Elon Musk: Tech Genius! Green Warrior! Biz King! Good Oligarch?

He practically admitted being a hybrid! :rotfl:
Deep-level punctuator. "_Amazing chap_"™©℗®! Best friends with himself, to quote G..
There is lot of fog of speculation around it , mostly related to his 'out of box' thinking, unconventional creativity, unusual positivity in the face of negativity. In that context he probably going along with the wind and having fun with it. But, there are many scenario's in the larger context.
  • There are people who claimed themselves are aliens ( in what we generally call 'new age') that are found to be victims of screen memories from abductions or simple beaming or simple ego etc.
  • The real aliens ( under grounders for example) with agenda (whether they themselves are aware or not) won't confess it in that case.
  • Probably somebody will use concept of positive aliens with this new thus giving a boost to the negative phenomenon with screen of 'Aliens are for our good'.
  • Other possibilities like walk-ins, in replaced body or reanimated body etc
Also, we need to define what is meant by 'Alien' before we put value to his statement. Let's us say- born on the surface to human mother by conventional means. Probably not in that sense.

But, In a age where it is legal to claim a change in gender with a mere thought, any thing and every thing is possible. In this fog, real aliens will go on with their negative agenda without any issue.

Any way, C's surprised us by saying 20% of people in the position of influence as Walk-ins or replaced. So most probably Musk's "confession" is a very good cover for whatever else going on whether he realize it or not. This news is all over the place on the internet.
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(Altair) In an older session, the C's mentioned replacement of human key personnel conducted by 4D STS. How many such people are on the surface of our planet at the moment?

(L) What good is it going to do any of us to know how many? I mean, how many... Is there a reason we need to know that number?

(Altair) No, just to get the idea of the scale of this activity.

(L) Okay. Okay, let's see... How many key individuals are replacement of human key personnel, say, in government? What's the percentage? Because we're assuming key personnel or government, right?

A: Not always.

Q: (L) So it would be different percentages in different groups?

A: Yes

Q: (L) Could we say that, for example, influencers on social media could be considered key personnel?

A: Yes

Q: (L) So, is there a percentage on that one?

A: 13

Q:
(L) 13 percent.

(Andromeda) Just for social media.

(Niall) 13% of them are what are replaced. What does that mean?

(L) I guess they're replaced by underground or...

(Andromeda) Or what?

A: Walk-ins.

Q: (Andromeda) People that work at nuclear facilities as well, ya know?

(L) That could be, yeah. People in nuclear facilities, people in the military, police. How many are in the military? I mean, we obviously know one...

(Joe) We do?

(L) Yeah. You know the one that wears the dress?

(Joe) Oh. That's not a walk-in, it's just a tranny. [laughter]

(L) Okay. People in the military have been replaced?

A: Yes

Q: (L) People in the government have been replaced. People on, say, media, like television or whatever, have some of them been replaced?

A: Yes

Q: (L) And it varies according to what field they're in as to how many are replaced?

A: Yes

Q: (Joe) Was Joe Biden replaced?

A: NO. He is just senile and a useful puppet.

Q: (L) Yeah, I mean, if they're going to put somebody there, they'd make 'em at least functional!

(Andromeda) Yeah.

(L) All right, so basically, we really can't get just, like, a general overall figure, can we?

A: 20 percent.

Q:
(L) 20% overall. Could be higher in some and lower in others. Is that it? So, this is an average using figures from all the different...?

A: Yes

Q: (L) Okay. So, just as long as everybody understands what that's an average of, because obviously, in some fields there'll be a lot more and in some there'll be a lot less. I would say that among the global elite, it's probably like 50% or more. Okay.
 
According to some, X will require subscribers to give over their personal data to an Israeli 'tech company'. What is implied here is that Musk has been co-opted by the Zionists, who will begin using X to harvest user data.

It's in line with his other globalist statements like turning X into the everything app, which would include online banking, which would be linked with one's Tweets, and therefore make accessing your money dependent on having the correct government-sponsored thoughts.

He also did tour around Israel after Oct. 7th. Probably had no choice - or at least it made business sense to do so.

This current theory hinges on AU10TIX being evil, which I can't find any evidence for, so this is just speculation for now. It matches my suspicions, though.


It's becoming increasingly clear Elon was a Trojan Horse all along. He pulled the classic switcheroo by showering us with ad money months ago now says, 'oh yeah, I forgot to mention, you'll have to give all your personal info over to my buddies at Shin Bet to continue.'

Starting July 1st, users who want to be monetized on X will need to provide Israeli intelligence company AU10TIX with access to their government-issued ID and biometric data.

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Edit: AU10TIX has a shady history with military intelligence. Apparently all this is old news from back in 2023, but it's resurfacing now.


Campaigners have expressed alarm at reports that verification for premium users of Twitter (renamed X by owner Elon Musk) will be carried out by an Israel-based company founded by former Israeli intelligence officials.

The new measures will involve users uploading a copy of their government-issued ID and a headshot, according to a report by PC Magazine. The third-party software will, after collecting X biometric data, store the information for up to 30 days.

The company providing the service, Au10tix, was founded in 2002 as the technology arm of Dutch security company, ICTS International, which itself was founded by, among others, former members of the Shin Bet intelligence services.

They have in the past been involved in developing identity verification systems for airports and border controls and have partnered with high-profile firms including Google and PayPal.

Speaking to Middle East Eye, the executive director of 7amleh, an Israel-based Palestinian digital rights organisation, said the platform's partnership with the organisation was "alarming".

"The concept of verifying user accounts is indeed essential in suppressing fake accounts and maintaining a trustworthy online environment. However, the approach chosen by X, in collaboration with the Israeli identity intelligence company ِAu10tix, raises significant concerns," said Nadim Nashif.

ِ"Au10tix is located in Israel and both have a well-documented history of military surveillance and intelligence gathering... this association raises questions about the potential implications for user privacy and data security."

He added that while he understood the necessity of security measures, it was crucial to "strike a balance between user safety and privacy, and the potential risks posed by data exposure".

"We strongly urge X to be transparent about their data handling practices and to provide assurances that the collected biometric data will be safeguarded from misuse or unauthorized access," he said.

MEE contacted X for comment but received no response by the time of publication. MEE also attempted to contact Au10tix but similarly received no response by the time of publication.
 
According to some, X will require subscribers to give over their personal data to an Israeli 'tech company'. What is implied here is that Musk has been co-opted by the Zionists, who will begin using X to harvest user data.

It's in line with his other globalist statements like turning X into the everything app, which would include online banking, which would be linked with one's Tweets, and therefore make accessing your money dependent on having the correct government-sponsored thoughts.

He also did tour around Israel after Oct. 7th. Probably had no choice - or at least it made business sense to do so.

This current theory hinges on AU10TIX being evil, which I can't find any evidence for, so this is just speculation for now. It matches my suspicions, though.






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Edit: AU10TIX has a shady history with military intelligence. Apparently all this is old news from back in 2023, but it's resurfacing now.



 
I've read about how Elon Musk shut down one of Twitter's data centers in Sacramento. A display of narcissistic behavior, impulsiveness, and very little afterthought. Interesting read, especially when paying attention to his behavior.

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center​

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees were quoted about how much work it would be to do that cleanly, noting that there’s a ton of stuff hardcoded in Twitter code referring to that data center (hold that thought).

That same day, Elon tweeted out that he had “disconnected one of the more sensitive server racks.”

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CNBC is running an excerpt from the new Walter Isaacson book about Elon that details what happened with the closing of the data center, and it is way, way, way crazier than even I expected. When Musk talked about how he “disconnected one of the more sensitive server racks,” he meant that entirely literally, in that he literally unplugged it, involving a series of improbable (and ridiculously dangerous and stupid) decisions that resulted with him under the floorboards in the data center pulling the plug, after multiple people warned him not to.

But, let’s take a step back. As the book details, Musk wanted to shut down the data center because he was in drastic “stop paying bills” mania at the time, and the Sacramento data center was costing the company $100 million/year. Also, apparently, the data center (which appears to be run by NTT) had told a Twitter employee that it did not think Twitter would be financially viable for very long.

The article starts out with a vignette that basically says everything you need to know about Musk. He had asked an infrastructure manager about moving the servers in Sacramento to one of the other two US data centers Twitter had, in Portland, Oregon. Then this happened:
Another manager at the meeting said that couldn’t be done right away. “We can’t get out safely before six to nine months,” she said in a matter-of-fact tone. “Sacramento still needs to be around to serve traffic.”
Over the years, Musk had been faced many times with a choice between what he thought was necessary and what others told him was possible. The result was almost always the same. He paused in silence for a few moments, then announced, “You have 90 days to do it. If you can’t make that work, your resignation is accepted.”
The manager began to explain in detail some of the obstacles to relocating the servers to Portland. “It has different rack densities, different power densities,” she said. “So the rooms need to be upgraded.” She started to give a lot more details, but after a minute, Musk interrupted.
“This is making my brain hurt,” he said.
“I’m sorry, that was not my intention,” she replied in a measured monotone.
“Do you know the head-explosion emoji?” he asked her. “That’s what my head feels like right now. What a pile of f—ing bulls—. Jesus H f—ing Christ. Portland obviously has tons of room. It’s trivial to move servers one place to another.”
If it’s making your brain hurt to have someone explain to you some fairly basic issues about infrastructure, the problem may be with you, dude. And, yes, it may have been “trivial” to move servers around the last time Musk ran an internet company over two decades ago, but for a major service relied on by hundreds of millions of people, that also has a ton of sensitive data, it’s… not trivial at all.

But a cousin of Musk suggested to Musk that they just do it themselves, while they were flying from the Bay Area to Austin, and Musk literally had his plane diverted to go to Sacramento and try it out, leading to… whatever the fuck this is:
They were somewhere over Las Vegas when James made his suggestion that they could move them now. It was the type of impulsive, impractical, surge-into-the-breach idea that Musk loved. It was already late evening, but he told his pilot to divert, and they made a loop back up to Sacramento.
The only rental car they could find when they landed was a Toyota Corolla. They were not sure how they would even get inside the data center at night, but one very surprised X staffer, a guy named Alex from Uzbekistan, was still there. He merrily let them in and showed them around.
The facility, which housed rooms of servers for many other companies as well, was very secure, with a retinal scan required for entry into each of the vaults. Alex the Uzbek was able to get them into the X vault, which contained about 5,200 refrigerator-size racks of 30 computers each.
“These things do not look that hard to move,” Elon announced. It was a reality-distorting assertion, since each rack weighed about 2,500 pounds and was eight feet tall.
“You’ll have to hire a contractor to lift the floor panels,” Alex said. “They need to be lifted with suction cups.” Another set of contractors, he said, would then have to go underneath the floor panels and disconnect the electric cables and seismic rods.

Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved.
The story gets dumber. Musk had a Tesla employee buy Apple AirTags to “track” the servers, and then the process of “moving them” should make everyone cringe:
Other workers at the facility watched with a mix of amazement and horror. Musk and his renegade team were rolling servers out without putting them in crates or swaddling them in protective material, then using store-bought straps to secure them in the truck. “I’ve never loaded a semi before,” James admitted. Ross called it “terrifying.” It was like cleaning out a closet, “but the stuff in it is totally critical.”
At 3 p.m., after they had gotten four servers onto the truck, word of the caper reached the top executives at NTT, the company that owned and managed the data center. They issued orders that Musk’s team halt. Musk had the mix of glee and anger that often accompanied one of his manic surges. He called the CEO of the storage division, who told him it was impossible to move server racks without a bevy of experts. “Bulls—,” Musk explained. “We have already loaded four onto the semi.”
The CEO then told him that some of the floors could not handle more than 500 pounds of pressure, so rolling a 2,000-pound server would cause damage. Musk replied that the servers had four wheels, so the pressure at any one point was only 500 pounds. “The dude is not very good at math,” Musk told the musketeers.
Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.

I might never even ride in a Tesla after this.

And then this:
The moving contractors that NTT wanted them to use charged $200 an hour. So James went on Yelp and found a company named Extra Care Movers that would do the work at one-tenth the cost. The motley company pushed the ideal of scrappiness to its outer limits. The owner had lived on the streets for a while, then had a kid, and he was trying to turn his life around. He didn’t have a bank account, so James ended up using PayPal to pay him.
The second day, the crew wanted cash, so James went to a bank and withdrew $13,000 from his personal account. Two of the crew members had no identification, which made it hard for them to sign into the facility. But they made up for it in hustle. “You get a dollar tip for every additional server we move,” James announced at one point. From then on, when they got a new one on a truck, the workers would ask how many they were up to.
Remember, these are servers full of information, some of it sensitive, and Musk is basically hiring literally undocumented workers off the street and tipping them a dollar for each rack they can move.

And, if you think anyone at Twitter cares about the privacy of your data, think again:
The servers had user data on them, and James did not initially realize that, for privacy reasons, they were supposed to be wiped clean before being moved. “By the time we learned this, the servers had already been unplugged and rolled out, so there was no way we would roll them back, plug them in, and then wipe them,” he says. Plus, the wiping software wasn’t working. “F—, what do we do?” he asked. Elon recommended that they lock the trucks and track them.
So James sent someone to Home Depot to buy big padlocks, and they sent the combination codes on a spreadsheet to Portland so the trucks could be opened there. “I can’t believe it worked,” James says. “They all made it to Portland safely.”
This is… bad. Really bad. Like this could have been a massive disaster for an awful lot of people. This is the kind of thing that the FTC should go after Musk for. He was playing fast and loose with data that could have created very serious problems. And we have no way of knowing that the data was actually safe, despite the “big padlocks” from Home Depot.

Again, because “it worked,” some people will argue that Elon was right to do it this way. But just because your crazily stupid move didn’t create immediate chaos doesn’t mean that it’s the right move.

And, of course, it didn’t really “work.” As we detailed, Twitter toppled over a few days later, and this excerpt admits it was because of the “server move.” The article does note that Musk himself eventually said he shouldn’t have done this and it did cause a fair bit of problems for the site, including the disastrous “Twitter Spaces” where Ron DeSantis tried to launch his Presidential campaign.
“In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake,” Musk would admit in March 2023. “I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it.”
Yeah, I mean, maybe if you didn’t tell the person trying to explain stuff to you that it hurt your brain to hear the details, you would have heard them telling you things like this.

Even dumber is that the “lesson” that Walter Isaacson seems to take from this little episode is not that Musk’s impulsivity is a dangerous, out of control wrecking ball that is going to destroy some serious stuff, but that (ex)Twitter’s employees had to learn how to better “manage” the man-baby in charge:
His most valuable lieutenants at Tesla and SpaceX had learned ways to deflect his bad ideas and drip-feed him unwelcome information, but the legacy employees at X didn’t know how to handle him. That said, X survived. And the Sacramento caper showed X employees that he was serious when he spoke about the need for a maniacal sense of urgency.
There’s something to be said for pushing back on needless rules and bureaucracy, but it helps if you actually understand stuff before doing so, rather than doing something like this that had half a dozen ways it could have ended in serious disaster and possible tragedy. The fact that it “only” resulted in Twitter falling over every few weeks for months likely means that Musk and his supporters got the very wrong lesson out of this.

But the lesson I would take from it: have nothing to do with Elon Musk or any product he sells. It’s bound to be stupidly, unnecessarily risky.
 

Egad.


Will you bank with X?Elon Musk wants to turn X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, into an “everything app.” Imagine a single app for your private messaging, news consumption, shopping and even banking. In China, WeChat fills that role, and Musk has spoken publicly about replicating that model using X in other countries.

Payments are at the center of this everything app idea.
If you can’t send or spend money on X, you won’t be able to do everything. In fact, you won’t be able to do a lot of things.

Musk knows this, of course, which is why he’s building a payments product inside X. This week, Bloomberg published an in-depth look at the company’s progress on this front. We used public records requests to obtain hundreds of documents about X’s money transmitter license applications in all 50 US states.


Those documents offered a glimpse of what is to come: a Venmo-like payments feature that will let users store money on their X accounts for easy purchases and peer-to-peer transfers. Musk has even talked about offering an “extremely high yield” on balances to encourage people to leave money in their X account.

X has received payments licenses in 28 states so far, with plans to expand internationally shortly after getting up and running in the US.
By the time people eventually start sending money to their friends through X, it will have been a multiyear effort.


The reality, though, is that navigating the technical complexity and regulatory red tape is going to be the easy part. The real challenge will be convincing the world that X is now a bank. For much of the past two decades, X has been an app for doom-scrolling the news, watching celebrities create their own PR disasters and dunking on politicians. It has never been a place for shopping or paying your friends. It certainly wasn’t a place you’d store your hard-earned savings.

Others have tried turning messaging apps into the “WeChat of the West” for years without luck, including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, who has not one but two billion-user messaging services at his disposal in Messenger and WhatsApp.

One issue is that many Americans seem totally fine using different, specialized apps for different, specialized needs. Another is that most people are already using an existing competitor — Venmo, Zelle, Cash App and PayPal (which, ironically, Musk co-founded) offer a version of what Musk is building.

Luring customers away from those rivals will be tough since banking relationships are so “sticky,” said Harshita Rawat, a senior payments analyst with Bernstein. “It is very, very, very hard” to get people to change to a new bank or payments service, she said.


Musk has never been one to back away from a challenge, though, and I imagine this will be more of the same. If the everything app is going to work, he will need to change user behavior at a global scale. The difficult part is about to begin.

The title should read 'Elon Musk wants you to trust Israeli intelligence with your money'.
 
A good speech by Jack Dorsey, a former Twitter CEO, about the "free speech" dilemma.
This is going to sound a little bit crazy, but I think that the free speech debate is a complete distraction right now. I think the real debate should be about free will. And we feel it right now, because we are being programmed.

We're being programmed based on what we say we're interested in, and we are told through these discovery mechanisms what is interesting. And as we engage and interact with this content, the algorithm continues to build more and more of this bias.
But the algorithm, even if it's open source, is effectively a black box.

You cannot predict 100% of the time how it's going to work, what it's going to show you. And it can be moved and changed at any time. And because people become so dependent upon it, it's actually changing and impacting the agency we have, the free agency we have.

And I think the only answer to this is not to work harder at open sourcing algorithms or making them more explainable about what they're doing and why they're doing it, but to give people choice. Give people choice of what algorithm they want to use from a party that they trust. Give people choice to build their own algorithm that they can plug in on top of these networks and see what they want, and they can shift them out as well.

And give people choice to have really a marketplace around an algorithm that you can choose, I want to use this for these reasons, I don't trust that party anymore, so I'm not going to use this, or I'm not going to use anything at all. I want to be the discovery mechanism.
 
I caught this today during my evening news roundup, and I thought it was worth sharing, mostly because of the economic impact it will have on the state, but mainly because of what California continues to do in the name of an awful ideology that will harm so many people.

Musk moves his companies from California because of transgender law

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that prohibits requiring school personnel to notify parents of students' gender identity changes.

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk announced that his companies SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) are moving from California to Texas. The entrepreneur explained that the “straw that broke the camel's back” was a bill signed Monday by California Governor Gavin Newsom that prohibits requiring school personnel to notify parents of students' gender identity changes.

“Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and businesses, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne (Calif.) to Starbase [industrial complex near Brownsville, Texas],” the mogul wrote Tuesday on his social networks. “And X's headquarters will move to Austin,” he added.

“I made it clear to Governor Newsom a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” Musk explained.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Musk's decision “cements” his state as a “leader in space exploration.”

 
I caught this today during my evening news roundup, and I thought it was worth sharing, mostly because of the economic impact it will have on the state, but mainly because of what California continues to do in the name of an awful ideology that will harm so many people.

Musk moves his companies from California because of transgender law




I've heard Austin is the most woke city in Texas. If that's actually true, that's sort of a weird move.
 
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