So Oolong Musk is claiming he’s finally got someone to replace him as CEO of Twitter, and she’ll be here soon… whoever “she” actually is; Oolong has chosen to keep her identity secret for now. Which strikes me as odd at best, and something we should probably be at least slightly worried by… and whoever she turns out to be, I feel like she’ll still be taking a lot of orders from him, cos he’s still going to be The Man Upstairs; this just lets him divert attention from himself to someone else when the inevitable fuckups happen. (EDIT a few hours later: she’s now been confirmed as Linda Yaccarino, the now ex-head of advertising for NBC who was suspected in quite a few media sources as being the “she” Elon was being coy about. Again, I have no idea what the point of the secrecy was.)
Anyway, the news has introduced me to a new phenomenon, or rather a phenomenon I’ve noticed before but didn’t realise there was a name for it. Back in 1999 Kerry Chikarovski lost quite badly in the state election, having only been Liberal leader for a few months by then, and I remember thinking even then that she’d basically been offered up as a sort of sacrifice or something to get her out of the way so The Men could get back to running the show, she won that leadership spill in the December before the election because the party didn’t expect her to win… Like I said, not a new phenomenon but now I’m intrigued to discover there’s a name for it (actually coined about 20 years ago, apparently).
In other news, this is my favourite response to the news:
Anyone who ever had a heart would say a little prayer for this to come about…
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