Elon’s Two-Day War with Apple + How to Beat an A.I. Censor + S.B.F.’s ‘Bad Month’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Elon Musk accuses Apple of trying to sabotage Twitter. But after his visit with Apple’s C.E.O., Tim Cook, things are … good? Then, the New York Times reporter Paul Mozur on the tactics Chinese protesters are deploying to avoid the most sophisticated censorship apparatus in the world. Plus: S.B.F. says it’s been a “bad month.”

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0:00.0	So, I'm an ethics question.
0:03.6	So it's Thanksgiving and I bring my Nintendo Switch because my 10-year-old nephew also likes
0:09.5	to play Nintendo Switch specifically.
0:11.9	He likes to play Fortnite with me.
0:14.3	And my nephew is a very good Fortnite player and I am a person who plays Fortnite two
0:20.2	times a year when I bring my Switch thing out with my nephew.
0:24.1	And so my nephew says to me, we're going to make you enter the lobby first because then
0:29.4	we'll get matched up with worst players.
0:32.4	If it was you, would you agree to these terms?
0:36.2	I think I would.
0:37.2	I mean, I am frequently the worst or close to the worst player in a multiplayer video
0:43.5	game and I actually find it kind of fun to play with people who are way better than me.
0:48.6	Did you do it?
0:49.6	We did it.
0:50.6	I spent the next 15 minutes chasing my nephew around in a 50 versus 50 team contest and
0:58.0	at the end of 15 minutes, me and my nephew had won a victory royale.
1:02.1	No.
1:03.1	Yes.
1:04.1	You lasted 15 minutes.
1:06.5	We went all the way to the end.
1:08.3	Did you just hide?
1:09.7	No.
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