Ancestors

Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-02 at 21:58

Over at @WIRED, reporters like Vittoria Elliott are doing excellent work documenting Musk's takeover of the federal government

In this piece, she tracks down the names of the people Musk has installed at various agencies

these guys are all 19 to 24 year old engineers -- one is a Thiel fellow

Story here: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/L2C7d

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Written by Ooze 𓁟 on 2025-02-02 at 23:02

@clive @WIRED So at least one of the people dismantling the US govt is doing it for free! Elon is going to throw those boys to the wolves when the shit hits the fan.

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Toot

Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-02 at 23:11

@Ooze @WIRED

I know

one thought I had is, if any of these activities ever get taken to court, these guys may discover that Musk really set them up as fall guys

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Descendants

Written by Jeremy Kahn on 2025-02-02 at 23:29

@clive

Same as it ever was

The techie proud boys

@Ooze @WIRED

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