I don’t recall seeing this bit of interesting news (my apologies if it was and I missed it):
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Apparently it didn’t target the correct people.
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Heck yeah, put the treasury on the blockchain. Have it record every little thing you do, in a way that can come back to haunt you later, because you’re too stupid to know that’s what a blockchain actually does.
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That’s in the past. We should not be guilty of the sins of our parents, let alone…
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Upset about confiscating land, treating certain classes of people very badly, and human rights violations? Is he just mad because it’s only cool for him and Netanyahu to do that?
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Below is a transcription of Errol’s remarks regarding Maye Musk’s parents:
Her [Maye Musk’s] parents by the way were very fanatical in favor of apartheid. This is quite interesting. Her parents came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathized with the Afrikaner government.
They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff. But they didn’t know, obviously, I don’t think they knew what the Germans, the Nazis were actually doing. In Canada, they were part of the Nazi, the German party in Canada, and they sympathized with the Germans.
Or maybe:
In a memoir titled “A Woman Makes A Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success,” Maye Musk explained that her parents moved away from Canada in 1950 because, “They met missionaries who had been to South Africa, who had told them how beautiful it was.”
On the other hand, in a biography of Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson wrote that Haldeman immigrated to South Africa because he was disillusioned with the Canadian government’s growing control over individual freedoms: “With his quirky conservative populist views, Haldeman came to believe that the Canadian government was usurping too much control over the lives of individuals and that the country had gone soft. So in 1950, he decided to move to South Africa, which was still ruled by a white apartheid regime.”
Scott Haldeman, Elon Musk’s uncle, in an article titled, “Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950” published in the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, said, “Joshua gave a number of reasons why he decided to leave Canada,” concluding that “the primary reason for the relocation to South Africa may have been his adventurous spirit and the desire for a more pleasant climate in which to raise his family.”
In a New Yorker article, titled, “The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather,” professor of history and law at Harvard and journalist Jill Lepore wrote that “Haldeman was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist who blamed much of what bothered him about the world on Jewish financiers.”
Etc etc etc.
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Didn’t expect r/genealogy to be a source for an update from our new lurch into dystopia but here we are:
Elon Musk deleted census data.
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Are you saying there’s something sus about her bio?
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This thread’s title checks out.
@LockeCJ You called it. Dunno if you are making offshore backups, but it may be a good idea to start if that’s not already a thing. Documenting our losses may take ages, assuming anyone chooses to study it.
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Dang, it’s one helluva discussion over there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/1ig4cv3/elon_deleted_the_us_census_and_archives_references/
ETA2: from that link:
They are following Curtis Yarvin’s takeover plan.
We are currently at the R.A.G.E. (retire all government employees)
This is real. They are following their plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
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From that article:
Any non-democratic system is scary to me, but few are scarier than ones run by egotistical engineers. (And I say that as an engineer myself.)
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I first heard about technocracy in a comic called ‘Technocracy: Better Living Through Technology’ in the Big Book of Losers (Paradox Press, 1997).
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As the article notes, the idea has been around for a long time. Some examples from cinema:
There was a sort-of-interesting but not great big-budget 1936 movie Things to Come that depicted a futuristic techno-utopia run by engineers. And of course the awful 2015 Disney movie Tomorrowland where some murderous science geniuses build a secret undemocratic techno-utopia that fails, blame society at large for the failure, then end the movie by deciding that the solution is to do the exact same thing again only harder.
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I can see some utility in calling what’s happening in the US a lurch toward technocracy, but for me the term overlooks how what’s happening is a lurch toward oligarchy, and kakistocracy. The truly horrific potential of Citizens United is now upon us.
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It was originally whatever the Ars article was called, and eventually became Elon Musk Destroys Twitter, and I updated it to Everything. It was purely observational, not foreshadowing.
As for backups, there are currently offsite backups, but they are stored in the US. I’ll look at options to mirror those somewhere potentially more resilient.
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