Links From the Week of 05-17-2026

SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy | Techdirt

[...] the operational track record is what it is. Twitter was generating $4.5 billion in ad revenue the year before Musk bought it. Three years into his five-year plan to reach $12 billion, the combined X/xAI advertising business is at somewhere under $3 billion — and that’s counting the separate AI business he launched after acquisition. The 69 million paid subscribers became 4.4 million. The $10 billion subscription business became $250 million. The payments business that was supposed to be generating revenue in 2023 just launched in beta in November 2025.

Paul Brown's iPod

h/t Kottke

Volvo CEO Says 'Generational Shift' Could Bring On The Return Of Wagons

[...] Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson thinks there's absolutely a future for wagons here in the U.S., saying the market has possibly gone "a bit too far into a single SUV market." I know that virtually no one reading this is going to buy one of them new, but, as a wagon-enjoyer myself, it's still very nice to hear.

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Later on in the interview, the two-time CEO actually said Volvo wouldn't just have SUVs even five years from now. Since I don't have much hope for the grand comeback of the sedan, and there's no indication a Volvo minivan is on the horizon in the U.S., a wagon seems to be the logical conclusion.

As an owner of an Audi A4 allroad and general non-enjoyer of SUVs, I fully support this resurgence of the station wagon.