Elon’s Hidden Motives + A Meetup in the Metaverse

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The $44 billion Twitter deal is back on the table — and Casey isn’t buying it. Kevin looks for friends in the Metaverse. And the “Hard Fork Transparency Report” debuts.

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0:00.0	Kevin, can I tell you how I heard about the Elon news?
0:02.8	Please.
0:03.6	So it's morning in San Francisco.
0:05.8	I had just finished at the gym.
0:07.4	I go to my locker, I pick up my phone,
0:09.6	and there's a text message from a producer at CNBC.
0:12.5	And it says, can you come on right now to talk about the Elon and Twitter news?
0:17.3	And of course, I think I haven't looked at my phone in 50 minutes.
0:22.6	Like, what has happened?
0:23.7	Do you do it? Do you do the hit like from the exercise bike?
0:27.1	So I said, I'm going to need a few minutes, because I'm just leaving the gym,
0:31.9	but also like you can't turn the camera on, because like, look,
0:34.7	I'm just on high intensity interval training.
0:37.3	And she said, it's fine.
0:39.2	We'll call you.
0:40.2	Like, can it be right now?
0:41.9	And I said, no, I need two minutes to read tweets.
0:46.2	So I spent two minutes reading tweets.
0:51.0	And then I was on CNBC presenting my grand take
0:55.4	that I have no idea what's happening.
0:59.4	Iconic. I love it.
1:01.3	I'm Kevin Russe. I'm a tech columnist at The New York Times.
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