The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.
Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
The scent of Musk: Power, charisma and paranoia in Silicon Valley
Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
It’s Not Just Elon Musk — These Billionaires Are Also Neurodivergent
Some billionaires say their conditions helped them succeed in business.
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
People in This Mississippi City Faced Off With Elon Musk. They Lost.
Despite locals’ concerns about noise and possible pollution, Mississippi is allowing Mr. Musk’s company to operate gas turbines there that will help power its chatbot.
Muskism, capitalism according to Elon Musk
Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present
Elon Musk sells us sovereignty through technology in an age of crisis. Muskism resembles past futurisms, but with an important difference: this time, the question of who owns the machines is paramount.
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
Trump and Musk's history obsession
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield@mastodon.social)
🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions. There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...
DOGE Blitzkrieg: on Musk's artificial intelligence statecraft
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
