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This week, Elon Musk has proven that skill in building electric vehicles doesn’t transfer to running a social media company. I suppose this could be a joke if it weren’t also a serious indictment of how we collectively legitimize experts in technology, and not those who are experts in the social systems technology is entangled with. This is an example of prim…
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