Some photos from today's belated 50501 / #Indivisible / #HandsOff #protest and march in #Memphis #Tennessee! (Last week was postponed due to tornadoes and flooding.)
There was a boisterous crowd of several hundred awesome people, plus a few radical leftist good dogs. Signs spanned all the topics: #Trump, #ElonMusk, #DOGE, #Ukraine, #xAI, #SocialSecurity, the #IRS, #science...
Crosswalk buttons were hacked in Palo Alto, California and vicinity.
"In one video, taken on Saturday morning ... in Redwood City, a voice claiming to be Zuckerberg says that 'it’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.'”
#BoycottTesla 
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Ukrainian MFA criticizes Musk’s pro-Kremlin Neo-Nazi social network X for censoring Russian war crimes involving Ukrainian children (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3981251-ukrainian-mfa-criticizes-social-network-x-for-censoring-russian-crimes-against-ukrainian-children.html #Ukraine #BoycottMusk #BoycottX #Tesla #X #Musk #ElonMusk #BoycottSpaceX #SpaceX #Starlink #BoycottStarlink #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Hackathon: IRS and DOGE want to lift tax data of US citizens in Palantir
Sensitive data from US taxpayers is to be merged into Palantir using a large API. This should take around 30 days.
Group of ex-OpenAI employees back Musk's lawsuit to halt OpenAI restructure
> A dozen former #OpenAI employees filed a legal brief on Friday backing co-founder #ElonMusk's lawsuit aimed at keeping the non-profit status of OpenAI
> Corporate leaders want to give investors control, drawing a host of concerns and a lawsuit from Musk and others who say business interests must be subordinated to humanitarian goals. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/group-ex-openai-employees-back-musks-lawsuit-halt-openai-restructure-5061286 #AI #artificialintelligence
Irish regulator investigates X over use of EU personal data to train Grok AI
> The inquiry will look at "the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the X social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models," the DPC said in a statement.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/irish-regulator-investigates-x-over-use-eu-personal-data-train-grok-ai-5060216 #artificialinteligence #AI #grok #ElonMusk #EU #Ireland
When Democrats are in control, the contracts given to SpaceX need to be reevaluated. There are unnecessary national security risks with Elon Musk's involvement.
trump’s Masters have spoken…
What’s next to be exempt?
“Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs”
#usa #us #uspol #USPolitics #trump #donaldtrump #gop #maga #musk #elonmusk #doge #tesla #economy #tariff #tariffs #trade #eu #europe #europa #uk #canada #farright #recession #depression #greenland #denmark #democracy #humanrights #civilrights #apple #iphone
“ ‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down
Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters – and surrounded by yes men”
#usa #us #uspol #USPolitics #trump #donaldtrump #gop #maga #musk #elonmusk #doge #tesla #economy #tariff #tariffs #trade #eu #europe #europa #uk #canada #farright #recession #depression #greenland #denmark #democracy #humanrights #civilrights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/trump-king-economy-golf
Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of tech experts, had pushed back on the #Trump admin’s plan to move the migrants’ names into a #SocialSecurity death database, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages &, ofcls hoped, spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pearre had clashed w/Scott Coulter, the new chief info officer installed by #ElonMusk. Pearre told Coulter that the plan was #illegal, #cruel & risked declaring the wrong people dead.…
Hackathon: IRS und DOGE wollen Steuerdaten der US-Bürger in Palantir heben
Mit einer großen API sollen sensible Daten von US-Steuerzahlern in Palantir zusammenwandern. Rund 30 Tage soll das dauern.
"PayPal-Mafia": Wie Apartheid und Nazi-Verehrung die Trump-Oligarchen Musk, Thiel prägten
Ist es Zufall, dass Paypal-Gründer wie Elon Musk und Peter Thiel in Südafrika aufwuchsen? Über Musks Neonazi-Großvater und Hitler-Grüße in Thiels Kindheit.
In an interview with CNBC, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak criticized Elon Musk’s handling of DOGE, calling its government layoffs a "sledgehammer" approach. He also slammed Tesla's vehicle quality and claimed he was blocked on X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ochn8GPj11E&t=22s
#tesla #elonmusk #telsatakedown
The EU will probe the use of personal data by X's AI chatbot.
Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, launched an inquiry on Friday into the use of personal data posted on Elon Musk's social media platform by EU users, to train its AI chatbot, Grok.
@anneroth #TikTok & #Instagram & #x & #microbloging ist keine #Bildung,sondern Inbegriff v #fakenews & #manipulation durch #ki #ai & #nazis & #rechtsextreme & #narzissten wie #elonmusk & #noafd & #putin & #china usw usw
I got two for 5 bucks that I’m using for planters.
A record number of used Teslas have flooded the market as Elon Musk backlash continues
https://www.businessinsider.com/used-tesla-listings-record-high-march-elon-musk-protests-2025-4
Well, then he’s hardly earning his keep! I mean, you could find $150B in the sofa cushions, for fuck’s sake.
Elon Musk drastically drops DOGE’s savings goal from $2 trillion to $150 billion for the year
https://fortune.com/2025/04/11/elon-musk-drastically-drops-doge-savings-goal-2-trillion-150-billion-year/
https://youtu.be/pVbFqzgS6Q4️Musk’s crawling through your personal data (The Lincoln Project) #Ukraine #Mastodon #BoycottMusk #BoycottTesla #BoycottX #DOGE #USAID #Tesla #BoycottStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #Musk #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Starlink #X #Twitter #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
