what a bunch of tech bros could’ve gained by rummaging around our data for the last four months?”

“Trump’s orbit is always temporary, and I’m not sure Musk expected him to voluntarily nuke the economy. Tesla is in meltdown—he has no choice.

But…they can already declare victory. All evidence points to a data extraction operation. The goal is to ingest critical datasets, train them behind closed doors, then build a centralized “government brain” (an AI platform) that they can license back to the government.”

“It’s been 100 days. They’ve hit labor, treasury systems, veterans affairs, HHS, cloud services used by federal agencies. etc. etc. They likely have hundreds of terabytes of data already in their control. To answer your question, he has what he needs and they can do this without him now.”