Culture and Commentary on repace.ai

Musk: the film nobody got to see

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk got great reviews at Venice in September. Two weeks after it opened in the US it was out of cinemas, with $571,902 at the box office, and everyone called it a flop. I’m not convinced. Before it opened, Musk spent days insulting Gibney on X and his lawyer threatened to sue. YouTube, TikTok and Meta wouldn’t run ads for the trailer because they said it was political. X just said no. Then, the day before it went out to 472 cinemas, TikTok shut down the film’s account. It came back later and TikTok said it had been a mistake, but by then the big weekend was over. To be fair, the film is nearly four hours long, which doesn’t help. But it never got a proper go.

Hedgehogs, Foxes and Founders

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”
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There’s a line from the Greek poet Archilochus that Isaiah Berlin turned into one of the most-borrowed ideas in modern thinking: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

It's Not a Game

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Live magic and AI - an uncomfortable mix with a surprise end
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I took my kids to see two illusionists, Jay and Joss, at the Theatre Royal Winchester this evening. Spoiler alert - at the time of writing the home page for the theatre is for an upcoming performance for kids ‘The Dinosaur Who Pooped’ so apologies to those who may have clicked that link before reading this.