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> Last week, we learned a little more about Musk’s motivations for buying Twitter [ . . ] “It promised to be a glorious year, if only Musk could leave well enough alone,” Isaacson writes. “But that was not in his nature.” [ . . . ] decided to take over Twitter because it was “an addictive playground” and owning it would make him “king of the school yard.”

> Musk told Isaacson that there was another aspect to his desire to acquire Twitter: his concern that American society had become infected with a “woke mind virus,” [ . . . ] Unless it was stopped, he said, civilization would “never become multiplanetary.”

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