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Faiz Siddiqui

@faizsays.bsky.social

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Washington Post tech journalist writing a lot about Elon Musk, Twitter, Tesla. My book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk (St. Martin’s) is in stores NOW! How to buy: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/hubris-maximus-9781250327178/

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hello bskyers, My upcoming book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk, is up for pre-order. It delves into the playbook Musk is using today, providing the definitive look at the 6 yrs that transformed his reputation. Out May 6! Use PREORDER25 at B&N
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Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk

The rise, fall, and revival of the Caesar of Silicon Valley. Elon Musk has cast himself as the savior of humanity, an altruistic force whose fortune is tied to noble pursuits from halting our dependen...

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lizzalichka.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: I went to Mexico to see a generation of babies being conceived through AI & robotic IVF - automated systems w/no human involvement. It’s a deeply human story about the global infertility crisis and whether tech can scale the most precious thing we have: human life.
Gifted here: wapo.st/3Kt4u26

Robots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born.

One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 8d

read this to understand the impact of DOGE cuts on human lives

Trump's USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. wapo.st/46GSwcv

Part of a Washington Post story detailing Elon Musk's comments on DOGE and the freeze of aid to countries and regions in desperate need of food and medicine

The impact of the aid freeze on a 7-year-old child who relied on medication obtained from USAID

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9d

The spent grease that restaurants unload as waste has become a valuable commodity.

If you’ve been on a plane lately, there’s a chance that used cooking oil has helped launch you into the sky.

The used oil from your french fry order may be fueling your next flight

We followed the trail of grease from the kitchens of Le Diplomat and other D.C. restaurants to the commercial planes using alternative fuels.

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Jada Chin @jadachin.bsky.social · 15d

Opinion: There is friction between the Federal Trade Commission’s ‘Made in USA’ standard and the California ‘Made in USA’ law.

CA’s ‘Made in USA’ Safe Harbors Don’t Guarantee FTC Compliance

Opinion: Reed Smith's Julia Solomon Ensor examines the friction between the Federal Trade Commission’s 'Made in USA' standard and the California 'Made in USA' law.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 22d

“If you create this precedent, do you think it’ll be the last time it’ll be used?”
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More employers fire workers over Kirk posts as pressure from right mounts

Actions by employers have stirred a debate over employees’ speech rights, the role of pressure campaigns and what is appropriate public debate after an violent event.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 24d

Starting to think there may be a pattern with this guy

On X, the platform he owns, Elon Musk promotes an unfounded theory on the murder of Charlie Kirk — echoing his earlier embrace of a conspiracy theory around the attack on Paul Pelosi, which he deleted and apologized for

Around three years earlier, Elon Musk posts an unfounded theory on the circumstances of the attack against Paul Pelosi, which he will later delete

Musk later apologized for his post on the Paul Pelosi attack

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 26d

Much of Denholm's own wealth derives from her position on the Tesla board. Musk said he hand-picked her as chair and it was unrealistic that she'd be a check on him. "I am the largest shareholder in the company and I can just call for a shareholder vote and get anything done that I want."

An excerpt from Hubris Maximus laying out how the dynamics on the Tesla board continued to favor Elon Musk despite his loss of the chairman role.

An excerpt from Hubris Maximus citing a 60 Minutes interview in which Elon Musk says that, despite Robyn Denholm's position as Tesla board chair, he "can just call for a shareholder vote and get anything done that I want."

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 26d

yet the owner of the other platform supposedly had it figured out within minutes

Elon Musk's reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk, calling the left "the party of murder"

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tesla just offered Elon Musk a $1T pay package. It's more than 18x Musk's prior deal, itself "250 times larger than the contemporaneous median peer compensation plan and over 33 times larger than the plan's closest comparison....Musk's [2012] compensation plan" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tesla offers Elon Musk pay package worth $1 trillion — with conditions

The electric-vehicle maker’s board proposed a compensation agreement that would dramatically increase the CEO’s personal wealth over the course of a decade.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 29

In a last-ditch effort to locate the data, the plaintiffs obtained the Autopilot computer from the Florida Highway Patrol. They turned to
greentheonly, known for his work recovering data from damaged Teslas. They won a $243 million verdict this month. wapo.st/46dCoQI

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.

The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 29

But it almost didn't happen. The plaintiffs had been preparing to go to trial without the data. “if they were able to drag this on a little longer, or the plaintiff couldn’t ... get the Autopilot [computer] cloned in time," one Tesla observer said, the case could've gone differently wapo.st/46dCoQI

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.

The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 29

greentheonly's findings proved crucial to a $243 million verdict against the company headed by Elon Musk. The dispute over accessibility to the data likely had a "significant impact" on the outcome, a person close to Tesla said

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Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.

The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 29

The collision snapshot showing how the wreck unfolded had been "unlinked" from the car at the scene the night of the crash. Tesla couldn't find it on its servers either. The hacker, known as 'greentheonly,' found the data five years later while sipping a hot chocolate in a Starbucks. wapo.st/46dCoQI

The workspace belonging to greentheonly, strewn with wires and assorted circuit boards.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 29

New: After a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a Florida couple in 2019, killing a 22-year-old woman, crucial data detailing how the wreck unfolded was missing, unable to be located for years. A hacker found it and Tesla said in court it had been on its own servers all along.

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Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.

The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 16

folks, it's as good as time as ever to pick up a copy of my book, Hubris Maximus: the Shattering of Elon Musk. It's part of Barnes & Noble's annual Book Haul and from Aug. 14 through Sept. 1, you
can get it for $15 😱😱😱

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A screenshot of HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk showing it is 50% off for Barnes & Noble's annual Book Haul sale.

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 16

A sampling of what folks have said about HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk.

Ralph Nader called it a "very important book." Wajahat Ali said it "shatters the manufactured myth of [Musk's] alleged genius." Taylor Lorenz called it "masterful cultural critique."

All this for $15(!!)

A screenshot showing various quotes on HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk, from figures including Ralph Nader, Wajahat Ali, Taylor Lorenz, Bradley Hope and others. The book has been called "very gripping" and "masterful cultural critique."

Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 16

There are so many great titles available as part of the sale -- I spot @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social here as well 👀 and the insider account of Facebook from Sarah Wynn-Williams, among others, so check it out regardless!

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Long Lead @longlead.com · Aug 8

To hear more from Siddiqui's Musk coverage and to learn how the tech billionaire became radicalized by his own Twitter feed, listen to the season finale of LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET — "The Red Pill" — wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

The Red Pill

Podcast Episode · Long Shadow · S4 E7 · 1h 4m

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Long Lead @longlead.com · Aug 8

After years of covering Elon Musk, @washingtonpost.com tech reporter @faizsays.bsky.social has written a book about him, sharing he "wanted to tell the story of the reality ... faced by those who worked for him, those who bought his products, and those who are otherwise impacted by his actions.”

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Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Lots of ways to show how huge Big Tech's AI spending spree is but my fav is probably that it's bigger than all the money they spent from 2010-2022
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The AI spending boom could have real consequences for the U.S. economy

As revisions to U.S. jobs numbers call into question economic growth, Big Tech is becoming an even more important part of American prosperity.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 4

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 31

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · Aug 1

TW, graphic: Here is the first few seconds of dash-cam footage of the Autopilot crash for which a jury found Tesla partially liable today, obtained by The Washington Post in 2023. wapo.st/3J1gZ49

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