much time obsessing over ominous phrases like authenticate all humans" in the past few months.
In Thursday's meeting, Musk had the energy of a rich MMORPG fan who buys a...