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Katy Bolger's avatar

It seems wrong for one person to be so powerful, and for his ever-widening circle of powerful and greedy men who all seem to be coming for government money. When I was teaching I watched the encroachment of tech into education. We knew they knew that education is comfortably funded by taxpayers and the federal government and those big piles of money looked attractive to tech: how can we get a piece of that? At first, schools pushed back against the seemingly overwhelming loss of privacy when everything and everybody was digitized but the inevitable happened and we were all digitized. So why not digitize the curriculum as well? Although that seemed an arduous and long term task, the quarantine led to all of us using Google classroom. I knew they were gobbling up our lesson plans and sure enough, AI was ready to go shortly after COVID subsided. We gave them all of our hard work for free!

In other words, these people have no scruples and they are addicted to massive wealth and power. There is only so much room at the top and the reckoning is coming.

One more thing: does Muck seem like a big whiner? All of these guys want to appear to be victims when they are criticized. He seems like he's a minute away from getting his mom on the phone to talk to you.

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Katie Galvin's avatar

His evil mommy constantly comes to his rescue on Twitter

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

Thanks Katy, I appreciate your contribution of inowledge of how tech was able to benefit from the taxpayer money allotted to our Education system.

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Lesley's avatar

amazing roundup, thank you. overload, but good to get a sense of the scope of activity / corruption.

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Ginger's avatar

He's exhausting... maybe that's his "play" not too different from dump and his drama queen reactions to everything so he can control the news... "muck & dump"

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Katie Galvin's avatar

I found myself feeling angrier and angrier as I read this installment of Musk Watch. How does he get away with everything?

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

(Not sure you'll like my answer to how does Musk get away with everything, but Trump owes Musk and Putin his presidency, so Musk has carte blanche.)

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

Wow, Caleb, you are able to cover so much of what's going on with Musk that we'd never know about if you didn't offer Musk Watch coverage! Your decision to take on the subject of MUSK gave you an enormous work load and the challenge to knit all of Musk's hats into one subject. My conclusion: there's a reason we DO NOT wear two hats (much less 4) at the same time. Musk's projects are all falling apart..., and he has earned widespread animosity for his reckless destruction of much that our government has brilliantly created over the decades.

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Darrell T's avatar

So Tesla doubles down on Nazis running the company. Good to know.

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Becky Daiss's avatar

A cadre of clueless losers with the orange menace and his equally disturbed and creepy two hat sidekick leading the pack.

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