RIP: Elon’s Cybertruck
In her newsletter How to Survive the Broligarchy, Carole Cadwalladr eulogises Elon Musk's Cybertruck after he announced on X that he would wind down production three years after its launch, calling it the pre-eminent symbol of a Second Gilded Age and arguing the truck epitomises the AI Age not as Musk intended but as an overhyped idea that could not deliver. She ties its demise to the midterms' biggest swing since Watergate and a $5 trillion tech stock collapse, says Musk's $475 million midterm spending showed his influence, and ranges over data centre ballot defeats, alleged Israeli-funded anti-Muslim propaganda campaigns, and unreported suffering in Gaza, warning that Musk and the bros will not go quietly.
