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  1. CW: cw uspol, DOGE, the melon man

    Whatever you do, please don't share this as #MelonTusk won't like it 😏

    We got a DOGE staff list.

    From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.

    #uspol #fascism

    businessinsider.com/doge-staff

  2. CW: ha ha ha! Bonario umorismo

    Però se no sapete l'italiano o non conoscete l'italia, potreste non capire la battuta.

    Rappresentazione assoluta e definitiva del proteiforme concetto di #MelonTusk, hashtag emerso nell'anglosfera ma curiosamente pertinente anche da noi.

  3. Whatever you do, please don't share this as #MelonTusk won't like it 😏

    We got a DOGE staff list.

    From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.

    businessinsider.com/doge-staff

  4. CW: CW: USPOL, "Melon Tusk"

    This is wild:

    Philip Low

    I have known Elon Musk at a deep level for 14 years, well before he was a household name. We used to text frequently. He would come to my birthday party and invite me to his parties. He would tell me everything about his women problems. As sons of highly accomplished men who married venuses, were violent and lost their fortunes, and who were bullied in high school, we had a number of things in common most people cannot relate to. We would hang out together late in Los Angeles. He would visit my San Diego lab. He invested in my company.
    Elon is not a Nazi, per se.
    He is something much better, or much worse, depending on how you look at it.
    Nazis believed that an entire race was above everyone else.
    Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used to think he worked on the most important problems. When I met him, he did not presume to be a technical person — he would be the first to say that he lacked the expertise to understand certain data. That happened later. Now, he acts as if he has all the solutions.
    All his talk about getting to Mars to “maintain the light of consciousness” or about “free speech absolutism” is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds people to manipulate them. Everything Elon does is about acquiring and consolidating power. That is why he likes far right parties, because they are easier to control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion which could have gone to the people actually doing the work and innovations he is taking credit for at Tesla (the reason he does not do patents is because he would not be listed as an inventor as putting a fake inventor on a patent would kill it and moreover it would reveal the superstars behind the work). His lust for power is also why he did xAI and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with OpenAI and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies and tried to create rivals. I fired him with cause in December 2021 when he tried to undermine NV.
    Elon did two Nazi salutes.
    He did them for five main reasons:

    1. He was concerned that the “Nazi wing” of the MAGA movement, under the influence of Steve Bannon, would drive him away from Trump, somewhere in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, rather than in the West Wing which is where he wants to be. He was already feeling raw over the fact that Trump did not follow his recommendation for Treasury Secretary and that the Senate also did not pick his first choice;
    2. He was upset that he had had to go to Israel and Auschwitz to make up for agreeing with a Nazi sympathizer online and wanted to reclaim his “power” just like when he told advertisers to “go fuck yourself”. This has nothing to do with Asperger’s;
    3. There are some Jews he actually hates: Sam Altman is amongst them;
    4. He enjoys a good thrill and knew exactly what he was doing;
    5. His narcissistic self was hoping the audience would reflect his abject gesture back to him, thereby showing complete control and dominion over it, and increasing his leverage over Trump. That did not happen.
      Bottom line: Elon is not a Nazi but he did give two Nazi Salutes, which is completely unacceptable.

    [Some extra lines snipped for room]

    “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

    Sauce: https://archive.ph/6WHLP#selection-1367.174-1367.246

    #ElonMusk #MelonTusk #MelonHusk #FelonMusk #USPOL #trump #nazi #nazis

  5. J'espère qu'il y aura un effet Streisand légendaire...

    Elon Musk contre Wikipédia. Le milliardaire d’extrême droite appelle à ne pas donner à «Wokipedia», coupable de biais progressistes selon lui. Une escalade dans ses attaques contre l'encyclopédie depuis 2023.

    zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/

    #MelonTusk #Wikipédia #Wokipedia #EffetStreisand

  6. Hele, ačkoliv jsem Linuxák, tak Windows mám celkem rád. Ovšem poslední rozhodnutí ve Windows 11 mě taky trochu radikalizují:

    Elon Musk neumí nastavit Windows 11 bez účtu Microsoft, naši čtenáři ano | CHIP.cz
    chip.cz/elon-musk-neumi-nastav

    A třeba když o tom napíšu na ty internety, tak přijdou i ty miliardy? Co myslíš?

    #melontusk #Windows11 #linux

  7. Well if Mastodon doesnt see a spike is sign ups today then we know who is left at X (twitter).

    #melontusk #wtf #whosleft

  8. Elon to his girlfriend: "Would you be my X?"

  9. Parece que Melon Tusk ya transo con Google por hosting, no? Le pago la factura por PayPal :awesome: O sea que ya pueden volver? *saca la escopeta* :awesome_rotate: :awesome: agrego emojis para dejar claro que no estoy agreteando #twitter #melontusk

  10. @iLearn

    Mainly that they're cracking down on even many FOSS apps that are completely non-profit. It's a power grab and I honestly think people should respond by deleting their accounts.

    Then again, I'm Don Quixote, and I deleted my twitter account the same day confirmed he was buying , and my username is a protest against stealing 'ed (and other licensed) code, so take all that with a grain of salt.

    I'm *ALWAYS* going to tilt at the windmills. XD

  11. Peculiar (sarcastic) that this same poll on the bird site, where I have many more "followers" has like 3 votes and no comments.

    It's almost like it's suppressed and/or shadow banned...

    #twitter #Mastodon #ElonMusk #melontusk #TwitterMigration

  12. CW: Hellsite reminder

    Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter alone: Binance and the prince of Saudi Arabia helped

  13. Dans mon nom et le post épinglé sur le oiseau bleu j'ai mon compte #JohnMastodon et j'emmerde #MelonTusk

  14. Thought I'd give it another go now that Mastodon seems to be gaining some traction (thanks #MelonTusk). So I resurrected the lux.blue instance for curious friends. Let the wild rumpus begin!

  15. No entiendo tanta tontería con el tema de la verificación en las redes sociales. No tiene tanto misterio, se hace lo mismo que con los correos, se valida en un segundo canal y ya está.
    Se pregunta en persona, se mira la página web oficial, ... Tener que confiar en una empresa privada y centralizada me parece ridículo.
    #melontusk
  16. CW: CW: MelonTusk and BirdSite

    : We're gonna eliminate so many useless processes and waste!
    <<random stuff breaks all over>>

    Man, this was the story of my life in the late naughties. The rather large and stable company I work for got sold to a (Vulture Capital) group who proceeded to come in and jack things up, but not too badly. THEN the vultures almost all of MIS a couple years later in some shady dealings with a , and things *really* went to the crapper.