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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 Notavi on 2025-02-02 at 22:35

@clive @WIRED I remember the things I believed at that age - I was still a Libertarian because its internal logic made a lot of sense to me and I hadn't had enough life experience yet to recognize that its core assumptions are a complete crock.

This is not good - they'll be the kind of clever that hasn't yet learnt to consider the human dimension to what they do, nor understand why it matters.

Elon has chosen his tools well :/

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Written by Luna chan on 2025-02-03 at 02:42

@StryderNotavi @clive @WIRED

The moment you get any kind of real world experience it becomes clear its a crock.

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