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Richard Lawler

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    Another top Twitter executive confirmed out now that Elon Musk is in charge.

    We’re correcting our report from Thursday night that included Twitter Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette among the executives fired by Elon Musk as he took over, along with the CEO, CFO, general counsel, and policy chief.

    This morning Personette tweeted she resigned on October 28th from the position she’d held since June of last year, leading its advertising business and brand partnerships.

    Platformer editor Casey Newton indicates she may not be the last executive leaving, either, as head of product Jay Sullivan and Redbird manager Nick Cald’s Twitter bios suddenly changed.

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    Richard Lawler
    Green light.

    As it turns out, there is news outside of the Elon Musk Show. Today we’re expecting another burst of quarterly earnings results that will include Match, Pfizer, SiriusXM, Uber, and EA.

    Sony’s results indicate fewer people are spending more money on its PlayStation subscriptions.

    Creatives are wrestling with Pantone’s new business model for Photoshop that’s paywalling colors.

    Allison Johnson just updated our advice guide on the best phone to buy right now.

    Apple is losing two more key executives, including the vp in charge of its online store and CIO Mary Demby.

    Peacock is launching a Friday the 13th prequel series created by Bryan Fuller.

    And Netflix acquired Cozy Grove and Alphabear game developer Spry Fox.

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    Richard Lawler
    The MCU continues to mine the liminal space between memes and canon.

    The character Wonder Man in Marvel’s comics was the source of the brain patterns used to build the android Vision.

    Separately, the TV show Wandavision provided the source material for endless Vishawn memes, and these two things are apparently nearing a crossover point.

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    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    This 5 G NASCAR pass was born on the Nintendo Gamecube.

    Cup Series driver Ross Chastain jumped from 10th to 5th with this ridiculous wall-riding move that he perfected playing NASCAR 2005 on Nintendo Gamecube.

    You can also watch an angle recorded from the stands or dig into physics explanations about how he pulled off the 5 G maneuver.

    Not everyone was happy to see it — now-unbanned driver Kyle Larson called the stunt a “bad look” for the sport even though he unsuccessfully tried the same thing during a race last year.

    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    Twitter now has one director: Elon Musk.

    Highlighting the 8-K published earlier this morning one more time, it confirms the terms of Elon’s Twitter takeover, which are as they were negotiated in April before Musk tried to get out of the arrangement.

    Finally, it confirms that instead of joining Twitter’s board of directors, Elon Musk is now their sole replacement.

    On October 27, 2022, and as a result of the consummation of the Merger, Mr. Musk became the sole director of Twitter. In accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, effective as of the effective time of the Merger, the following persons, who were directors of Twitter prior to the effective time of the Merger, are no longer directors of Twitter: Bret Taylor, Parag Agrawal, Omid Kordestani, David Rosenblatt, Martha Lane Fox, Patrick Pichette, Egon Durban, Fei-Fei Li and Mimi Alemayehou.

    Twitter, Inc. FORM 8-K

    [www.sec.gov]

    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    Green light.

    Elon Musk actually acquiring Twitter wasn’t the end of the story (if you’re also not sure it really happened, here’s the 8-K):

    There were the fake fired employees.

    The (still-pending) rumors about actual mass firings.

    One noticeable change happened right away, but you had to be logged out to see it.

    A small council.

    And the $19.99 per month verification plan.

    And for some non-Elon news, it’s Halloween, so of course, there’s an accompanying Google Doodle.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    “Building a community is really different from building a rocket...”

    “...because rockets don’t talk back.”

    As you enjoy your weekend, don’t miss this episode of The Vergecast covering exactly what Elon Musk has gotten himself into now that he owns Twitter.

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    Richard Lawler
    “Actually, just shred it.”

    So how are things going for Twitter’s real engineers on day one of the new administration? Uh, you tell me. (Yes, this actually happened.)

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    Richard Lawler
    Let’s get you up to speed.

    Yes, Elon Musk owns Twitter. No, he has not laid off an entire team of data engineers, including one “Rahul Ligma.”

    David Pierce explains what we actually know so far.

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