Category: Elon Musk

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Elon Musk vs home-working slackers is a battle for the future of America – The Telegraph

The DOGE head has no chance of cutting spending massively if WFH remains the federal bureaucratic norm

Elon Musk has not yet started walking through the lobbies of federal government offices carrying a kitchen sink. Nor has he started demanding that only the “hardcore” staffers bother coming to work in the morning. Even so, he has fired the first shot in what promises to be a bitter fight with the one million people on the federal payroll eligible for some form of remote work with […]
Elon Musk vs home-working slackers is a battle for the future of America – The Telegraph

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The More You Learn About Elon Musk's DOGE, the Less Sense It Makes

Earlier this week, I wrote about the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and its vague but audacious plans for reforming the executive branch after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two men leading the project, have largely spoken about it only in hazy terms—at least until now. The clarity that they have offered is unlikely to satisfy its critics or doubters, to say the least.
The op-ed opens with a certain lack of self-awareness. “Our […]
The More You Learn About Elon Musk's DOGE, the Less Sense It Makes

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Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works – The New York Times

For the first 53 years of his life, Elon Musk barely spent any time with Donald J. Trump. Then, beginning on the night of Nov. 5, he spent basically no time without him.
And so Mr. Musk, more than any other key player in the presidential transition, finds himself in a cram session to learn the courtier politics of Mr. Trump’s inner circle. For the world’s richest person — not known for his humility or patience — it is a social engineering challenge far trickier and less familiar than […]
Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works – The New York Times

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Elon Musk impersonator from Florida arrested for scamming elderly woman – LEX18

A 56-year-old Bradenton, Florida man was arrested on Wednesday after police say he impersonated Elon Musk online to scam an elderly woman.
Jeffrey Arthur Moynihan, Jr., 56, is charged with defrauding the 74-year-old Texas woman out of $250,000, but the actual sum could be much higher.
In 2023, police said the victim befriended “Elon Musk” on Facebook. They exchanged messages for several months before he offered her an investment opportunity since they were “friends.”
“He suggested that if […]
Elon Musk impersonator from Florida arrested for scamming elderly woman – LEX18

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Elon Musk's Father Is Worried About Him – Futurism

Elon Musk's estranged father, Errol Musk, is concerned that his son is stretching himself too thin. 
"Elon has no eyes on anything more than trying to make sure that whatever he does now… he's able to give a proper job without affecting his own work," he said in a recent interview with the Saudi state-owned news channel Al Arabiya. 
"I think that would be a big concern to him," he continued. "Many of the meetings… he has to make with his existing […]
Elon Musk's Father Is Worried About Him – Futurism

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Elon Musk's DOGE Takes Aim At Federal Agencies—Here's Where Cuts Could Be Made

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the upcoming Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency commission, also known as “DOGE”, have vowed to slash federal spending by “at least $2 trillion,” Musk suggested last month at a Trump rally—targeting agencies like the Pentagon and the Education Department—though it’s unclear how he arrived at that figure.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024. (Photo by Saul Martinez for The […]
Elon Musk's DOGE Takes Aim At Federal Agencies—Here's Where Cuts Could Be Made

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Elon Musk's new DOGE plans are actually old ideas about mass deregulation – The Verge

By Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have laid out their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a currently nonexistent entity they say will “cut the federal government down to size.” Though DOGE isn’t a real department — and may in fact just be President-elect Donald Trump’s way of placating Musk by giving him the […]
Elon Musk's new DOGE plans are actually old ideas about mass deregulation – The Verge

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Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. This book offers a reality check | CNN

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The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances.

But the reality would be dreadful, according to one book that argues that Elon Musk’s intention to settle the red planet within the next 30 years is doomed to […]
Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. This book offers a reality check | CNN

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Jeff Bezos denies Tesla stock story and shares a laugh with Elon Musk – Teslarati

Jeff Bezos has officially denied the story that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was told regarding the former Amazon CEO’s warning to sell Tesla and SpaceX stock due to a potential Kamala Harris presidency.
Bezos and Musk appeared to bury the hatchet and share a laugh on social media platform X.
Earlier today, we reported that Musk had heard Bezos was warning people to sell their Tesla and SpaceX shares because Donald Trump was feared to be losing the U.S. Presidential race.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes […]
Jeff Bezos denies Tesla stock story and shares a laugh with Elon Musk – Teslarati

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Florida man accused of posing as Elon Musk, defrauding elderly woman of $250K

Jeffrey Arthur Moynihan Jr., 56, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with grand theft. (Bradenton Police Department)
A Florida man has been arrested after impersonating tech billionaire Elon Musk in a bid to scam an elderly woman out of at least a quarter of a million dollars, according to police.
Jeffrey Arthur Moynihan Jr. was arrested at his Bradenton home Tuesday night and charged with grand theft. 
While reportedly operating under the guise of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, the […]
Florida man accused of posing as Elon Musk, defrauding elderly woman of $250K