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A lot of boos as #Trump praised #ElonMusk & #DOGE.
Trump is lying about something that he & #Musk have said before: that there’s massive “fraud” in #SocialSecurity being paid out to deceased Americans still in the system.
Analysts & watchdog groups have thoroughly DEBUNKED this crap.
The problem is neither new nor a sign of widespread fraud, but a technological issue w/Social Security’s tracking system & does not represent a source of significant spending.
Some #Democrats will be wearing stickers saying #ElonMusk is stealing #SocialSecurity.
Several Dems will boycott #Trump’s speech altogether.
Me? I am having a martini to gird myself against the terror.
And that’s what I’ve decided Trump has been up to in his first 50ish days, a campaign of #terror against the citizens of the US & the citizens of planet earth.
Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
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Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
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Ora DVX #Meloni all'amichetto nazi je fa er condono "ad personam". Il fisco italiano mette #ElonMusk nel mirino, ha evaso l’Iva di #Twitter: “Ci deve 12,5 milioni” #26febbraio #Bollette
Il fisco italiano mette Elon M...
Il fisco italiano mette Elon Musk nel mirino, ha evaso l’Iva di Twitter: “Ci deve 12,5 milioni”
La Procura di Milano all’attacco per il periodo 2016-2022, prima che il social cambiasse nome in “X”Rosario Di Raimondo (la Repubblica)
The Hollow Men Of Silicon Valley
I am, unabashedly, a Humean emotivist. Like David Hume, I hold that emotions—not abstract reason—form the foundation of our ethics. Cold logic alone doesn’t guide our moral compass; it is sha…Techdirt
ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.
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#News #ElonMusk #DOGE #Government #USPolitics #Trump
ProPublica Confirms Additional Staffers Helping Elon Musk and DOGE Dismantle U.S. Agencies
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the billionaire.ProPublica
Musk will OpenAI kaufen - und erntet Spott
Techmilliardär Musk will zusammen mit Investoren OpenAI kaufen - für fast 100 Milliarden Dollar. OpenAI-Chef Altman, ein Musk-Erzfeind, reagiert mit Spott. Auch der Verwaltungsrat sage Nein. Von. R. Spiegelhauer.
ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.
Here’s what we know about them: propublica.org/article/elon-mu…
#News #Law #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #USPolitics
These Are Some of the Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE
Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.ProPublica
Unbelievable
#ElonMusk’s US #DOGE Service are feeding sensitive data into #AI software via #Microsoft’s #cloud
#Musk’s US #DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the #Education Dept into #ArtificialIntelligence software to probe the agency’s programs & spending…. The AI probe includes data w/personally identifiable info for people who manage grants, & sensitive internal financial data…
#law #security #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #Trump #TrumpCoup
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Unless you don’t mind Elon Musk, and his team of unelected, illegitimate techbros sifting through all your social security personal/financial data, CALL YOUR THREE CONGRESS MEMBERS TODAY AND TELL THEM TO STOP DOGE!
Find your House Member: house.gov/representatives
Find your two Senators:
senate.gov/senators/index.htm
#musk #elonmusk #doge #trump #AI #government #techbros #hackers #coup #congress #senate #resist #fightback #america #USA #US #USAID
Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
#ElonMusk #Raskin #USAID @uspolitics
UPDATED to add subtitles & full text in ALT.
YouTube link to video at @nicolesandler page
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Raskin: Musk illegally seized Treasury payments "we don't have a 4th branch of gov called Elon Musk!
Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American ...YouTube
Ho disattivato il mio account su X. Ho scritto e letto su Twitter dal 2009 al 2022, da 2 anni non postavo più e ogni tanto entravo per leggere con un certo senso di colpa. Alcuni account mi mancheranno e sicuramente mi spiacerà non leggere più i post di @orporick, ma adesso per me non è più possibile restare #Twitter #ElonMusk #SocialNetwork @maupao @scuola @informapirata
One of the largest federal #science funding bodies in the World leaves Elon's Xitshow
DFG verlässt Plattform X
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
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#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.Molly White (Citation Needed)
Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — #billionaires like #ElonMusk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel — avoid #taxes. Here are 10 of their strategies.
#Finance #Law #Tech #Journalism
Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale
The top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Steve Ballmer.ProPublica
For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…
Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.
p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack
#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump
Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.
But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.
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#tech #elonmusk #trump #uselection #politics
Shame on the Elon enablers
Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of himParis Marx (Disconnect)
[Jezebel]: Um, ICYMI, Elon Musk Repeatedly Asked Employee to ‘Have His Babies,’ Punished Her for Declining
A bombshell new report about Musk's alleged, highly inappropriate sexual relationships with his employees is slipping through the cracks and I am here to put it on your radar.
By Kylie Cheung
Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets
HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken downJason Burke (The Guardian)
EN: #Twitter published parts of its source-code and people are speculating over what motivated #ElonMusk to go #opensource. Here's what they say! 👇
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#Twitter hat Teile seines Quellcodes veröffentlicht und die Leute spekulieren, was #ElonMusk dazu bewogen hat, #OpenSource zu gehen.
Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.
Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.
Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…
#tech #elonmusk #twitter #paypal
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of TwitterParis Marx (Disconnect)
Elon Musk’s Biggest Success Story: Convincing People To Try Out An Open, Distributed Social Network
A few months ago, I attended a wonderful conference put on by the “Global Freedom of Expression” program at Columbia University discussing decentralized social media and regulations aro…Techdirt
Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.
In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.
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#elonmusk #tech #tesla #twitter #spacex
Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.
Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.Linette Lopez (Insider)
Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots
techdirt.com/2022/12/02/multip…
#elonmusk #twitter #polls #bots #spam #1
Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots
Rolling Stone has a fun article quoting multiple former Twitter employees highlighting that polls are the least secure tool on the platform, and are regularly open to manipulation by bots: “Polls a…Techdirt
Free Speech, Elon Musk Edition
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(Sorry for the repost and the link to hellsite but Nitter wasn’t displaying the video properly.)
Musk believes that direct to patient advertising is a positive. The best source for medical advice is medical professionals, not twitter's advertising algorithms.
Source: twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15…
#ElonMusk #TwitterMigration
I’m basically only keeping my Twitter account around so as not to break over a decade and a half of links on the web but I thought it might be an idea to pop over there today and state the obvious:
“The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 created an obligation under international law to avoid the harmful contamination of outer space, the moon and other celestial bodies…”
Meanwhile, Elon Musk: “oi, I’ve got an idea, why don’t I launch my fucking car into space for shits, giggles, and PR?”
Everyone: “ooh, he’s so smart, he will save us all”
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Nasa rover sighting reignites fears about human space debris
Object thought to be piece of thermal blanket from when Perseverance touched down on planetHannah Devlin (The Guardian)
Dictators are bad. Unless they’re corporate dictators. In which case, they’re our billionaire heroes who will save us all.
Go capitalism!
#elonMusk #billionaire #douchebag #capitalism
Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out
The world’s richest man has had it with this whole working-from-home business.inkl
So the going price for settling “utterly untrue” sexual harassment claims is apparently $250,000 🤔
#ElonMusk #billionaire #douchebag
Elon Musk denies he sexually harassed attendant on private jet in 2016
Billionaire says report is ‘utterly untrue’ after allegation he paid $250k in 2018 to settle claiminkl