immediately fled to Russia with troves of American secrets

Russia wasn’t his final destiny. He was en route to somewhere else when his passport was revoked.

I’m imagining one of those that feeds you random tvtropes instead

Ars itself has become pretty enshittified. It doesn’t hold a candle when compared to itself 10 years ago. Also, they mentioned Doctorow several times but apparently they couldn’t be arsed to put even a single link to his blog… why?

I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both

he’s not a Tesla founder, he only bought it