Faiz Siddiqui

A 2024 Elon Musk post predicting that "Governments will attempt to seize power over AGI"

not that we have AGI but this guy may have been onto something

An Elon Musk post reading: “The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?”

Elon Musk’s response to a post saying he complied after the Turkish government “asked Twitter to censor its opponents right before an election”

Apropos of nothing, remembering the time a government made direct demands of a powerful “free speech”-oriented Elon Musk company, which faced the risk of being shut down there, and he blinked

A 2024 Elon Musk X Post reading: "Forbes is desperate for attention as they are dying."

Musk's response to being named America's greatest innovator by Forbes: "Cool." His brother added, "Congrats bro!"

Elon Musk on Forbes when it covered Tesla's plummeting stock: dying, desperate for attention
Elon Musk when Forbes named him America's greatest innovator: thank you Forbes, very cool

Elon 3.0 Does Elon have a plan for this?

It’s Elon 3.0 time. Robots, mergers and Epstein, oh my. With @faizsays.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/wha...

This story, shared here four hours ago, was written with the inimitable and utterly irreplaceable @nitasha.bsky.social who was laid off yesterday, the same day our piece ran on the front page of the newspaper. Hard to fathom.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

What happened at the Post today is simply devastating -- deep and hard-won trust and sourcing, mountains of expertise and a combined centuries' worth of institutional knowledge gone up in an instant. It's a collective loss but please consider donating to support those who've had their lives upended:

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

"Make it more 'based.'": How Elon Musk's bet turned Grok into a porn generator. Workers got waivers asking them to work w/ sexual content, Musk started sleeping at xAI, job candidates were screened for comfort w/ NSFW material, red flags went ignored. Grok surged — at a massive cost wapo.st/45DcMMI

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

Insane @washingtonpost.com reporting:

Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

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Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator wapo.st/45DcMMI from @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social and me

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

In one way, the push has worked. Grok, which once charted dozens of spots below ChatGPT in free App Store rankings, has surged to the top 10. But it was the "undressing" scandal that vaulted it to notoriety. Also Grok's guardrails fell + Musk would say, "Make it more ‘based.'" wapo.st/45DcMMI

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

NEW: Inside Elon Musk's push to hook Grok users by leaning into NSFW content. Workers were told they'd be working with sexual material, were advised to gauge job candidates' comfort with doing so. Soon they were training Grok on lewd conversations & depictions of sexual violence
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Elon Musk's full comment on the Epstein files release, just posted on X:

Elon Musk, September 2025: “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED”

Tesla ending the Model S and Model X takes it away from its roots as a car company. Models 3 and Y revenues underpin so many of its autonomous and robotics bets, so of course those aren't going anywhere. Musk says it's "slightly sad" but time to shift
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Breaking: Tesla is ending production of the Model S, the vehicle that vaulted it to the mainstream and won Motor Trend "Car of the Year" honors, along with the Model X, Elon Musk announces. It is shifting those production lines to make Optimus robots, Musk says.

Barclays in an analyst report this week: Tesla's "Fundamentals remain challenged. ... Yet for now we expect Tesla stock to remain detached
from fundamentals."

Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it. Tesla struggles to regain its footing in the electric vehicle market, hindered by Elon Musk’s political activity, impacting its stock price and performance.

New: Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year; annual profit down 46%

the brand damage:
-1 million lost vehicle sales, per study
-Declining revenue, profits, deliveries in 1st half of '25
-Lower total production/deliveries than '24
-Lost crown as world's leading EV seller
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Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it. Tesla struggles to regain its footing in the electric vehicle market, hindered by Elon Musk’s political activity, impacting its stock price and performance.

wrote about how Tesla floated a cool $1 trillion Elon Musk's way in hopes he would focus, only for him to fan the flames in Minnesota, post about his fears of white genocide, seemingly claim South Africa was better off during apartheid and proclaim whites a "rapidly dying minority"

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Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"

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Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Post reporter The Post demanded in a court filing Wednesday that federal law enforcement officials return electronic devices the government seized from a staff reporter’s home.

"I need my devices back to do my job." wapo.st/4jUxQEe

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

The post Musk replied to, part of which reads: “If we want to be a serious country with law & order, anything short of outright abolishment of the 19th amendment would be a grave half-measure.”

Musk’s reply to the post from the account calling itself “retardmode.”

World’s richest person — a man with government contracts hailed by some as a genius — engaging seriously with a post from someone calling themselves “retardmode” who argues for abolishing women’s right to vote

An Ashley St. Clair post from Jan. 8 reading "hey guys im starting to think the $44 billion wasn’t for free speech"

An excerpt from Hubris Maximus detailing other major figures' realization that Musk's apparent free speech commitment came with limitations

people who've come to the public realization that maybe Elon Musk's commitment to free speech wasn't all it was cracked up to be: Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Ashley St. Clair

Musk on the victim in the Minneapolis ICE shooting: "She tried to run people over."

the thing about this, which Musk of all people should know well, is that are heaps of data (wheel angle, speed, accelerator pedal position) that can be used to assess whether this claim is remotely true. and yet he declares it as if it's a known and obvious fact

Here's Musk striking a far different tone in 2020

An Elon Musk post on X reading: "If an officer of law says stop, you stop. Attempting to murder them with a car obviously requires self-defense."

X's owner has decided he has seen enough to declare the Minneapolis ICE shooting an act of "self-defense"

a Times of London headline reading: "New 100-tonne fatberg found in London sewer." The blurb adds: "Thames Water warns customers against pouring Christmas leftovers such as gravy and custard down the sink after a mass of congealed fat was discovered."

always check the local news before you travel to a new location

"Photos show pry marks on the Cybertruck door, where firefighters tried to access the cabin. That effort was abandoned once it became clear that the operation was no longer a rescue." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

From The Washington Post story: "Photos show pry marks on the Cybertruck door, where firefighters tried to access the cabin. That effort was abandoned once it became clear that the operation was no longer a rescue."

The cascading series of problems: 1) In a crash/fire, doors don’t open intuitively from the inside, 2) it’s similarly difficult to open them from the outside, 3) The windows don’t easily break. 4) If all else fails, the doors can’t be swiftly pried open.
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