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Slurs are making a comeback on the left. Some say it's a reaction to tone-policing.

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History famously repeats itself. Still, I never expected "retarded," the insult du jour of my youth, to come back in style — especially after it was canceled only years ago.

Wait, there's no way 31% of second graders are actually using X. Right?

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What I assume a 7 year old would look like if they accidentally logged onto X.

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A court filing unmasked the 100 investors in Elon Musk's X: a Saudi prince, major VCs, Diddy, and Jack Dorsey

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Elon Musk started buying shares in Twitter in January 2022

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Elon Musk made a $13 billion blunder. Wall Street still wants to work with him.

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Elon Musk's deal to borrow $13 billion to finance his Twitter purchase was a flop. Those same banks very much want to be in business with him.

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Trump Signals a Future for Elon Musk in the White House

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Trump’s Love of AI Slop Peaks With Taylor Swift ‘Endorsement’

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Elon Musk's X is being sued again — this time over $120 million worth of server parts

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Elon Musk made cutting costs a priority following his takeover of Twitter in 2022.

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X closes office in Brazil amid Elon Musk's censorship feud with Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes

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An escalation in Elon Musk's public feud with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has led to the closure of X's office in the country.

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Elon Musk is super mad at Mark Cuban again

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Elon Musk called Mark Cuban a giant turd in human form after Cuban said that Musk had adjusted X's algorithm according to his own preferences.

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Elon Musk's latest AI chatbot is happy to spit out the kinds of images its rivals refuse to. That could give it an edge — and go very wrong

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Elon Musk's AI company just released Grok-2 in beta for paid users with a new image generation feature.

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