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📍 Waterloo
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If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Never was there a profession less in need of “disruption” than air traffic control
March 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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1. This was the mission statement of conservative publications on college campuses circa 2000.

2. As if the Overton Window of acceptable ideas in corporate media wasn't already comically constrained.

3. Activist billionaires are destabilizing forces to market economies and democracies. Enough.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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NEW: WIRED has identified six young men, all between the ages of 19-24, who have negligible experience but are now playing critical roles in Elon Musk's takeover of the U.S. government.

From @telliotter.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM