Elon Musk

[Angrboda]

Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter drama is finally headed to trial—but first came the harder task: finding jurors who don’t loathe the world’s richest man.

Nine jurors were seated Thursday in San Francisco federal court after the judge spent more than five hours slicing through a pool of 93 prospective jurors in the investor class action suit against Musk, according to reporting by Bloomberg Law.

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Nearly 40 prospective jurors were swiftly dismissed after admitting they could not put their biases aside.

One man wrote in his questionnaire that if this were a criminal trial, he would feel a “moral obligation” to convict Musk and send him to prison.

Another said she hated how Musk fired content moderators after taking over Twitter. She was dismissed despite claiming she could be fair.

One woman praised Musk as a “brilliant scientist” who had helped humanity—but conceded under questioning that she would be nervous if she were representing the investors and she ended up on the jury. She, too, was eliminated.

Musk Court Case Goes Off Rails Because Everyone Hates Him

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter drama is finally headed to trial—but first came the harder task: finding jurors who don’t loathe the world’s richest man.

Nine jurors were seated Thursday in San Francisco federal court after the judge spent more than five hours slicing through a pool of 93 prospective jurors in the investor class action suit against Musk, according to reporting by Bloomberg Law.

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Nearly 40 prospective jurors were swiftly dismissed after admitting they could not put their biases aside.

One man wrote in his questionnaire that if this were a criminal trial, he would feel a “moral obligation” to convict Musk and send him to prison.

Another said she hated how Musk fired content moderators after taking over Twitter. She was dismissed despite claiming she could be fair.

One woman praised Musk as a “brilliant scientist” who had helped humanity—but conceded under questioning that she would be nervous if she were representing the investors and she ended up on the jury. She, too, was eliminated.

Musk Court Case Goes Off Rails Because Everyone Hates Him

I empathize with the dismissed prospective jurors.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Wow, Elon will bring back dinosaurs and create a real Jurassic Park.

Elon Musk is on board with the idea of having a real-life Jurassic Park. While he didn’t offer to fund the idea himself, he is hoping that someone else will. His promotion of the idea has garnered a lot of attention from other users, both in favor of and against the concept.

On March 5, Nikita Bier, X’s Head of Product, took to the platform where he posted the logo of the iconic Jurassic Park movie. He captioned it, “I feel like this startup idea is fundable now.” Later in the day, Elon Musk reposted Bier’s post and captioned it, “I hope someone makes this work!”

The post has gone viral, amassing more than 43 million views at the time of writing. Several users have supported the idea. One user replied, “You are the someone. So you can definitely make it work.”

A second user commented, “If anyone can do it, you can, Elon. You have the resources & the connections. And if you need someone to do the legwork of connecting people, let me know.”

A third user wrote, “It sounds more fun than launching rockets. You’ve got to admit.” “All I ask is for scientists to only make land dinosaurs and not flying or aquatic dinosaurs cuz those are the ones to actually be afraid of lol,” hoped another.

Response was not all positive, though. Some users have also said that it could be a bad idea, reminding how Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park movies ended. One user responded, “Those 6 movies were full of warnings! ‘Life finds a way’ was supposed to be a threat, not a pitch deck tagline.”

Another user said, “Everyone wants Jurassic Park until the fences go down. The problem was never the technology. It was the humans running the park.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movi...00748.html

[Deesse23]

Elon who?

[Thumpalumpacus]

You'd think Musk would've learnt something about the Law of Unintended Consequences by now ... but nooooooooooo.

[AFTT47]

This one should have gone in the Strange Science thread. As far as I knew, it's not really possible to preserve DNA that long.

[Mr Greene]

The oldest DNA discovered is around 2 million years old. Somewhat less than what would be required for this, though something tells me Musk probably thinks the Flintstones is a documentary.
Mammoths and sabretooths are theortically possible though both come with obvious caveats.
Even reintroducing wolves to US national parks came with an assessment of the acceptable number of children killed by them.

[Mister Agenda]

You'd think Musk would've learnt something about the Law of Unintended Consequences by now ... but nooooooooooo.

You'd think he'd learn that DNA doesn't survive for 65 million years.

[Fake Messiah]

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to a whistleblower complaint reported by The Washington Post.

The former DOGE software engineer told co-workers at his new job that he “possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens’ information” and was planning to use the information at his new company, according to the report, which added that the Social Security Administration’s inspector general is investigating the whistleblower complaint.

The former DOGE employee, whom The Washington Post did not name, worked at the Social Security Administration last year. In October he then left to work at a government contractor, where he told colleagues that he had obtained two databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” according to The Post, which reported that the databases could include records for “more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names.”

The man also reportedly claimed that he previously had unrestricted “God-level” access to the SSA’s systems.

A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, which is still under control by DOGE, denied that a former employee stole data on U.S. citizens. The spokesperson said the Washington Post was “desperate for clicks and eager to publish fake news to scare seniors.” The inspector general’s office; which is independent from the Trump administration, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doge...51726.html

[HappySkeptic]

I just assumed that Elon had all the databases