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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Supreme Court Considers What May Be the Final Blow to the Voting Rights Act</strong> - Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor warn of what’s really at stake in Merrill v. Milligan. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-considers-what-may-be-the-final-blow-to-the-voting-rights-act">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Putin’s Draft Order Has Inspired a Russian Exodus</strong> - “I’ve never seen anything like this,” an advocate said. “It feels like a sort of popular resistance.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/putins-draft-order-has-inspired-a-russian-exodus">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Ongoing Electoral Efforts to Up the Anti-Democratic Ante</strong> - Republican-led legislatures and right-wing activists alike are making things more difficult for election officials. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-ongoing-electoral-efforts-to-up-the-anti-democratic-ante">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Netflix’s “Mo” Evades the Usual Representation Traps</strong> - A lesser show might have tried to make the titular character a bit more likable, or, perhaps, implanted within him a desire to explain his culture to the rest of the world. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-netflixs-mo-evades-the-usual-representation-traps">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will Abortion Be Enough to Save Democrats in November?</strong> - With Republicans strong on the economy, it’s not clear how much any other issue will matter. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/will-abortion-be-enough-to-save-democrats-in-november">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Tár demands — and deserves — your full attention</strong> -
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Cate Blanchett stars as an orchestra conductor in <em>Tár</em>. | Focus Features
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Cate Blanchett stars in a tightly wound masterpiece that slices through class anxiety and power.
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To watch <em>Tár</em> properly requires mental recursion. The surface of each scene is perfectly legible, but the full import of what you’re watching is elusive till the end of the scene, or even the sequence. The end of the film recasts everything that’s come before it. It’s like Kierkegaard’s old saw, embodied: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Yet <em>Tár</em> is anything but clichéd. Not to be hyperbolic, but it might be perfect.
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The titular <em>Tár</em> is Lydia Tár, a fearsome orchestra conductor fiercely played by Cate Blanchett. (She’s a fictional character, but you can sense a dozen real ones just beneath her skin.) She’s fought her way to the top of the profession, which in this particular case resides on the podium in front of the Berlin Philharmonic. She lives in a sleek modernist flat with her wife, Sharon (Nina Hoss), and their daughter, and she spends her days on the most elite circuit imaginable: chatting with New Yorker writers in front of packed crowds; rehearsing the orchestra in advance of a new season and upcoming recordings; prepping for the publication of her memoirs. Her devoted assistant Francesca (Noémie Merlant) by her side, she’s always on a plane or waving a baton or greeting admirers.
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The world she’s constructed for herself is like a perfectly tuned violin, cooly precise. For a stringed instrument to play in tune with its orchestral neighbors, each string must be pulled to exactly the right tension — no more, no less. Too loose and you can’t draw a bow across them. Too tight, and they can snap. And sometimes (I speak from experience here) that snap can cause the musician serious injury, leaving welts or deep lacerations.
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<img alt="Cate Blanchett as a conductor in front of an orchestra." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5rGmMASHdzwMxBztGNOyqAd34fE=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24078263/038_166A_3_PUC.SUB.02.09851_C1_UR.jpg"/> <cite>Focus Features</cite>
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Lydia Tár conducts an orchestra, and tries to keep her life as tightly wound.
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Lydia, we slowly come to realize, reached this position of influence in a world in which imitating the lives of the men who came before her seemed like the best way to make it to the top and stay there. Her personal relationships are built atop their professional benefit to her, and her friends know it. Even her more altruistic-looking efforts — commissioning works from female composers, creating opportunities for women to enter the profession — are mainly useful insofar as they promote her, Lydia Tár, and secure her place in history. Her past is littered with not-quite-appropriate relationships with less powerful people, discarded when they pose a threat to her. <em>Tár</em> is the tale of a string being stretched so tightly that the bridge starts to bow and the whole thing threatens to give way.
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And at its root is a deep class anxiety. The arc of <em>Tár</em> is of a woman terrified, in an almost subconscious way, that the ground beneath the ladder she’s climbed is going to prove shaky. Not quicksand so much as mud — the kind that spatters and cakes on your clean clothes and skin.
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The most apt <a href="https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/women-on-fire-venice-2022/">comparison I’ve read</a> for Lydia was Daniel Plainview, the antihero of <em>There Will Be Blood</em>, a vicious oil tycoon with a finely tuned sense of resentment toward the world wherever it thwarts him. He finds himself, at the end of his days, living in a palatial estate (complete with bowling alley, site of the famous “I drink your milkshake” scene), alone and miserable.
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Their lives aren’t perfect matches, but the same principle applies: that they’ve clawed their way up a mountain composed of dead and wounded bodies, and perch atop it with a shiny, composed facade. It’s only through cracks in the veneer that you can glimpse the real person. They are ruthless and bitter and brilliant. Their teeth are always on edge, their jaws always grinding. That Lydia is a woman only adds to it all; she’s not meant to have gotten here in the first place.
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When it all starts coming apart, then, so does Lydia. <em>Tár </em>tackles the rough but rewarding challenge of portraying the ways that powerful people are sometimes taken down by things that, in a strict sense, aren’t really their fault. The young woman of consenting age whose relationship with Lydia went south, and then found her career heading down the tubes, too. The male graduate student angered by Lydia’s challenge to his career choices, and the video edited to make her look worse than she is. The “cancellation” driven by protesters who don’t really understand what they’re protesting against, but who aren’t exactly wrong about Lydia’s behavior, either. We aren’t asked to sympathize with Lydia, ever; <em>Tár</em> doesn’t think she’s the good guy. (This is not a tiresome movie about how “#MeToo has gone too far” or about the dangers of social media.) But there’s not exactly a villain in this world, either. It’s a bracing, dazzling tightrope walk, and if you feel unsettled at the end, well, then it’s done what it set out to do.
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After a (much too) long absence from cinema, it’s a relief that Todd Field — whose previous films <em>In the Bedroom</em> and <em>Little Children</em> are devastating examinations of what happens when perfectly constructed realities begin to cave in — has tuned his themes so brilliantly. You can’t just half-watch <em>Tár</em>, your mind drifting or your phone in your hand. It demands your full attention. That’s the mark of good art, but it’s a discipline so many contemporary films aren’t willing to demand from audiences.
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Which is what makes <em>Tár</em> so incredible. Its bookending scenes, beginning and end, are the subtlest of indicators of what Lydia must deign to do to keep herself afloat; blink, and you’ll miss it. It’s not an “easy” film, exactly. But it so richly rewards the careful viewer that you immediately want to see it again, to see what you couldn’t have known from the start.
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And if you’re honest with yourself, you don’t just watch <em>Tár</em>; it watches you, too.
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<li><strong>A Twitter trial would expose Elon Musk to scrutiny. Buying Twitter might help him avoid it.</strong> -
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The billionaire might buy Twitter after all — and for once not get his way.
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Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter. Then he didn’t. Now, according to a letter he sent to Twitter earlier this week, he does. Yes, again.
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The news in this months-long saga came the very week<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/27/elon-musk-deposition-twitter-takeover-deal">he was expected to be deposed</a><strong> </strong>in in a lawsuit Twitter filed against Musk for breach of contract. The exact reasons for his 180 are unknown, but experts told Vox that it shows the Delaware Court of Chancery’s muscle in potentially reining in the richest person in the world’s disregard for convention in his business dealings.
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After <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-04/musk-proposes-to-proceed-with-twitter-deal-at-54-20-a-share">Bloomberg first reported</a> on Musk’s renewed offer to Twitter, an SEC filing revealed that Musk <a href="https://sec.report/Document/0001104659-22-105787/">sent Twitter a letter</a> on Monday night saying he wants to buy the company at the price he originally offered: $54.20 per share, amounting to a deal worth around $44 billion. That’s higher than Twitter’s Wednesday stock price.
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On Thursday, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23126733-letter-decision-granting-stay">court documents show</a>, the two parties reached an agreement to close the deal, and, at Musk’s request, the Court of Chancery stayed the trial. If the two fail to complete the sale by October 28, however, a new trial date could be scheduled for November.
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Those closely watching the case say the billionaire’s sudden, unexpected willingness to close a deal that he previously soured on could represent a meaningful break in the Elon Musk narrative — that, at a moment when everyone is watching, he might not get his way. Perhaps that’s why his offer contains one important stipulation: The letter notes that Musk will close the deal “provided that the Delaware Chancery Court enter an immediate stay of the action” and “adjourn the trial.”
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Musk has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/19/tesla-and-elon-musk-lawsuits-overview.html">gotten into legal trouble</a> before, but he has a track record of coming away from it with victories or minor fines — and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23207361/elon-musk-twitter-narrative-billionaire">hardly a ding to his public image</a>. A Twitter trial, should it continue, could be a watershed moment for how the public sees Musk: no longer as the genius, environment-loving tech innovator, but increasingly as a rich man who breaks promises when it benefits him.
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Through the ups and downs of the Twitter deal, Musk has faced the court of public opinion, and he’s not coming away unscathed. According to a <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2022/06/23/elon-musk-favorability/">Morning Consult poll from June</a>, US voters have a less favorable impression of him than they did in April, with unfavorability among Democrats jumping to 59 percent. Musk may avoid more reputational damage if the lawsuit ends quickly, because this trial would mark the most high-profile attempt at holding him accountable in the public eye.
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As <a href="https://thechancerydaily.substack.com/p/twitter-v-musk-spotlight">explained by the Chancery Daily</a>, which has been providing real-time updates and context on the lawsuit through its Twitter account, “The letter doesn’t say much, it doesn’t do much, but it does mean something. It means that Elon’s mindset has changed.”
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Musk may not be above the rules after all
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Even if those watching the case take everything Musk does or says with a grain of salt, the letter he sent to Twitter could still be read as a rare public capitulation from a powerful man with a track record of mostly getting his way.
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Take his multiple run-ins with the SEC. Musk first locked horns with the agency a few years ago when it <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/27/17911568/elon-musk-tesla-sec-tweet-lawsuit-private">sued him for making false and misleading tweets</a> about having secured funding to take Tesla private, making share prices jump. Musk is Tesla’s largest individual shareholder. He and Tesla each paid a $20 million fine — still pretty tame for a billionaire — and Musk agreed to have tweets regarding his companies reviewed internally, a leash Musk chafes at and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-narrow-sec-consent-decree-end-pre-approval-tweets-2022-09-28/">continues to fight</a>. He has <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-tweets-by-teslas-elon-musk-have-moved-markets-2021-11-08/">continued to tweet about other stocks</a>, like Gamestop and Dogecoin, moving markets. The SEC is also currently investigating Musk for <a href="https://www.protocol.com/sec-elon-musk-twitter-shares">the late disclosure of the Twitter shares</a> he began buying early this year, a move that may have saved him over $143 million.
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There is “definitely some frustration within the four walls at the SEC with trying to get Musk to follow the rules,” according to Josh White, a professor of finance at Vanderbilt University who was formerly an economist at the agency. The SEC has sometimes been <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/secs-efforts-to-rein-in-elon-musks-tweets-have-been-largely-toothless-11622672563">accused of being toothless</a>, though it has recently been ramping up enforcement, including levying a <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/3/23384955/kim-kardashian-crypto-ethereum-max-emax-sec">$1.26 million fine on Kim Kardashian</a> for failing to properly disclose a crypto-touting ad.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/12/21255812/elon-musk-tesla-factory-coronavirus-reopening">Musk also flouted public health orders</a> by reopening his Tesla factory in May 2020, before officials deemed it safe to do so. He didn’t face any consequences; in fact, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/business/tesla-plant-reopening/index.html">county officials signed off on the move</a> a few days later.
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Musk has been involved in other public skirmishes before. In 2018, Musk infamously called a British cave diver involved in the rescue of a Thai youth soccer team <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593">a “pedo guy” on Twitter</a>. The diver lost his defamation suit against Musk.
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Earlier this year, the Delaware Court of Chancery also <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/tesla-s-musk-defeats-investor-claims-solarcity-deal-was-improper">ruled in favor of Musk</a> in a lawsuit where Tesla directors accused the CEO of pressuring them to buy SolarCity, a solar energy company Musk helped found, at an inflated price. The <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnMLipton/status/1530339323387777028">plaintiffs are currently appealing that ruling</a> in the Delaware Supreme Court.
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The odds against Musk
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The Twitter saga is only the latest controversy in which Musk has found himself. Twitter sued Musk in July, asking the court to force him to follow through with a $44 billion acquisition offer he made the company in April and rescinded months later.
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Since then, there’s been a flurry of speculation around whether the social media platform could really win against the billionaire. Legal experts have said <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-has-legal-edge-deal-dispute-with-musk-2022-07-09/">Twitter had a stronger case</a>, but what would happen if <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-14/what-if-musk-is-ordered-to-do-twitter-deal-and-he-just-says-no">Musk simply didn’t comply</a> with a court order? The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has a history of publicly undermining regulators and authorities, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/1102327987/elon-musk-sec-tweets-lawsuit-power">most notably the Securities and Exchange Commission</a>. In an interview the day after he offered to buy Twitter, he called <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-us-sec-bastards-forced-settlement-over-tesla-tweets-2022-04-14/">SEC regulators “bastards.”</a>
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According to Ann Lipton, a law professor at Tulane University and former corporate litigator, Musk’s case was always weak. (Musk refused to follow through on the purchase of the social media platform on the premise that it had misled him about the number of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/musk-says-he-s-terminating-44-billion-deal-to-buy-twitter">spam bots</a>. Twitter has said he reneged because of a market downturn that affected both Twitter and Tesla stock prices.)
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“Every day that passes in this court, it’s been clear that [Musk’s case] is weaker. He’s lost a lot of rulings with the chancellor,” she told Vox.
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The Delaware Court of Chancery has a history of efficiently ruling on corporate disputes; many businesses, including Twitter, incorporate in Delaware because of its <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/corporate-governance/502487/">famously pro-business laws</a>. Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the court’s chancellor, has denied most of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/delaware-judge-orders-twitter-turn-over-some-data-musk-court-ruling-2022-08-25/">Musk’s broad requests for Twitter data</a> so far. In September, Musk’s lawyer also argued that <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-lawyer-urges-judge-delay-twitter-trial-due-whistleblower-2022-09-06/">the trial should be delayed</a> till November. That request was denied, too. Then, hundreds of Musk’s personal text messages were released in court documents made public last week.
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It’s possible that Musk’s text messages played some role in his decision to revive his offer to buy Twitter. The texts revealed the ease with which Musk and other wealthy investors — including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who committed $1 billion to the deal — chatted about coming up with the billions of dollars required for the purchase. In the texts, some of the nation’s wealthiest and most influential people showed excitement at the idea of Musk leading Twitter and turning it into the ultimate platform for uncensored speech.
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“Especially after the text messages came to light, it was sort of embarrassing for everyone,” Lipton told Vox. “If he was afraid that those investors would get cold feet, that would mean that he could end up buying the company, but with less investor support.”
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Initially, Musk outwardly behaved as if <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23207361/elon-musk-twitter-narrative-billionaire">he was one step ahead of Twitter</a>, even <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1546344529460174849">tweeting a meme</a> implying that the lawsuit would backfire and force Twitter to reveal the truth about its bot problem in court. Proof that Twitter lied about the degree of its bot problem hasn’t surfaced. On the other hand, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/1/23381257/elon-musk-texts-twitter-billionaires">Musk’s text messages</a> indicate that in April, before he agreed to buy Twitter, he was already <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-text-messages-revealed-in-twitter-dispute-175049645.html">aware of the issue of fake accounts</a>. That public revelation deflates his argument that he was misled about Twitter’s bots before agreeing to acquire the platform.
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With his latest offer, Musk isn’t trying to negotiate a lower price — an option <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-05-16/elon-musk-hints-at-negotiating-down-price-on-twitter-purchase">he’s previously hinted at wanting</a>. Instead, it could be an indication that he is aware of where things stand: His case is weaker than Twitter’s, and Twitter is unlikely to settle at a lower price.
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There’s also Twitter’s value to think about. If Musk began to think the court would force him to be the site’s new owner, Lipton said, dragging the case out could further hurt the price. When Twitter accepted Musk’s offer on April 25, its price was about $51 per share. It <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/business/twitter-stock-elon-musk.html">fell by 11 percent</a> on the day Musk announced he was pulling out. Wednesday morning, before it was revealed that Musk wanted to buy again, it was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/TWTR/historical-prices">trading around $42.70</a>.
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“He’d end up with a weaker company than he had before,” Lipton said.
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So if Musk believes he doesn’t have a good chance of winning, agreeing to buy Twitter for $44 billion before <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-revenue-falls-weakening-digital-ad-market-2022-07-22/">any more damage is done to the company</a> might just be the best deal he can get.
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The winners and losers, if Musk buys Twitter
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If Musk ends up buying Twitter, its shareholders will win big, according to White. (Twitter is currently a publicly traded company; Musk wants to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/14/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter-for-54point20-a-share-saying-it-needs-to-be-transformed-as-private-company.html">take it private</a>. If Twitter agrees to his proposal, it will also resurface many of the questions about <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/4/23387396/musk-twitter-new-deal-44-billion">what else he will do with the social media platform</a>.)
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White says that Musk would be overpaying for Twitter; he estimates that, based on current market conditions, if the deal fell through, the company’s stock would be trading between $10 and $20 per share rather than above $50.
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It would likely be a very different story for Twitter users and employees. The global sentiment around <a href="https://sites.tufts.edu/digitalplanet/the-elon-musk-twitter-takeover-saga-a-multi-country-sentiment-analysis-of-twitter-users/">Musk buying Twitter has been mostly negative</a>, according to a study by Tufts University analyzing sentiments expressed by Twitter users regarding the acquisition. In the US, according to the study, there was a big spike in sadness and anger when Twitter accepted Musk’s bid on April 25. When Musk claimed the deal was on hold in mid-May, there was a rise in angry tweets. Progressives are also already worried about the possibility of a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/musk-twitter-offer-accepted-00060301">Musk-led Twitter allowing former President Donald Trump</a> back on the platform after he was suspended in January 2021.
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Given the high price Musk is paying for Twitter, he will likely want to quickly earn a return on his investment, White continued. The text messages released last Thursday showed Musk telling Twitter board chair Bret Taylor that his “biggest concern was headcount and expense growth.” In a <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23171541/leaked-transcript-elon-musk-first-meeting-twitter-employees">June meeting with Twitter employees</a>, Musk didn’t deny the possibility of layoffs once he took the reins.
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Tesla shareholders probably aren’t thrilled either. Tesla’s stock price fell after Musk’s intention to buy Twitter after all became public. White said he believes that it declined in part due to uncertainty over how much more stock Musk might have to sell to come up with $44 billion. In August, he sold <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/business/dealbook/elon-musk-tesla-twitter.html">almost $7 billion worth of his Tesla shares</a>.
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Shareholders might also fear Musk’s ability to lead yet another company on top of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and the Boring Company. “Every day or every hour he spends working on Twitter — which he will have to, it’s a huge investment for him — that’s one less hour he would spend on Tesla,” White said.
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Musk’s unpredictable style and tendency to weigh in on the issues of the day in an inflammatory manner — such as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126714896/elon-musk-ukraine-peace-plan-zelenskyy">the Ukraine-Russia war</a> — can also create fallout for the businesses he runs. In June, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23178616/elon-musk-twitter-spacex-tesla-employees-fired-letter">SpaceX employees wrote a letter to company executives</a> voicing their concerns about how their CEO’s public behavior reflected on them. Several employees involved in writing the letter were fired.
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What happens next
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As of October 6, the trial is on pause. Twitter and Musk have agreed to close the deal, but given how tumultuous the acquisition has been, Twitter was likely careful not to agree too hastily.
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“Twitter’s going to want some kind of hard commitment from him that will prevent him from backing out — maybe a court order of some kind,” said Lipton.
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There might also be important details that the public has no idea about. “We don’t see everything,” said Donna Hitscherich, a professor of finance at Columbia Business School. “It ain’t over till it’s over. I think that’s the tagline for this whole thing. [Mergers and acquisitions] deals are complicated under the best of circumstances, and this one added some twists and turns.”
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Whatever the outcome, in the face of his history of avoiding accountability, the possibility of Musk facing consequences this time is meaningful. If he ends up buying Twitter, that would be a win for the courts and the rule of law, White said.
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“As a society, we often view wealth as maybe being above the law,” he noted. Musk might have the resources to hire the best lawyers in the field, but the Court of Chancery’s powers are nothing to scoff at. It can <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/business/technology/elon-musk-twitter-delaware-court-20221003.html">seize some of Musk’s assets</a> — such as his Tesla shares — if he doesn’t comply with a court order.
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“I think this is him conceding defeat,” Lipton said. “And I think he’s doing it in recognition that the law was just not going to go his way.”
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<em><strong>Update, October 6, 6:45 pm: </strong></em><em>This story was originally published on October 5, and has been updated to indicate that Twitter and Musk have agreed to a deal, and that the court has stayed the trial. </em>
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<li><strong>Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter again, spam bots and all</strong> -
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The world’s richest man has a $44 billion change of heart. (Maybe.)
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Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Again.
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The world’s richest man has told Twitter that he’d like to move forward with the deal he first agreed to in April: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-04/elon-musk-proposes-to-proceed-with-twitter-deal-at-54-20-a-share-twtr">He wants to pay $54.20 a share for the messaging service</a>.
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The difference between now and last spring, of course, is that in the interim Musk tried to walk away from his signed contract to buy Twitter. And that Twitter sued him to try to enforce that deal, and that the two sides are currently in court preparing for a trial that is scheduled to start October 17 — less than two weeks from now.
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What changed? We don’t know yet. We do know that Musk is at best unpredictable and that we shouldn’t take anything he says or does at face value. Even if the two sides met in Delaware court on Tuesday to discuss the proposal, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal.html">as the New York Times has reported</a>, it doesn’t mean it will go through or that he won’t have another reversal at some point.
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Here, for the record, is Musk’s letter to Twitter, pledging to agree to the deal he was previously trying get out of, as long as the planned trial comes to a halt.
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“Gentlemen?”<br/><br/>Did we revert a century or what lol smh<br/><br/>We got the letter from Musk to Twitter via SEC. <br/><br/>In short: “let’s call the whole thing off” <a href="https://t.co/HRkLEZsqU1">pic.twitter.com/HRkLEZsqU1</a>
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— The Chancery Daily (<span class="citation" data-cites="chancery_daily">@chancery_daily</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/chancery_daily/status/1577377535255613442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a>
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In the meantime, let’s briefly recap how we got here, and discuss the challenges Musk will face if he actually does end up owning Twitter.
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The tl;dr backstory: Last spring, Musk, one of Twitter’s most prolific users, accumulated a 9 percent stake in Twitter but said he wasn’t planning on acquiring the service. Then he agreed to join the company’s board, then decided he didn’t want to do that, and then announced that he wanted to buy Twitter. The company first rejected his offer and then, after looking around for a better alternative, agreed to his terms.
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Within weeks of that announcement, though, the market for tech stocks began sliding, as did the value of Tesla shares — Musk’s primary source of wealth. Then Musk, who had announced that one of his goals in acquiring Twitter was to rid it of bots he felt plagued the service, began complaining that Twitter might have too many bots and that the deal “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/business/elon-musk-twitter.html#:~:text=the%20main%20story-,Elon%20Musk%20says%20Twitter%20deal%20'cannot%20move%20forward'%20without%20more,on%20the%20social%20media%20site.&amp;text=As%20a%20subscriber%2C%20you%20have,articles%20to%20give%20each%20month.">couldn’t move forward</a>” until he got more data about that. In July, Musk formally announced that he wanted out of the deal, and then <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/12/twitter-sues-elon-musk-to-enforce-original-merger-agreement.html">Twitter sued him for breach of contract</a>.
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The fact that Twitter was trying to force Musk to buy a company that originally didn’t want him as an owner, coupled with the fact that most legal experts believed that Musk had a poor legal case, led to a conventional wisdom among tech observers: At some point, Musk would settle with Twitter, pay some kind of multibillion-dollar penalty, and walk away.
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The current news wipes away that possibility, for now. So we’re back to the question we started asking back in April: <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23041717/twitter-musk-business-plan-peter-kafka-column">What will Musk do with Twitter if he actually owns it?</a>
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Remember, the reason Twitter was available for purchase in the first place is that the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23025978/elon-musk-twitter-trump-free-speech-business-facebook-youtube">messaging service seems very important</a> to at least a slice of its 238 million active users, but has a <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/4/14/23024962/elon-musk-twitter-43-billion-private-analysis">business that’s nowhere near as big or valuable as, say, Meta’s</a>.
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So in order to change that — and to make Twitter worth at least as much as the $44 billion Musk would shell out to own the company — Musk would face major challenges: He’d need to find a way to increase its user base, cut costs, and<em> </em>generate more revenue.
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But it became clear, almost immediately, that Musk didn’t have much more than a hunch about what he would do with Twitter if he owned it. An <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/technology/elon-musk-twitter-pitch-deck.html">early proposal</a> he floated to prospective investors last spring included entirely fanciful notions, like finding another 750 million users within a few years.
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On the one hand: You should definitely take Elon Musk’s Twitter plans seriously and literally.<br/><br/>On the other hand: Elon Musk says he’s going to increase Twitter’s user base from 217 million to 931 million. So maybe not so much.
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— Peter Kafka (<span class="citation" data-cites="pkafka">@pkafka</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1524103561432469506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2022</a>
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And the release last week of <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/1/23381257/elon-musk-texts-twitter-billionaires">text messages Musk received and sent last spring</a> reinforced the notion that Musk, along with some of his richest superfans, wasn’t sure exactly how Musk would do all of this — just that they were sure that a man who pioneered electric cars and sent rockets into space and then landed them back on earth could easily <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-musk-texts-twitter-trial-jack-dorsey/671619/">solve Twitter</a>.
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Now — maybe — we’ll get a chance to see if they were right, after all.
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<em><strong>Update, October 6, 6 pm ET: </strong></em><em>The judge presiding over Twitter and Elon Musk’s upcoming trial, originally scheduled for October 17, has </em><a href="https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=338820"><em>delayed its start until October 28</em></a><em>. The judge warned that if Musk and Twitter do not work out a deal by then, the trial will be rescheduled for November. </em>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Warner, Starc help Australia sweep series against West Indies</strong> - David Warner’s stroke-filled 75 helped Australia post 178/7; Mitchell Starc’s career-best figures of 4 for 20 restrcited the West Indies to 147/8</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kisan Swaraj Sammelan to be held in Mysuru in November</strong> - More than 1,000 people from 20 States will participate in it</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Colleges in Kerala to be urged extra caution in selection of buses for excursions</strong> - The Palakkad accident has triggered debate over whether students exercised disproportionate say in the selection of buses, because of which those with excessively illuminated dancefloor-like interiors and high-decibel sound systems were often engaged for tours</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Judge delays Musk/Twitter trial, gives them three weeks to complete merger [Updated]</strong> - Musk asked judge to cancel trial, claiming Twitter won’t “take yes for an answer.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1887793">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>2K warns users their info has been stolen following breach of its help desk</strong> - Stolen data includes names, email addresses, console IDs, and gamertags. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1887894">link</a></p></li>
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when one notices a sign on a Catholic church that says “Convert to Christianity, and we’ll give you $100.”
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The one says to the other, “should we do it??” The other says “NO!! Are you crazy?” The first guy replies “Hey, a hundred dollars is a hundred dollars… I’m gonna do it.” So he walks in to the church, and little while later, he walks back out. The friend says “well, did you get the money?” He replies “Oh that’s all you people think about, isn’t it??”
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“It’s a small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind,” says ground control officer and cuts off all communications.
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Four rabbis are debating scripture out in the garden, and one of them notices he’s continuously outvoted by the other three even though he’s absolutely certain he’s right. At a certain point, his frustration gets the best of him and he stands up, raises his hands and and says “My Lord, you must know that this is the right way, gives us a sign to let us know!”
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As soon as he has spoken, a cloud materializes out of nowhere, moves in front of the sun and dissolves again.
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The other three look at him, at each other, go “Well… That was certainly unusual, but the weather’s been acting up a bit lately, so this does not really mean anything”, and just continue with the discussion unmoved.
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The fourth rabbi, increasingly desperate, again stands up and calls out “My Lord, they continue to defy your word, please send another sign to help them see the error of their ways!”
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This time, it’s not just one cloud, but the entire sky darkens, a thunderclap sounds and a bolt of lightning hits <em>just</em> next to the other three rabbis. They’re startled, but after catching their breath conclude that no, you don’t see that every day, but it’s late summer, thunderstorms can come in surprisingly quickly, we’re out in an open garden, there’s no lightning rod on top of the synagogue even though there <em>really</em> should be, etc. So this still doesn’t mean anything, we’ll stick with our viewpoints thank you very much.
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Now absolutely livid and still outvoted, the fourth rabbi gets up one final time, stamps his feet, raises his hands and shouts “Oh Lord, you who created all, for the love of your peope and the ways of the world, make your will known, so that it must be clear even to these stubborn mules!”
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And a booming voice fills the sky, “<strong>HE IS CORRECT</strong>”
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The other three rabbis look up, look down to their colleague, and finally one says:
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“That’s still three against two”
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He noticed there is an animal’s head hanging on the wall and asked the bartender what is it
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“A moose” replied the bartender
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“Jesus christ! How big are the cats here?” Said the scot
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