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Elon Puts Kid Who Just Graduated From High School in Charge of Disemboweling the US Government (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

"One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online resume touts his work for Palantir," per Wired, while another "who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024." A copy of the latter's resume include his summer internship with Musk's Neuralink, alongside jobs as — we assure you that we are not joking — a camp counselor and bike mechanic.

Although both these tykes are ostensibly poised to rip and tear through America's federal agencies, Wired declined to name them "because of their ages" — a somewhat baffling choice given that both appear to be of legal age. (And if they're not, well, that's a much bigger problem.)

At least the 5th article shitting on wired for not naming them...

But no one else has the names besides Wired?

Like, I agree they should disclose the names, but I don't understand why no one else can find out who these "kids" are.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 hours ago

Most "news" sites don't partake in actual journalism, they just shit out news from other sites. It's kind of like the human centipede, it's all shit beyond a single, original source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

How do I get myself into this position to ruin Musk's job?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently he had an internship at neurolink?

With people like this you just have to get in their orbit and tell them what they want to hear.

Musk has always wanted children to think he's cool, and he weirdly does a good job of appealing to them. So I guess be as young as possible and tell him his a multi-talented genius and voice of his generation?

Just throw all your integrity out the window basically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's the second time I heard about this internship under the post about the same article, and the more I hear about it, the darker my feelings grow about this first Musk's fuckup at calling a child rescuer a pedophile. This accusation is empty, yet it won't surprise anyone if he does that too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Suck his cock

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

High school in the US goes up until you are 20? Or was he behind a couple of years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

while another “who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024.

So two people.

In the quoted part it only gives the age of the 21 year old, and says when the 19 year old graduated.

Various articles are providing the same info in different ways about them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I see, kinda confusing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

The 21 year old is a separate person.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They're trying to eat their cake and have it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Nice to see someone else who gets the saying right that didn’t hole up in a cabin in the woods.