Elon Musk Agonistes

And other distractions for the long weekend.

Welcome back to Wicked Problems.

For all of our readers looking forward to the long weekend and looking for a bit of middlebrow content to keep ticking over, here are some things to check out.

Musk controls 60% of the EV charging stations in the United States, and forced the Biden Administration to change tack on standards for EV charging - because they don’t think they can lever Americans into EVs fast enough without his cooperation.

The New Yorker: Ronan Farrow’s deeply reported 10,000-word long-read on Elon Musk - and how dependent the US has become on him for the “green transition” - is worth the time. Even if you snack on the audio version or an interview with Farrow about it.

If the antics over Twitter the Xeetshow have you distracted - see Voldemort’s return to the platform, below…