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This leave out the most egregious thing they are doing: installing Starlink backdoors all over government.
At best, Elon and his team are making sure that he has unfettered access to all the data for his AI shenanigans. But where is the data being held? How do we know Elon's backdoor has not, itself, been backdoored?
At worst, he is actively selling it all to foreign powers.
There is zero accountability, so we really dont know....
But where is the data being held?
Highest bidder?
Boy howdy, what a head scratcher!
I swear to fucking god the intentional obliviousness of the vast majority of our media apparatus is going to fucking kill us all
But at the same time I feel like it reflects the obliviousness of the vast majority of the population. The election in the US kinda proved that. So if anything, mentioning it as often as possible is probably the best call.
They give people what they want. :(
It's partially an ego thing for Musk. I work with tons of these dunning Kruger techbro types who think they know better than everyone else and will eat a lot of shit to "prove" it. They have a chip on their shoulder because they think their engineering degree should give them some mythical status and get increasingly agitated when nobody fucking cares.
My first instinct when I saw this was "anyone with a brain already knows this." But after a little bit of extra thought I remembered what the average person thinks and how the average person voted last election and I was like "yeah, we should probably talk about this as much as possible."
There are many, many theories on this. In March, Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne of the libertarian Cato Institute tried to organize them into “six theoretical models for understanding DOGE’s action to date”:
Sadly, it could be a combination of all if these things.
Without exaggeration, this may be the stupidest chart I've ever seen in my life.
A declining trend line of Musk's spending cut promises means by end of year he'll apparently start promising $2T in new spending by DOGE according to these geniuses.
If you'd actually bothered to read any of the words, you'd have realized that this was done tongue-in-cheek.
Word hard, picture easy, me angry!!!
Yeah idk why people get mad about shit they clearly didn't read.
Reminds me of the old xkcd where a guy tells a bride on her wedding day that, extrapolating from that day's events, within two months she'll have four dozen husbands.
The stupidity of anyone asking this all innocent like Of course it’s not for efficiency it’s a fucking coup and massive corruption wake the fuck up media
Money is worthless. Data is the new money. In a time when your dollar is worth a penny, you can still sell data like gold.