The Times lays out, in as gentlemanly terms as possible, how fucked up this would be:

It would \[…] bring into sharp relief the questions about Mr. Musk’s conflicts of interest as he ranges widely across the federal bureaucracy while continuing to run businesses that are major government contractors. In this case, Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, is a leading supplier to the Pentagon and has extensive financial interests in China. > >So our educated hypothesis on this remains “got caught, deny, deny, deny.” (Adding support to that hypothesis is that Elon is now [whining and promising](https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-pentagon-leakers-new-york-times-briefing-china-war/) that “those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information” will be prosecuted. How does one “leak” maliciously *false* information, praytell, Mr. South African nepo dipfuck?)

. . . The *Times* notes that the *Wall Street Journal* also [independently confirmed](https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/musk-to-receive-top-secret-briefing-on-u-s-war-plans-for-china-922eafdf?mod=hp_lead_pos1) that Elon was invited for the China Secrets briefing, and adds in the very next paragraph “Whatever the meeting will now be about …” as a transition phrase. So that’s funny. Also funny? Josh Marshall [notes](https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lkuavzmbss2i) that the *Wall Street Journal* confirmed the story *after* Trump denied it.

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The Times lays out, in as gentlemanly terms as possible, how fucked up this would be:

It would […] bring into sharp relief the questions about Mr. Musk’s conflicts of interest as he ranges widely across the federal bureaucracy while continuing to run businesses that are major government contractors. In this case, Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, is a leading supplier to the Pentagon and has extensive financial interests in China.

So our educated hypothesis on this remains “got caught, deny, deny, deny.” (Adding support to that hypothesis is that Elon is now whining and promising that “those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information” will be prosecuted. How does one “leak” maliciously false information, praytell, Mr. South African nepo dipfuck?)

. . . The Times notes that the Wall Street Journal also independently confirmed that Elon was invited for the China Secrets briefing, and adds in the very next paragraph “Whatever the meeting will now be about …” as a transition phrase. So that’s funny. Also funny? Josh Marshall notes that the Wall Street Journal confirmed the story after Trump denied it.

IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he could see 30% of back-office functions replaced by AI over 5 years.

What a difference two years makes? Or, just having it both ways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

wait wait wait - you’re saying the industry most associated with destroying all life on the planet, in the full knowledge of doing so, is also making prices rise??

Fun fact: free energy isn’t being researched because it would destroy global economics. . . among, other reasons.

Oh don’t worry - FEMA will still be there. Only instead of providing shelter and food, they’ll be arresting everyone and transferring them to “camps” in El Salvador. /s?

Y’know back in the 80’s there was a wild conspiracy theory that the government was going to take over and put everyone in camps under a secret organization known as FEMA that had the power to suspend the Constitution.

At the time, no one had heard of FEMA and conspiracy theorists were, as per usual, mocked for believing the government had gone to the trouble of creating an agency just to ship people off to camps.

They were also mocked for saying the government recorded all the communications going in and out of the country.

Good times. Good times.

Boobookin’!

Gosh those are tiny little superbowls.

Oh boy half the comments in here I can’t see because I blocked people. Hee hee!

Well, whatever you’re saying, I’m glad I can’t see it.

Thanks Obama!

“Whew, not a bad catch day - only a few more left. If it wasn’t for this itchy bum . . . well, . … there’s no photographers around . . . Just one little scratch won’t-”

*click*

“OH Come O- . . . DANGIT!”

Hungary, Hungary, Hungary.

Excellent work non-voting lefties! YES! Gaza is being decimated and official no-stopping-industrial-pollution to boot!

Tell us what your secret to geniusosity is!

Excellent shot, beautiful Snowy.

But it’s “all of a sudden.” All of a sudden.

wtf you talkin’ about willis? Society hasn’t figured out to delete fucking facebook and you want them to understand politics?

Seig!

So you know your friends that still have a Xitter account? And they have “reasons” for it?

Give them shit. TONS of shit. Rag on them til they drop it. It’s way past time.

I think she looks like a thumb.