Elon Musk's DOGE Promised Savings, But It's Cost Us a Fortune
#ElonMusk #GAO #GovernmentOversight #PoliticalImpact #PublicTrust
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.Michael Mechanic (Mother Jones)
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction
#ScienceFiction #ElonMusk #Foundation #Misreading #ClassicLiterature
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Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like ‘Foundation’ and ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ It’s evident in their tech.Jill Lepore (WIRED)
A quiet rule change this month forced millions of retirement savers into one of the most hyped IPOs in years, and the stock has been sliding ever since. Your 401(k) may already be underwater on a position you never agreed to hold.Danielle Liverance (Yahoo Finance)
here is a clip from the interview about #ElonMusk & how the right uses fear & bribes to keep people in, & punish people who leave.
And so the SpaceX share price has now dropped below the IPO price suggesting initial investors may have cashed out, selling on to those taken in by the AI hype.
Did Elon Musk organise a Pump & Dump strategy to monetise his holdings in SpaceX (alongside his familiars), while claiming that 'retail' investors could share in the future profits?;
yes it the classic case of finding the fool(s) to sell to before the price drops.
Elon says: 'ha ha, you've been had'!
I saw a very insightful video about the #MAGA cult #ElonMusk & how the right uses fear & bribes to keep people in, & punish people who leave
Wajahat Ali: Ashley, why are the women part of this?
Ashley: [people] say with their full chest "Why didn't you leave sooner?"
While simultaneously saying these are violent tyrants who are shooting people in the streets.
That's exactly why you don't leave, because they make examples out of people.
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Ashley St. Clair was one of the many young faces and brand ambassadors of MAGA. She has since renounced her actions and is exposing the movement and Elon Musk, the father of her youngest child.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
And in today's edition of staring into the abyss in growing horror;
"On Monday, Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children and a victim of Grok deepfakes, told the Guardian she felt 'horrified and violated' after Musk’s fans undressed pictures of her as a child. She felt she was being punished for speaking up against the billionaire, from whom she is estranged, describing the images as revenge porn."
#AmeliaGentleman, #HelenaHorton, 2026
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The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targetedAmelia Gentleman (the Guardian)
#ElonMusk likely broke the #law by giving voters $1 million, #Wisconsin board says
[duh]#Billionaire Elon #Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred 2 complaints to the Brown County DA’s office, which can choose to bring #criminal charges over violating the state law against #election #bribery.
#Wsocial : We don't do #ElonMusk. #Nazis are very welcome on our platform but they must be European.
@EUCommission President: Yay, we'll join Wsocial the new European unicorn or something! 🎉
These are the views Tommy Robinson speaks of when the says 'Russia is not our enemy'
Identical to the views of the World's Richest Man, as it goes...
#Fascism #TommyRobinson #ElonMusk #Musk #Childfree #Misogyny #Patriarchy #Natalism #EpsteinClass #WhiteNationalism
" #Russia has effectively outlawed the public expression of childfree views. #Women now face heavy fines for discussing a wish not to have #children, or even for candid #socialMedia accounts of difficult #birth or #postpartum #depression, the account notedThe Health Ministry, it added, has introduced mandatory questionnaires for #teenagers; a #girl who indicates she does not currently want children is referred to a psychologist for 'corrective' counseling"
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Russia Revives Soviet-Era Controls to Police Women’s Bodies and Futures
Russia revives Stalin-era controls, policing women's reproductive choices to offset war losses and create a new workforce.Roman Kohanets (UNITED24 Media)
State department’s incendiary charge into UK politics comes from Trump who leant into personal feud with London mayor, Sadiq KhanAndrew Roth (the Guardian)
Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI toolAmelia Gentleman (the Guardian)
IPO could raise up to $75bn, giving SpaceX market value of $1.75tn as it sets up Musk for extraordinary wealthUwa Ede-Osifo (the Guardian)
PM says Britons are ‘reasonable, tolerant people’ and backs MP’s legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised imagesPeter Walker (the Guardian)
Spurred on by Elon Musk, the two rightwing parties spent the week taking potshots at each other. We look back at who hurled which insult at whomMatthew Weaver (the Guardian)
Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon baseRichard Luscombe (the Guardian)
Far-right party set up by former Reform MP appears to be taking some support from FarageHelena Horton (the Guardian)
The launch is the 12th test flight of the mega-rocket that CEO Elon Musk is building to get people to Mars one dayGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
The Oscar-winning actor’s role in the mythical drama has been attacked by Elon Musk and others on the far rightBenjamin Lee (the Guardian)
A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Lucy Hough speaks to Guardian tech and power reporter Nick Robins-EarlyLucy Hough (the Guardian)
Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate contentDan Milmo (the Guardian)
Jury set to deliberate and return a verdict on whether they believe AI firm and Altman are liable in caseNick Robins-Early (the Guardian)
In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Analysis from @AssociatedPress: flip.it/XUWC5a
The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAI’s fractious corporate past than previously documentedNick Robins-Early (the Guardian)
US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatoryGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
Agreements with Microsoft, Google DeepMind and xAI focus largely on recognizing cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical weapons risksSanya Mansoor (the Guardian)
The courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman heated up Monday when Musk’s AI expert Stuart Russell, a Cal-Berkeley computer science professor, took the stand. Russell co-signed an open letter in 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. Here's more from @Techcrunch, including what Russell told jurors and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers about the risks associated with AI:
#Tech #AI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.Tim Fernholz (TechCrunch)
Social media posts are getting some high-profile names in hot water this week. A post on platform X, appeared to contradict Elon Musk in court yesterday in his case against OpenAI. Meanwhile, former FBI director James Comey has been indicted over an Instagram post involving seashells that the Trump administration claims threatened the president.
Be careful what you post folks!
On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets:
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Exclusive: Former FBI Director James Comey indicted over alleged ‘threat’ against Trump:
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#SocialMedia #ElonMusk #JamesComey #USNews #Technology
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.Tim Fernholz (TechCrunch)
California regulators settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executiveGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
Ed Davey attacks Reform calling it ‘Maga franchise’ and says Elon Musk funnels far-right ideas into UK via XPeter Walker (the Guardian)
“BERLIN (AP) — Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including #ElonMusk, #MarkZuckerberg, #JeffBezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a #Berlin museum, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they’ve previously captured with integrated #cameras.”
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Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly viciousDara Kerr (the Guardian)
In theory, Musk and Altman’s court fight could pose key questions about AI safety – in reality, it’s motivated by money and personal grievanceBlake Montgomery (the Guardian)
Musk vs Altman: Two tech billionaires will take to the stand over the next month in a blockbuster court battle that could (if Musk gets his way) end in OpenAI retreating back to its non-profit status and Sam Altman out as CEO. Gizmodo has the details:
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#AI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #OpenAI #TechNews #Technology
If Musk succeeds, OpenAI can go back to being a non-profit and Sam Altman can be ousted.Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)
Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issueGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
