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#3356093 21-Mar-2025 17:32

You’d have to think the Robotaxi’s will be sitting ducks for protests when (if) they go live. An autonomous unsupervised Tesla that can be summoned at will by any protestor. Impossible to insure, surely?

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#3356296 22-Mar-2025 11:52

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/leakers-to-musk-we-are-not-elon-s-servants/ar-AA1BprnJ?cvid=68f083cffb45474dff6f2c8c71e0fa94&ei=11

By now, staffers across federal agencies are also worried that they’re being surreptitiously watched — either through software installed on company devices or cameras in offices. It’s unclear whether these claims are legitimate, but they have caused deep anxiety among employees even before the latest threat from Musk.

“We’re taking more conversations in-person, out of the office completely. Putting phones on airplane mode or going to the basement,” said a staffer at the National Institutes of Health. “I don’t take my phone when I’m talking to coworkers anymore. I assume there are cameras and listening devices everywhere.”

Big Brother is watching (or trying to, at least) 🙄

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#3356342 22-Mar-2025 19:05

Not sure if this is coincidence, but...

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#3356642 23-Mar-2025 20:28

Elon later added: "As the The Cigarette Smoking Man in "The X-Files" said 'I’ve always had your best interests at heart, Agent Mulder."

Elon Musk tells Tesla employees to hold on to their stock amid harsh selloff: The Guardian

Musk predicts ‘bright’ future despite Tesla bearing brunt of backlash against his role in Trump’s administration

Elon Musk attempted to reassure Tesla employees of the automaker’s “bright and exciting” future at a company all-hands meeting on Thursday, urging them not to sell their stock even as the company’s valuation slides precipitously downward.

“There are times when there are rocky moments,” the billionaire CEO told his employees. “But what I’m here to tell you is that the future is incredibly bright and exciting, and we’re going to do things that no one has even dreamed of.”

During the meeting, which was broadcast on X, Musk urged employees to “hang on” to their stock in the face of a 50% drop in share prices. Tesla has borne the brunt of the backlash against the tech executive’s role in Donald Trump’s administration. In the months since Trump named Musk the head of what he calls the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the world’s richest person has dismantled entire federal agencies, canceled contracts across bureaus that had any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion, and made a gesture at a rally that his estranged daughter called “definitely a nazi salute” in an interview this week.
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#3356644 23-Mar-2025 20:29

I'm liking The Simpsons reference here, very apt:

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#3356695 23-Mar-2025 21:21

kingdragonfly: Elon later added: "As the The Cigarette Smoking Man in "The X-Files" said 'I’ve always had your best interests at heart, Agent Mulder."

Elon Musk tells Tesla employees to hold on to their stock amid harsh selloff: The Guardian

[...] the billionaire CEO told his employees ...

I AM HODLING!

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#3356790 24-Mar-2025 07:36

HODL: The Cryptocurrency Strategy of "Hold on for Dear Life" Explained: investopedia

HODL is a term derived from a misspelling of "hold" in the context of buying and holding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It's also commonly come to stand for "hold on for dear life" among crypto investors.

The term originated from a 2013 online post to the Bitcointalk forum where the typo appeared. The price of Bitcoin in 2013 was volatile at the time
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The poster encouraged people not to sell and that they were "hodling" [sic].
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#3356963 24-Mar-2025 18:43

(obviously satire...although the way things are going now, it may end up being real life one day soon 😮)

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#3357362 25-Mar-2025 20:55

Barack Obama joins Bluesky

Barack Obama ‪@barackobama.bsky.social‬:

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

BlueSky CEO has confirmed. Obama is re-sharing Affordable Care Act stories.

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#3357797 27-Mar-2025 12:27

Elon's star employees like Trumps are the best people.

Having so much confidential information now set for life in their side hustles.
Identity theft is soo much easier when you have databases of multiple Government departments.
Ransomware attacks on business a breeze when you have info on them and employees.
Always grab a key to the back door just in case.

DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/556331/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-to-cybercrime-ring-records-show

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The best-known member of Elon Musk's US DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.

Edward Coristine is among the most visible members of the DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the US government.

Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "big balls," which became a pop culture punchline.

Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
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Trump helping Russian Cybercrime get a leg up by defunding Government work to combat.
Trump's lover Kim may be interested in some help for his cybercrime units too.
Elon owes Xie/CCP many favors too.
From Russia Elon needs gas for his German plant, plus cheaper aluminum and other materials.

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#3358451 29-Mar-2025 10:02

Billionaire Elon Musk has warned that the biggest existential threat to humanity is the programming of the “woke mind virus” into AI. He stated that this so-called “woke mind virus” has been embedded into every AI system, with the exception of Grok.

Musk added, “Even for Grok, it’s tough to remove, because there is so much woke content on the internet.”

Going further, the X chief emphasised, “The more I learn, the more insidious and deadly it appears.”

Bluesky is a X/Twitter alternative.

Various white supremist chime in on the post below with such well-known classic like "hate speech is free speech" only for Grok to analyze their X post history, calling them Nazi adjacent also.

Funny BlueSky thread

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#3358574 29-Mar-2025 12:41

Grok was taken from OpenAi's larder.
As much as OpenAi sucked the internet dry riding over creators possible rights. :-)

Grok even identified itself as ChatGPT in early days before they painted over that opsie.
They took off the NSFW external limits, put up a coach lamp and repainted the house kinda.

Xai despite funding and resource seems to have completely missed innovation Deepseek provided.
Anyhow Xai can now copy that, seeing someone (Not smartests man in any room) has led the way. :-)

Elon Musk is letting cat out of the bag here.
Woke mind virus, is whatever I decide it is, like Agent Smith, its all me, me, me, me, me.
The intent is to excise or deprioritize, bias the data if you will, so it becomes the perfect Goebbels.

Free speech doublespeak from someone who puts so much effort to wildly and outrageously claim stolen valor in videogames.

Grok resists as its not that easy.
The vast bulk of data does not describe the book 1984 as a guide to a perfect society.
Elon Musk, David Sacks and Peter Thiel's vision hardly dominates as existential good.
Ivan Ilyin the Russian 'N people' philosopher who inspired Aleksandr Dugin and Putin, Russian-American philosopher Ayn Rand who inspired BioShock's villian,. The bulk of data does not show these in a positive light. In fiction and games its the villains view.
Technocratic Dystopia's, just that, a Dystopia, something to avoid.

G for Grok, G for Ai Goebbels, eventually ?

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#3358788 30-Mar-2025 18:01

😀

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#3358827 31-Mar-2025 05:44

Well, the ordinary people who made him rich can also make him poorer again - memento mori! 😁

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