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17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million

TL;DR

Dream bigger, babe. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site formerly known as Twitter, and it is your main source of contact with the outside world, you may delusionally throw away nearly $500 million dollars on midterm elections, just like Elon Musk.

Nauti's Take

For AI teams, this is mainly a source-quality check: the item comes from one strongly satirical summary and provides no reliable evidence of a new AI capability or product decision. Before drawing strategic conclusions, verify the PAC spending and election result against primary sources, then assess the political context separately from any AI relevance.

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