Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, October 21st, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today I made the mistake of saying Elon's name five times in front of a mirror so all the Elon

Twitter headlines came back to terrify us. Forbes alleges that they've caught

Tik-Toc doing the exact thing that everybody fears they're doing. What if I told you there was a third huge

AI-Raze story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. I almost

tweeted earlier this week, hey has everyone forgotten that the whole Elon

Twitter thing hasn't actually been resolved yet. I didn't end up

hitting the send button because I didn't want to jinx it and bring on a bunch of headlines,

but I guess just thinking about that did the trick.

Bloomberg is reporting this morning that Twitter and Elon Musk's advisors are preparing the paperwork to finally complete the takeover deal by October 28th which was the court's

deadline that's a week from today that came after the Washington Post was

reporting this quote Elon Musk told prospective investors in his deal to buy the company that he planned to get rid of nearly 75% of Twitter's 7,500 workers,

whittling the company down to a skeleton staff of just over 2,000.

Even if Musk's Twitter deal falls through, and there's little indication now that it will,

big cuts are expected.

Twitter's current management plan to pair the company's payroll by about $800 million by the end of next year.

A number that would mean the departure of nearly a quarter of the workforce,

according to corporate documents and interviews

with people familiar with the company's deliberations. The company

also planned to make major cuts to its infrastructure including data centers that

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