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#3339365 4-Feb-2025 22:35

Zigg:

"You have committed a crime." Hilarious! Helloooo Mr Trump

...and in a role reversal, I wonder who dictated this one? 🤔

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#3339807 6-Feb-2025 06:55

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Gawd, it's straight out of In the Loop.

Warning: Malcolm Tucker, so plenty of swearing.

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#3339843 6-Feb-2025 11:56

The Bulwark has a fairly biting (and clever) take on the whole Musk-and-his-new-young-buddies thing: https://www.thebulwark.com/i/156526251/remedial-civics-for-tech-bros

One theme in the reports of the young DOGEbros’ rampage through the federal government—taking over offices, demanding access to hypersensitive computer systems, threatening civil servants who stand in their way—is their combination of blithering ignorance and swaggering self-assurance. It makes sense, of course. Musk, with his arrogance and smug superiority, is the final boss of a culture that has for too long heralded STEM as a new vanguard of the intellectual elite while dismissing and trivializing the humanities as frivolous. And yikes, does it show.

Who needs to read the classics when you know how to code? Why bother to learn American history when you can write America’s future in C++? Unfortunately for everyone, it turns out running a country it’s a little more complicated than building apps or cars or ~~NFTs~~ fake-money schemes. The whole country is at the mercy of conceited twentysomething computer science dipsh-ts as they get a remedial crash course in government, learning the kinds of things that college freshman in political science 101 are expected already to know.

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#3339892 6-Feb-2025 14:21

I guess the same people who don't want vaccines because nanorobots will control their mind are OK with Elon's company planting real brain implant chips in their thick skulls.

Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order: MSN

Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran, said that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.

She said the independent Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.”

The White House defended the dismissals of Fong and other inspectors general, claiming that "these rogue, partisan bureaucrats... have been relieved of their duties to make way for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy."

As USDA’s inspector general, Fong oversaw a broad range of responsibilities, including consumer food safety, audits, and investigations into the Agriculture Department, as well as enforcement of animal welfare laws. The USDA has been central to concerns over the spread of bird flu, which has affected cattle and poultry and resulted in a fatality in Louisiana.

In 2022, Fong’s office launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, which remains ongoing,
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#3340005 6-Feb-2025 20:20

The White House defended the dismissals of Fong and other inspectors general, claiming that "these rogue, partisan bureaucrats... have been relieved of their duties to make way for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy."

This is how fascists take over the government.

America is falling without a noise. Except for these people MAGA call "bureaucrats" who are actually the only ones who know this is wrong.

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#3340076 7-Feb-2025 09:30

Tesla sales update - Jan 25 v Jan 24

Australia ↓33%

France ↓63%

Germany ↓60%

Sweden ↓44%

Norway ↓42%

Source: ABC News Australia

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#3340079 7-Feb-2025 09:41

We have seen posts in previous pages and stories about the army of teenagers with no government experience at all taking over highly classified and strategic systems and databases.

Now this: "DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers"

A young technologist known online as “Big Balls,” who works for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has access to sensitive US government systems. But his professional and online history call into question whether he would pass the background check typically required to obtain security clearances, security experts tell WIRED.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old high school graduate, established at least five different companies in the last four years, with entities registered in Connecticut, Delaware, and the United Kingdom, most of which were not listed on his now-deleted LinkedIn profile. Coristine also briefly worked in 2022 at Path Network, a network monitoring firm known for hiring reformed blackhat hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle tied to Coristine also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service later that year.

One of the companies Coristine founded, Tesla.Sexy LLC, was set up in 2021, when he would have been around 16 years old. Coristine is listed as the founder and CEO of the company, according to business records reviewed by WIRED.

Tesla.Sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market. While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review.

"Foreign connections, whether it's foreign contacts with friends or domain names registered in foreign countries, would be flagged by any agency during the security investigation process," Joseph Shelzi, a former US Army intelligence officer who held security clearance for a decade and managed the security clearance of other units under his command, tells WIRED.
A longtime former US intelligence analyst, who requested anonymity to speak on sensitive topics, agrees. “There's little chance that he could have passed a background check for privileged access to government systems,” they allege.

“If I was doing the background investigation on him, I would probably have recommended against hiring him for the work he’s doing,” says EJ Hilbert, a former FBI agent who also briefly served as the CEO of Path Network prior to Coristine’s employment there. “I’m not opposed to the idea of cleaning up the government. But I am questioning the people that are doing it.”

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#3340112 7-Feb-2025 12:12

Just a general thought but is it time to update the thread title again to Shadow President Musk, or Elon Musk, eminence grise?

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#3340193 7-Feb-2025 15:32

dafman:

Tesla sales update - Jan 25 v Jan 24

Australia ↓33%

France ↓63%

Germany ↓60%

Sweden ↓44%

Norway ↓42%

Source: ABC News Australia

Just comparing a month in one year against a month in another year I am sure you could show numbers that are even worse than that.

Tesla tend to ship more cars at the end of a financial quarter. And when new models are launched and not shipped they will also sell fewer cars.

I think Elon deserves Tesla sales tanking, but I wouldn't trust that Tesla sales will be down in general off of one random month.

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#3340194 7-Feb-2025 15:47

In some countries, state subsidies for electric cars have expired, which also accounts for a significant proportion of the slump. Now there are also political reasons and growing Chinese competition to stop buying a Tesla. Trump is trying to prevent the latter with … right, with tariffs. But he can‘t outside the US.

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#3340280 7-Feb-2025 22:22

dafman:

Tesla sales update - Jan 25 v Jan 24

Australia ↓33%

France ↓63%

Germany ↓60%

Sweden ↓44%

Norway ↓42%

Source: ABC News Australia

I googled. None of the articles in the top few hits even mentioned the Tesla USA sales numbers. I have no idea what the USA sales figures are.

It seems entirely odd to not mention Tesla USA sales figures at all.

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#3340344 8-Feb-2025 07:29

Elon (and his DOGE, uh, "youngsters") appear in some political cartoons from this week:

Also: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/musk-doge-staffers-federal-government-downsizing-invs/index.html

One of his team appears to have left already after barely a week or so in the job:

[Marko] Elez, according to the Wall Street Journal, has since resigned from his role at DOGE following the newspaper’s reporting that linked him to a social media account with posts supporting racism and eugenics.

"Only the best people", right? 🙄

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#3340500 8-Feb-2025 12:00

‘To err is human, to forgive divine’: Elon Musk to rehire Doge worker who resigned over racist posts: Stuff

Elon Musk says he is re-hiring a staff member at the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) who resigned a day earlier after he was linked to social media posts that espoused racism.

Musk, in a post on his social media network X, said he would bring back Marko Elez
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Marko Elez resigned on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal linked the 25-year-old DOGE staffer to a deleted social media account on X that posted last year, “I was racist before it was cool” and “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” among other posts.

The account in September included a post that said, “Normalize Indian hate."
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#3340523 8-Feb-2025 13:20

But if anyone dares to pick on/criticise Elon personally (especially on Twitter), oh that's quite different - those ones are damned for eternity 🙄

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#3340570 8-Feb-2025 16:38

kingdragonfly: ‘To err is human, to forgive divine’: Elon Musk to rehire Doge worker who resigned over racist posts: Stuff

Vance, in a post on Musk-owned X, said Elez should be brought back and blamed “journalists who try to destroy people.” “I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,” Vance said.

The so called 'kid' was 24 years old when he posted those comments last year. Perhaps someone can ask Vance how long it might take.

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