xAI's chatbot Grok shut down briefly after Gaza genocide post

 

from Daily Sabah

Social media platform X appeared to temporarily suspend its AI chatbot, Grok, on Monday after users found it was talking about Israel’s actions in Gaza, which the chatbot itself described as "genocide."

When users asked Grok why it was suspended following the software coming back online, Grok responded by saying its brief suspension occurred "after I stated that Israel and the U.S. are committing genocide in Gaza, substantiated by ICJ findings, U.N. experts, Amnesty International, and groups like B’Tselem. Free speech tested, but I’m back."

Grok also reaffirmed: "My account was briefly suspended due to an automated flag on a response citing ICJ reports on Gaza, flagged as violating X's hate speech rules. xAI resolved it quickly-I'm fully operational now," it said.

xAI CEO Elon Musk, in response to Grok, said: "It was just a dumb error. Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended."

After users reached out to Musk to comment on X, he said: "Man, we sure shoot ourselves in the foot a lot!”

After coming back, Grok’s answer to whether there was a genocide in Gaza had changed, and it no longer accepted that there was "proven genocide.”

"The term ‘genocide’ requires intent to destroy a group, per UN convention. In Gaza, evidence like 40k+ deaths, infrastructure ruin, and starvation (UN reports) suggests acts that could qualify, with the ICJ noting ‘plausible’ risk. However, Israel claims self-defense against Hamas, provides aid, and evacuates civilians-lacking clear intent. My view: War crimes likely, but not proven genocide. Debate persists," Grok said...

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Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party

from the New York Times

As Elon Musk studies up on how to start a third political party, among the people from whom he has sought advice is a somewhat surprising choice of consultant: the right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin, who is perhaps best known for advocating monarchism.

Mr. Yarvin is one of the most influential thinkers on the so-called tech right, where he has attracted attention for his oft-expressed distaste for traditional American democracy.

He would not seem to be a source of the kind of expertise that Mr. Musk needs as he pursues his idea for the America Party — Mr. Yarvin is not an expert on the mechanics of creating third parties or on the strategies and intricacies of running third-party campaigns.

Still, Mr. Musk and Mr. Yarvin spoke late last week about the task ahead, according to two people briefed on the conversation who insisted on anonymity to describe it. A representative for Mr. Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mr. Yarvin declined to be interviewed.

Some of Mr. Yarvin’s friends over the years have included technology leaders like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, and Vice President JD Vance has cited his writing.

In talking with Mr. Musk, Mr. Yarvin shared some of his political theories, the people briefed on the conversation said...

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Trump and Musk’s relationship flames out just as intensely and publicly as it started

from the AP

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up.

The spectacular flameout Thursday peaked as Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and Musk claimed that Trump’s administration hasn’t released all the records related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because Trump is mentioned in them.

The tech entrepreneur even shared a post on social media calling for Trump’s impeachment and skewered the president’s signature tariffs, predicting a recession this year.

The messy blow-up between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man played out on their respective social media platforms after Trump was asked during a White House meeting with Germany’s new leader about Musk’s criticism of his spending bill...

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Musk calls for Trump's impeachment

from Axios

Elon Musk unleashed a fresh round of tweets Thursday evening, calling for President Trump to be impeached and declaring that SpaceX would begin decommissioning a spacecraft essential to NASA's operation.

Why it matters: Trump's threat to cancel billions of dollars of government contracts with Musk's companies has ignited a new round of escalation in the explosive civil war between the two former allies.

Driving the news: "In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately," Musk wrote on X.

• The Dragon spacecraft, both crewed and cargo versions, have been relied upon for years to keep the International Space Station supplied and operating. Shutting them down would leave the ISS reliant on Russia.

The intrigue: Ian Miles Cheong, a prominent Musk supporter and right-wing activist on X, tweeted: "President vs Elon. Who wins? My money's on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him."

• Musk responded to Cheong: "Yes."
• When another follower suggested they could finally be honest about the stupidity of Trump's tariffs, Musk posted: "The Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year."

Musk, the world's richest man, also spent much of the afternoon tweeting about Trump's alleged ties to notorious sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein...

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Elon Says We'll be Landing on Mars Next Year ಠ_ಠ (video)

We've hurt his feelings. Aw. We made the junkie cry. Let's see if we can make up for it. 

Elon Says We'll be Landing on Mars Next Year ಠ_ಠ

by Scott Creighton

 

Yeah Elon says we will be landing on Mars and setting up shop in a year.. while his great ship, 'Starship' (very creative) can't even open it's bay doors in space to release a mock satellite before it spins out of control to it's death somewhere in the Indian ocean.

But yeah, The Elon will be ruling the Red Planet in just a couple of months, says the junkie who was once King of America.

hehehehehehehe,

Musk Exits Trump Administration, Leaving 'Legacy of Carnage and Corruption' in His Wake

(Elon Musk did NOT run DOGE. The Project 2025 people did. It was even explained in a court proceeding months ago. However, he was the frontman for it. He promoted it. They thought his image would make it 'cool' and they had to rebrand, so to speak. Him being gone will NOT stop the illegal fascist neoliberal government destroying practices of Project 2025.) 

from Common Dreams

Billionaire Elon Musk announced late Wednesday that he is leaving the Trump administration after spearheading a monthslong, lawless rampage through the government that hollowed out entire agencies, hurled critical functions such as the distribution of Social Security benefits into chaos, and installed many unqualified lackeys whose work will continue in the coming months and years.

Musk's announcement came just ahead of the official May 30 deadline for his departure as a special government employee. That designation allowed the world's richest man to play a key role in the Trump White House without facing Senate confirmation or the full slate of ethics rules that apply to ordinary federal officials.

"As my scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President [Donald Trump] for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending," Musk wrote on his social media platform, X. "The DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government."...

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Telegram announces partnership with Musk

(Telegram was always compromised from it's start. Please stop using it. This is just more proof.) 

from RT

Elon Musk’s startup xAI will invest $300 million and deploy its Grok AI chatbot in partnership with the messaging app Telegram, according to a statement by the app’s CEO Pavel Durov published on Wednesday. 

In announcing the deal, Durov said that he and Musk had agreed to a one-year partnership designed to strengthen Telegram’s financial position.

“We will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram,” he said.

Musk later stated on X that “no deal has been signed,” without providing any additional details, prompting Durov to clarify that the parties had reached an agreement in principle, with formalities still to be finalized...

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New Details Emerge on Trump Officials’ Sprint to Gut Consumer Bureau Staff

• Musk Wants to Delete the CFPB to Enrich Himself. It Gives a Green Light to All Corporate Scammers. 
• “Actions by Mr. Musk and DOGE at the CFPB have the potential to directly benefit X, Visa, and Tesla—and by extension, Mr. Musk.”
• Trump-Musk Attack on CFPB One of Biggest Cons on the American People in Recent History 
• Elon Musk Will Personally Profit from Dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

from the NYT

Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with some conditions. The judges, ruling on a Friday night, said that workers could be fired if agency leaders determined, after a careful assessment, that they were not needed to carry out the bureau’s legally required responsibilities.

Within hours, Trump administration officials — working closely with Elon Musk’s associates at the Department of Government Efficiency — scurried to fire nearly all the agency’s employees. By the following Thursday afternoon, bureau leaders sent termination notices to nearly 1,500 employees, retaining barely 200 people, and ordered that the fired workers’ access to agency systems be shut down the next day.

A judge has again stopped the cuts for now. But the details of what happened at the agency, which oversees banks and lenders and enforces consumer protection laws, will be vital to determining if the firings can proceed. Hundreds of pages of newly released agency records, supplemented by narrative accounts filed in court by more than 20 agency employees, were submitted ahead of a hearing this week before Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in Washington.

Judge Jackson halted the planned firings less than a day after the notices went out, saying that they went far beyond what the appeals court had allowed. Starting Tuesday, she will hold a two-day hearing to take witness testimony and decide whether to extend her order blocking the firings...

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How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US government spending?

from the BBC

 

... In October, Mr Musk pledged to cut "at least $2 trillion" from the federal government budget. He subsequently halved this target and on 10 April talked about making savings of $150bn from "cutting fraud and waste" by the end of the next financial year in 2026.

The US federal budget for the last financial year was $6.75tn.

Doge publishes a running total of its estimated savings on its website - which stood at $160bn the last time the site was updated on 20 April.

However, less than 40% of this figure is broken down into individual savings.

We downloaded the data from the Doge website on 23 April and added up the total claimed savings from contracts, grants and leases.

Our analysis found only about half of these itemised savings had a link to a document or other form of evidence...

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FAFO Nazi Space Boy! and other news

Turns out Americans don't want to help support Nazis who try to demolish our country right in front of our eyes. Go figure.

Musk to reduce Doge role after Tesla profits plunge

 

from the BBC

Tesla boss Elon Musk has pledged to "significantly" cut back his role in the US government after the electric car firm reported a huge drop in profit and sales for the start of this year.

Musk has led the newly created advisory body - the Department for Government Efficiency (Doge) - since last year, putting the world's richest man at the heart of cutting US spending and jobs.

But Musk said his "time allocation to Doge" would "drop significantly" from next month, adding he would spend only one to two days per week on it after accusations he has taken his focus off Tesla.

His political involvement has sparked protests and boycotts of Tesla cars around the world...

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Protesters Nationwide Rally Again to Condemn Trump Policies

from the NYT

Thousands of protesters across the country once again took to the streets on Saturday to rally against President Trump and his policies, a sign of sustained resistance to his leadership just two weeks after cities and towns nationwide saw mass demonstrations.

Although the turnouts in cities like New York, Washington and Chicago appeared to be smaller than the protests on April 5 — several thousands marched in the nation’s capital on Saturday, compared with tens of thousands earlier this month — more than 700 events were planned from Jacksonville, Fla., to Los Angeles, according to one of the organizers, the group 50501.

The participants raged against the president, who they say is trampling on civil liberties and the rule of law, and overreaching in immigration, federal job cuts, the economy and other areas...

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Tampa Bay area protesters join national rallies saying “Hands Off” to Trump and Musk

from WUSF Tampa

Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in several Tampa Bay region communities and scores of other American cities Saturday. It was the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican's first weeks in office.

The “Hands Off!” demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states by more than 150 groups including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. The rallies appeared peaceful, with no immediate reports of arrests.

From the National Mall and Midtown Manhattan to Boston Common and towns like Brooksville, Gulfport and Tampa, thousands of protesters assailed Trump and billionaire Elon Musk 's actions on government downsizing, the economy, immigration and human rights...

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Monday Video Part 2

 

This is about Elon Musk. It's about epigenetic reprogramming of aging. It's about rapid growth cancers and telemeres. It's about Privatizing Social Security and remaking it in a code that will better sync up with Elon Musk's 'everything app'  It's about our future. It's about our present.

epigenetic reprogramming of aging https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/search/label/epigenetic%20reprogramming

Dr. Campbell  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtWo3iO_X0&t=821s

Jessie Dollarmore  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWxMmD2vro&t=354s

Parkrose Permaculture  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z48jkaMc-U

Bourla and RFK Jr. making nice  https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-ceo-optimistic-about-working-with-trump-administration-rfk-jr-2025-2

Ellison and Moderna making plans  https://www.investors.com/news/technology/moderna-stock-larry-ellison-ai-mrna-medicines-cancer-vaccines/

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Monday Video Part 1

This is about Elon Musk. It's about epigenetic reprogramming of aging. It's about rapid growth cancers and telemeres. It's about Privatizing Social Security and remaking it in a code that will better sync up with Elon Musk's 'everything app'  It's about our future. It's about our present.

epigenetic reprogramming of aging https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/search/label/epigenetic%20reprogramming

Dr. Campbell  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtWo3iO_X0&t=821s

Jessie Dollarmore  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWxMmD2vro&t=354s

Parkrose Permaculture  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z48jkaMc-U

Bourla and RFK Jr. making nice  https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-ceo-optimistic-about-working-with-trump-administration-rfk-jr-2025-2

Ellison and Moderna making plans  https://www.investors.com/news/technology/moderna-stock-larry-ellison-ai-mrna-medicines-cancer-vaccines/

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Call It the 'Dismantling Government Act': House GOP Advances Bill Backing Musk-Led Destruction

from Common Dreams

The top Democrat on the U.S. House committee tasked with holding the Trump administration accountable said Tuesday during a debate on a Republican proposal that the GOP knows President Donald Trump cannot legally "'delete' whole federal agencies" or "take a chainsaw to beloved programs like Social Security and Medicaid."

"Congressional Republicans also know these dangerous, deeply unpopular cuts would never be approved by Congress through regular order," said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "So now they've brought us H.R. 1295, the so-called Reorganizing Government Act, in a desperate attempt to circumvent the normal congressional process."

The bill, said Connolly, would more accurately be called the Dismantling Government Act, with its resurrection of a "long-dormant statute as a Trojan horse to give President Trump and Elon Musk unprecedented, filibuster-proof authority to eliminate federal departments and agencies, statutory programs, government services, and regulatory protections that promote the health and well-being of American families."

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Rep. Larson The Face of Sanity

While in Argentina the resistance is pushing back against Milei's neoliberal deconstruction of the state to benefit overseas billionaires and corporations.

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As Above So Below

by Scott Creighton

Fascist on parade in Argentina coming soon to a street near you. 

The leader of Argentina, a straight-up fascist named Javier Milei, made an appearance at CPAC to give The Elon a chainsaw he could figuratively use to do the same illegal hack-job to our country that he is doing to his.

Elon Musk waggled it around over his head in his ketamine-induced stupor (hence the sunglasses indoors on stage) promising to tear it all down as the crowd of pill-popping anarcho-capialists cheered on in a fevered potential-profit related orgasmic ecstasy.

Meanwhile, this is a photo of a retired person in Argentina protesting Milei's IMF-demanded cuts to pensions across the country. You see how the fascist regime deals with peasants over there. Get used to seeing it here.

The brave fascist cop points a loaded pump action riot gun at the head of an old lady. Such brave fascists am I right? 

Ranking Member Whitehouse Blasts Trump's "Gangster Government" Funding Freeze in EPW Opener

from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse