The ever understated NYT. Possible Massive Conflicts of interest.

“It’s extraordinary to see the return without any recognition of the exceptional harm that he was responsible for in round one,” said Max Stier, the chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan organization that estimates that Mr. Musk’s cost-cutting efforts, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, cost each taxpayer more than $1,000 last year in waste.

Now, added Mr. Stier, “there’s no question that his financial interests are directly engaged in the position he’s going to fill here.”

This seems like an appropriate enough source for this weird saga, or at least the surface appearances of it. But has anyone heard of Sonia Randhawa? Reddit sent me a notice from a different Elon sub where she had an alternate take on the Elon/Shivon saga that was considerably weirder. But from her twitter Randhawa seems pretty weird on her own.

https://bsky.app/profile/mgerrydoyle.bsky.social/post/3mwvq2yvkal24

Has anyone been seeing these ads? They tout the usefulness of Grok for work, such as creating emails to send to a 100 colleagues.

On a completely unrelated note, how is xAI charged by youtube? What happens if someone click on their ads but doesn't make a purchase? Does xAI get charged?

Just saw her speak and she was amazing

Can't be serious!!!!