Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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Everyone ends up at Coffee Shop Cool in Kabukicho. Company owners, yakuza, sex workers, students, hosts, even a farmer share one 40-seat room. A regular reported watching yakuza executives negotiate turf at the next table, and a sex-shop job interview at another.

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The Internet was a huge business opportunity for product but I think AI might be the opposite: products are so easy that there are fewer business opportunities (harder to reach customers, lower prices, more competition, no defensible moats)

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Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

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