1 Elon Musk Chief Nerd's Elaborate $1,000 Troll Scam
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Among Elon Musk's nerd army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to check out a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - just to find the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is among six baby-faced kids with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to plant havoc in the civil service.

He was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to staff members at USAID telling them not to come into the agency's Washington DC head office on Monday.

Kliger sent the instruction from a USAID email address he was supplied with as part of high-level access to its systems, along with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the personnel were kept home, DOGE gained access to the company's IT system, annunciogratis.net developing security, and classified materials, and began dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent out the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I provided up a seven-figure wage to conserve America.'

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer just' with a $1,000-a-month charge - or $10,000 for setiathome.berkeley.edu an entire year - to access a single word of it.

However, those who wondered adequate to spend the extraordinary charge found there wasn't even that - the post was totally blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced kids with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to plant havoc in the civil service

Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I provided up a seven-figure wage to conserve America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is totally empty

'Poetically blank, please reassess your life options,' one discuss the post read.

Kliger advanced his elaborate trolling with a bizarre voicemail greeting that pointed anybody who called his authorized contact number to the post.

'I just wrote a stunning Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you simply go there, it lags the paywall, but I believe it will answer that question for you ... it's respectable,' he said.

The one-minute welcoming was an elongated version of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to respond to, but it is in fact recorded.

Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having trouble hearing the call, then ultimately exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I do not think that's right.'

The taped message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.

Despite its name, the Substack was not updated weekly, and just has 2 other posts - both of which are totally free to read.

Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just has three posts

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer just' with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it

They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump's most questionable cabinet elections - Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Gaetz was nominated for attorney-general but withdrew after a damning House report found he paid for sex with 17-year-old woman and many other misbehaviors.

Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies' portrayed Gaetz as an innocent victim who was 'framed'.

His other post, 'Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears', was a passionate defense of the previous Fox News host's nomination filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was directly validated by the Senate in spite of his history of alcoholic abuse and claims of sexual assault and harassment.

Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure job' to join DOGE is likewise dubious as his economic sector work history didn't include such a function.

His newest job, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing firm in San Francisco, from May 2020 to last month.

Salaries for that position at Databricks range from $102,000 to $308,000 a year according to Certainly, while Glassdoor puts the top end at $321,000, including benefit.

Kliger was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to at USAID informing them not to come into the company's Washington DC head office on Monday

The Berkeley graduate supposedly instructed all employees at the agency not to return to Washington head office on Monday

Kliger finished from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 - well before Musk's takeover in 2022.

Musk last month appointed him an unique consultant to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed.

The Tesla owner has actually essentially taken control of the OPM, along with the General Services Administration, through his management of DOGE.

Kliger's now-deleted Github from his time at Berkeley claims he is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, a black belt very first dan in Taekwondo, and an accomplished pianist.

'I wish to do work that will influence the future,' it read.

'Whether that indicates establishing software application, researching system release, or operating in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and creativity towards satisfying the obstacles I face.

'In my extra time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and attending music concerts at Berkeley. One of my preferred pastimes is playing online blitz chess.'

Kliger's daddy, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a commercial realty company.

Musk last month designated Kliger an unique advisor to the director for dokuwiki.stream details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were set up

Who are Musk's other nerds?

Musk got a troupe of boys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut expenses.

At simply 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on business America and longstanding federal government institutions.

According to WIRED, he's been dubbed an 'expert' in his field, and specifics about his function aren't yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, together with Coristine, have actually supposedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, meaning they can work out of the company's top flooring with access to all physical areas and IT systems.

Musk's DOGE has actually been rapidly growing in power and expanding its remit, most recently securing clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration structures and IT systems.

These systems keep delicate information consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk enlisted a troupe of boys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut expenses

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been called for his role with DOGE, which is apparently on a 'volunteer' basis at this stage.

After prevalent criticism about the men's youth, Musk released a declaration about the visits.

'Time to confess: Media reports saying that DOGE has a few of world's finest software application engineers remain in fact real,' Musk wrote on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk currently, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig.

Farritor, biolink.palcurr.com dropped out of the University of Nebraska in order to begin working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley business owner behind GitHub.

Friedman explained Farritor as 'a national treasure' after his appointment with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after using AI technology to assist analyze a 2,000 year old file - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which researchers had actually been trying, and failing, to fix for centuries.

The charred scroll was thought scorched beyond acknowledgment.

Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk already, having interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig

Edward Coristine, 19

The youngest of Musk's elite team is simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.

Coristine apparently interned at Musk's Neuralink for three months last summer season, after graduating high school.

Little is learnt about Coristine's function at DOGE, videochatforum.ro nevertheless he is listed as an 'professional.'

WIRED pointed out sources declaring Coristine has actually been conducting calls with staff in the department and making them 'review code they had actually composed and validate their jobs.'

Employees were allegedly confused by his addition in the conferences, and later revealed issues that they were not appropriately briefed on his identity or role, even throughout the call.

Coristine's daddy, Charles, is the chief executive of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine as soon as worked as a team member for the brand.

Up till recently, Coristine apparently used a social media handle named '@EdwardBigBaller.'

The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston

Akash Bobba, 21

Bobba is another 'expert' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

According to a previous LinkedIn account, which has actually because been deleted, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

He had actually also previously interned for Meta and Palantir - who was established by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.

Just 6 years back, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, local model United Nations. His dad is a scholastic in computer system science.

Bobba spoke at his graduation event from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, informing his schoolmates to 'appreciate the intricacy in life'.

" We live in an age where simplicity rules supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to specify our identities,' he said.

'This increasing desire to streamline even the most intricate narratives into astonishing tidbits, perpetuates misinformation and while doing so divides the neighborhoods, households, and relationships we value.

'What's the solution, you might ask? Seek pain.'

Bobba is another 'specialist' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley

Ethan Shaotran, 22

Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for professionals. The start-up made a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023.

The 22-year-old said in September he was a senior at Harvard University, and was working in the school's computing laboratory on self-governing automobiles.

Musk is notoriously attempting to develop self-driving automobiles at his Tesla head office.

Shaortran is part of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year.

He also has a link to Musk, having actually taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his group were runner ups after they used xAI's Grok to produce possible responses from X followers to a hypothetical concern.

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The start-up made a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023

Gautier Cole Killian, 24

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms.

Now, he is supposedly working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capacity remains uncertain.

The 24-year-old graduated McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms

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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading a remarkable civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's arrangement.

'It emerged that it's not an apple with a worm it in,' Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday.

'What we have is just a ball of worms. You have actually got to generally get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair.'

Musk recently hinted he was likewise the mastermind behind Trump's choice to purge federal employees by publishing a symbolic image on X harkening back to his infamous Twitter clean.

At the time, he sent a letter to staff titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The same title was used in Trump's current email proposing generous lay-off packages

Musk later on shared on X that he commissioned an art work of a massive fork standing in the road, suggesting it was all linked.

Musk does not hold chosen workplace, but on Monday was officially appointed a 'unique civil servant' by the White House.

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