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#3044313 3-Mar-2023 13:45

Twitter: It would be a pity if something bad happened to Tesla in China

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#3044351 3-Mar-2023 16:50

Slate: What You Get for Being Loyal to Elon Musk

...Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to the remaining employees, telling them to resign with severance or embrace an “extremely hardcore” work culture and stick around. (How many departees actually got their severance is an open question.) Twitter was down to about 2,000 employees in recent days, the New York Times reported, before Musk fired at least another 200 on Saturday night. Indeed, on Saturday night.

One of those laid off was Esther Crawford. This was her in November, sleeping on the floor at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco and then defending it as a necessary sacrifice of leadership in a high-pressure job.

... She had been as public as anyone in her embrace of Musk’s grindset cultural demands. When people pointed out that maybe it wasn’t a good idea for a leader to promote sleeping at the office, she stood up for it in an extensive thread. Musk, who brags about not sleeping much, probably loved it. Not four months later, Crawford’s payoff for going extremely hardcore was that Musk fired her.
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#3044382 3-Mar-2023 17:19

„Dear Elon, have you still not understood the difference between self-proclaimed cleverness and wisdom?“

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

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#3047215 8-Mar-2023 08:34

Does anyone still thinks of him not as a douchebag?

Background: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/musk-mocks-disabled-twitter-employee-he-publicly-fired/ar-AA18kbYA

Employee profile and contribution to humans: http://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com/

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#3047219 8-Mar-2023 08:56

In my youth, I thought the HR department would protect employees from abuse, such as Musk mocking a disabled worker.

Was I naïve! I wish I knew this when I started work.

Human Resources Sucks at Helping Humans

1) HR is there to protect the company, not you! (4:38)

2) HR will not keep things confidential (6:29)

3) HR is subservient to the company owners (7:43)

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#3047220 8-Mar-2023 09:00

More on the employee mocked by Elon https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/

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#3047221 8-Mar-2023 09:07

More on this absolute douchebag move: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/11kzn5v/elon_musk_firing_a_disabled_employee_and_then/

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#3047278 8-Mar-2023 10:56

Given investors don't have Twitter stock to play with anymore, I can see a bit of a backlash happening with TSLA over this.

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#3047307 8-Mar-2023 12:03

I would feel sorry for the staff but I would love to see this creeps entire empire crash and burn.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3048071 9-Mar-2023 13:04

New York Times: F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter’s Privacy Practices

The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying an investigation into Twitter’s data and privacy practices and is seeking testimony from Elon Musk, who has laid off the bulk of Twitter’s work force since acquiring the company last year.

The investigation is focused on whether Twitter has adequate resources to protect its users’ privacy after the mass layoffs and budget cuts ordered by Mr. Musk, said five people familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The agency, which currently has oversight over Twitter, investigated a former executive’s claims of security problems last summer and ramped up its inquiry following the abrupt resignations of three top executives responsible for privacy, security and compliance. They left Twitter in November shortly after Mr. Musk acquired the company.

The agency has requested a conversation with Mr. Musk, two of the people said. It has also sought to interview former Twitter employees who worked on privacy and security at the company.

The inquiry has been criticized by a subcommittee of the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee
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the European Union has pressured Twitter to release more data about how it fights disinformation.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission also probed whether Mr. Musk’s purchases of Twitter stock had been properly disclosed.
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#3048425 10-Mar-2023 08:59

A science fiction trope coming to fruition: a villain implanting brain chips. Of course with government funding, and the villain actively avoiding government oversight.

From the website

...Musk’s public claims and well-known impatience pose a critical test for the FDA in balancing demands for speedy review with the diligence required to ensure safety and efficacy, said Kip Ludwig, former program director for neural engineering at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), a federal agency.

The FDA in recent years has faced pressure from Congress to accelerate reviews but also criticism over controversial approvals, such as its 2021 authorization of an Alzheimer’s treatment without conclusive proof of efficacy.

Industry players closely watching Neuralink’s development have long expected a collision between Musk and the FDA, Ludwig said, as the billionaire pushes Neuralink to quickly navigate regulatory reviews.
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"We're aiming to design a fully implantable, cosmetically invisible brain-computer interface to let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go."

"Neuralink is also about interaction and communication

And it will be a real time communication, without any time lag. Neuralink will connect and control almost anything with internet connection."

Reuters: U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks
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Neuralink’s focus on speed has contributed to other problems.

Reuters exclusively reported late last year that the federal government was investigating the company’s treatment of its research animals. The probe was launched amid growing employee concern that the company is rushing experiments, causing additional suffering and deaths of pigs, sheep and monkeys.

Three Neuralink staffers now tell Reuters that company leaders wanted animal experiments accelerated to gather data to address FDA concerns over the human-trial application.

Reuters also broke the news that the Department of Transportation is separately investigating whether Neuralink illegally transported dangerous pathogens, on chips removed from monkey brains, without proper containment measures.
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#3048467 10-Mar-2023 10:20

A science fiction trope coming to fruition: a villain implanting brain chips. Of course with government funding, and the villain actively avoiding government oversight.

From the Neuralink website, describinh their goals:
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"We're aiming to design a fully implantable, cosmetically invisible brain-computer interface to let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go."

"Neuralink is also about interaction and communication

And it will be a real time communication, without any time lag. Neuralink will connect and control almost anything with internet connection."

Reuters: U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks

...Musk’s public claims and well-known impatience pose a critical test for the FDA in balancing demands for speedy review with the diligence required to ensure safety and efficacy, said Kip Ludwig, former program director for neural engineering at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), a federal agency.

The FDA in recent years has faced pressure from Congress to accelerate reviews but also criticism over controversial approvals, such as its 2021 authorization of an Alzheimer’s treatment without conclusive proof of efficacy.

Industry players closely watching Neuralink’s development have long expected a collision between Musk and the FDA, Ludwig said, as the billionaire pushes Neuralink to quickly navigate regulatory reviews.
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Neuralink’s focus on speed has contributed to other problems.

Reuters exclusively reported late last year that the federal government was investigating the company’s treatment of its research animals. The probe was launched amid growing employee concern that the company is rushing experiments, causing additional suffering and deaths of pigs, sheep and monkeys.

Three Neuralink staffers now tell Reuters that company leaders wanted animal experiments accelerated to gather data to address FDA concerns over the human-trial application.

Reuters also broke the news that the Department of Transportation is separately investigating whether Neuralink illegally transported dangerous pathogens, on chips removed from monkey brains, without proper containment measures.
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#3048470 10-Mar-2023 10:28

freitasm:

Does anyone still thinks of him not as a douchebag?

Background: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/musk-mocks-disabled-twitter-employee-he-publicly-fired/ar-AA18kbYA

Employee profile and contribution to humans: http://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com/

It seemed pretty obvious to me at the time of his Thailand cave rescue statements.