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I Made the Elizabeth Holmes Eggs. I Have to Side With Billy on This One.

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For Elizabeth’s version, I weakly turned the eggs in the bowl with the stunned limpness of someone facing a looming prison sentence.

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Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares

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Mars not depicted. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger!

The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which you believe Elon Musk about wanting to go to Mars, or "spread the light of consciousness," as he put it in this week's SpaceX earnings call (and earlier S-1). Now, a reasonably informed person knows that we don't have the technology - or, frankly, even the raw information to build the technology - in order to support human life in space. …

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There Should Absolutely Be Flights Where Kids Are Banned

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Big glasses of wine on an airplane tray table.

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Can you see everything?

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Elizabeth Holmes is talking to her child. In the background, Nathan Fielder lurks, watching.
What are we looking at, and who wants us to see it? | Image: A24

This review contains spoilers.

I have heard it said that of all the drugs, fame is the most addictive. For Elizabeth Holmes, at least, I am willing to believe that is true. It is the only explanation for You Can See Everything, a movie that is, at its core, about several varieties of manipulation.

Holmes, as the CEO of Theranos, was a business-world celebrity: a woman who'd built a private company valued at $9 billion around a miniaturized blood testing platform that supposedly let people test just a drop of blood for a variety of ailments. She had a deal with Walgreens, speaking gigs, a New Yorker profile, a cover story in Fortune; Fox Ne …

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Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

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The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison

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On the outside, we would have never been friends. But in our small shared space we established a delicate rapport.
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