Enough Musk Spam

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-vows-to-back-donald-trumps-nemesis-as-their-feud-explodes/

As of June 25, 55.1 percent of Americans viewed Elon Musk unfavorably, while 37 percent had a favorable opinion—a sharp shift from early 2024, when the numbers were roughly even, according to Silver Bulletin.

"Musk is still popular among Republicans, but he's less popular than he used to be and less popular than other Republican figures," elections analyst Eli McKown-Dawson wrote.

Federal workers are not clueless children and don’t need a multipage memo to tell them when it’s a good idea to buy bottled water for thirsty troops, nor are they hobbyists who enjoy writing such inane documents. Employees write those memos because they are documents workers can point to when a judge or a committee asks them why they did what they did.

A turnaround expert, having assessed these realities, would understand that they needed to reform the system, not the head count. They’d have gone to Congress with a package of major civil service and procurement reforms that made it easier to hire and fire workers for good cause but, more important, made it easier for those workers to do a good job. And they’d have identified a leader to implement this turnaround who can spend the years of single-minded focus it will take to build a better system, rather than giving the job to a CEO on a time-limited break from running his other companies.

Instead, Musk entered the political spotlight for a few months, started tinkering with the system before he understood how it worked, and left when the president’s attention wandered. The result was just one more failed government program.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/32701703

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.

Then retrain on that.

Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

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Exploding rockets, billion-dollar losses, and a Trump cold shoulder: Elon Musk’s empire is running on fumes

In Musk’s quest for smaller government, DOGE has gutted an already under resourced federal public service, cutting about 260,000 employees from a workforce of 2.3 million. The cuts went so deep the Trump administration is reportedly bringing people back in departments across the government as key services like weather prediction and drug approval have suffered. Air traffic control at airports around the country is struggling after reckless intervention by DOGE and its gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has left the public at the mercy of predatory companies.

But those consequences appear quaint when compared to the blood on Musk’s hands from the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has left food rotting in warehouses instead of going to those who need it and desperate people being denied life-saving medications. A million children are likely to lose treatment for malnutrition as a result, which could lead to 160,000 additional kids dying every year. The cuts to USAID have already killed over 300,000 people, according to estimates by Boston University associate professor of global health Brooke Nichols, with about 100 more dying with every passing hour.

The gutting of USAID has also impacted the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), cutting off treatment to hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive pregnant women. As a result, more than 135,000 babies are estimated to be born with HIV that otherwise would not have been, and they’re then unlikely to get diagnosed or properly treated for the disease. For all that suffering, DOGE will not save the government $1 trillion as Musk once promised. Experts believe the savings will be far less than even the revised $175 billion figure, and could be fully negated by the costs of carrying out the cuts in the first place.

https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1932695486684950962#m