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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-social-media-posts.html

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” according to the Journal.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, according to the newspaper.

In June, the account tweeted, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Elez resigned after the Journal inquired about the account.

A White House official confirmed Elez’s resignation to CNBC.

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4 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

What do we say here about speaking out?  "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."  

You know what they say in Japan?  "The nail that sticks out, gets hammered down."

There's all you need to know about that. 

Yeah, I have attempted to study Asian business and innovation culture, and that seems to be the thing.  The deferential, polite, "top-down" aspects of their cultures and societies seems to work against innovation except possibly "improvements" on the "original" ideas of others.  They are certainly good at the latter.

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13 minutes ago, Captainant said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-social-media-posts.html

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” according to the Journal.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, according to the newspaper.

In June, the account tweeted, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Elez resigned after the Journal inquired about the account.

A White House official confirmed Elez’s resignation to CNBC.

I tried to Google this guy (duckduckgo actually ftr), and this particular chud never showed up.  But there are a number of Marko Elezes in the world, all Serbian.

Serbians have a recent record not altogether different from Afrikaaners.

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2 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

Absolutely.  Not to mention that critical thinking skills, especially those of the nonlinear kind, are not developed through STEM.  That comes from liberal arts.  Kids are getting little history, little civics, and almost no critical thinking development.  They're getting heaps of STEM thrown at them to the detriment of all else, and they're still not doing well collectively in STEM.  This country has never seen a problem it couldn't severely overcorrect for.  It's who we are.  STEM scores are looking bad relative to other countries?  Let's throw out and demonize everything else and only focus on that!   Girls are struggling in schools?  Let's make them inhospitable to boys!  We, as a nation, are incapable of nuance or balance.  We're exactly what our stereotype says we are: fat, loud, and dense. 

One great result of all of this is we've got a couple of generations, so far, whose leaders are those handful of linear-thinking STEM kids who rose to the top.  They can't communicate, can't think outside of a straight line, and unironically mistake "disruption" for creative thinking.    These are the folks venerated by youth in this country, and it's because we made can this way.

As a person who went from STEM to something of the ultimate in applied liberal arts, law, there's a lot to this.

One aspect of a lot of technical work and education is that you try to simplify problems and make certain assumptions about things and ignore "noise" if you can.  Whereas in addressing societal issues, you can't assume very much or ignore much noise, because that is often exactly where the problem lies.

This in itself is an oversimplification as part of technical problem solving does involve figuring out which assumptions can be made and what "noise" can and can't be successfully ignored.  Technical people tend to do that deductively, while non-technical do it inductively.

This shit is a classic case of deductive experimentation.

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On 2/4/2025 at 9:19 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Elez, according to public databases and other records reviewed by WIRED, is a 25-year-old who graduated Rutgers University

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44 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I tried to Google this guy (duckduckgo actually ftr), and this particular chud never showed up.  But there are a number of Marko Elezes in the world, all Serbian.

Serbians have a recent record not altogether different from Afrikaaners.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Fucking script kiddies 

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Uhhh. Reminds me of the time, we "hired" the CEO's admin assistant's son as a developer. His email got flagged because he was asking how to write fucking ADSI scripts from someone over company email. He was quickly moved over to project management.

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7 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

Absolutely.  Not to mention that critical thinking skills, especially those of the nonlinear kind, are not developed through STEM.  That comes from liberal arts.  Kids are getting little history, little civics, and almost no critical thinking development.  They're getting heaps of STEM thrown at them to the detriment of all else, and they're still not doing well collectively in STEM.  This country has never seen a problem it couldn't severely overcorrect for.  It's who we are.  STEM scores are looking bad relative to other countries?  Let's throw out and demonize everything else and only focus on that!   Girls are struggling in schools?  Let's make them inhospitable to boys!  We, as a nation, are incapable of nuance or balance.  We're exactly what our stereotype says we are: fat, loud, and dense. 

One great result of all of this is we've got a couple of generations, so far, whose leaders are those handful of linear-thinking STEM kids who rose to the top.  They can't communicate, can't think outside of a straight line, and unironically mistake "disruption" for creative thinking.    These are the folks venerated by youth in this country, and it's because we made them this way.

It has been studied. Engineers and doctors become extremists. philosophers give them the rationale, but rarely go full on extremist. It is the STEM leads who do. They cannot see color. They only see black and white. Right and wrong.

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21 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

These morons quite literally see LLMs as essentially magic. 

And they do not understand what classified information or security means. Because you know whatever they’re feeding it to is on the Internet.

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12 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And they do not understand what classified information or security means. Because you know whatever they’re feeding it to is on the Internet.

That’s all just bureaucratic red tape that gets in the way of progress! Same with that dusty old constitution. Musk is a useful idiot doing immediate damage to the United States and the big winner here is China. 

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9 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

It has been studied. Engineers and doctors become extremists. philosophers give them the rationale, but rarely go full on extremist. It is the STEM leads who do. They cannot see color. They only see black and white. Right and wrong.

Yeah, this goes back to what I was saying.  One of the fundamental tools of engineering analysis is to make assumptions and ignore factors ("noise") that you know exist but hope don't affect the outcome.  Ordinarily, those assumptions and ignored factors are based on sound reasoning, that is something that you believe to be of such small relative magnitude that it can be successfully ignored, or that you have great difficulty analyzing/calculating so you hope you can ignore.  But you won't know until you see the outcome, then you go back and "adjust."  So, to an extent, "move fast and break things."

But when you're talking socio-economic-philosophical-political things, it's not as easy to do that and the assumptions and ignored factors often swallow correct answers whole and destroy good outcomes.  Plus, there's not as much reasoned basis for making assumptions and ignoring noise:  it winds up being dictated by personal biases, ie "feels."  Thus, extremism masquerading as logical thought.

This is not a completely binary thing, though.  What I'll call "left-brain thinking" (scientists, engineers) has value in the "right-brain" sphere, and vice-versa.  But these are the initial tendencies.

 

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31 minutes ago, B00M said:

That’s all just bureaucratic red tape that gets in the way of progress! Same with that dusty old constitution. Musk is a useful idiot doing immediate damage to the United States and the big winner here is China. 

Thing is - that's just unprofessional. Data classification exists in every organization, hell I just had to re-up my compliance training on that with the new year and I certainly don't work for the government.

These idiot children are going to crash grandaddy's old jalopy and we're all gonna end up paying to replace it

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasury-x-staff.html

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Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk on Friday launched a poll on his social media platform X asking users if a staffer at his DOGE team should be rehired after resigning over the exposure of tweets advocating for racism and eugenics.

“Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?” Musk wrote on a tweet, which carried the options “yes” and “no” for users to click on.

 

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1 minute ago, B00M said:

can someone re-prompt this thing to at least be funny? 

It's basically the same thing he said on Jan6, which is also what's basically happening now except they're in power

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I hate the discourse about Musk and his drug use. That some external product is the cause of his behavior and viewpoints. It's a copout. 

Elon is a sociopath. He has a personality disorder. 

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https://www.newsweek.com/doge-emails-went-out-federal-judges-mistake-2027514

DOGE Emails Went Out to Federal Judges by Mistake

 

Spoiler

One of the people who received an email from allies of Elon Musk was a federal judge overseeing a lawsuit aimed at blocking these messages

"I, like probably every other judge in the country, also received the [Office of Personnel Management] email," U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss said during a hearing related to the lawsuit on Thursday. "I did not respond to it. I suspect it was sent to the judges by mistake."

Newsweek reached out to the Department of Government Efficiency for comment via email on Thursday.

This is the fork in the road email they sent out, more info in the article.

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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, this goes back to what I was saying.  One of the fundamental tools of engineering analysis is to make assumptions and ignore factors ("noise") that you know exist but hope don't affect the outcome.  Ordinarily, those assumptions and ignored factors are based on sound reasoning, that is something that you believe to be of such small relative magnitude that it can be successfully ignored, or that you have great difficulty analyzing/calculating so you hope you can ignore.  But you won't know until you see the outcome, then you go back and "adjust."  So, to an extent, "move fast and break things."

But when you're talking socio-economic-philosophical-political things, it's not as easy to do that and the assumptions and ignored factors often swallow correct answers whole and destroy good outcomes.  Plus, there's not as much reasoned basis for making assumptions and ignoring noise:  it winds up being dictated by personal biases, ie "feels."  Thus, extremism masquerading as logical thought.

This is not a completely binary thing, though.  What I'll call "left-brain thinking" (scientists, engineers) has value in the "right-brain" sphere, and vice-versa.  But these are the initial tendencies.

 

Maybe people should shut the fuck up and listen to each other.

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5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Mr Free Speech wants the WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE engineer Marko Elez's racist tweets fired.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-demands-firing-of-disgusting-and-cruel-wsj-reporter-who-uncovered-doge-employees-racist-tweets/

FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!  END CENSORSHIP!

These chucklefucks are just another authoritarian fascist regime.  They aren't even fucking original.

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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

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They keep on confirming they don’t know shit about how the government works.  Which is to be expected of a bunch of 19-25 year-olds

And Elon Musk

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5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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Obviously trying to drive a wedge there between Elon and Trump. Normally I think it would have a good chance of success, but I think it's very useful to Trump to have people up in arms about Elon. It's distracting from him and the other stuff he's trying to get done.

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1 minute ago, SBR said:

Obviously trying to drive a wedge there between Elon and Trump. Normally I think it would have a good chance of success, but I think it's very useful to Trump to have people up in arms about Elon. It's distracting from him and the other stuff he's trying to get done.

That's implying he knows what he's doing. I don't think he does. They let him concentrate on the real issues -- plastic straws, trans-people in women's sports, renaming the Gulf and Denali -- while the real deviants are pushing the important shit down our throats. One thing to count on with Trump is an emotional reaction if it starts to be perceived that he's not the one calling the shots or getting the credit that's due. That drives him insane.

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31 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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"Triggered" is a bit over the top, but come on.  The same Time magazine that put him on the cover as "Man of the Year" a month ago, and he doesn't know if they're still in business...

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"Triggered" is a bit over the top, but come on.  The same Time magazine that put him on the cover as "Man of the Year" a month ago, and he doesn't know if they're still in business...
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He certainly looks annoyed.

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