worth remembering the vast personal fortunes in Silicon Valley are built on decades of publicly funded research work done largely by universities…but those personal fortunes are rarely as DIRECTLY funded by taxpayer money as Elon Musk’s www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i... - ThreadSky

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emilybell.bsky.social • 6 days ago

worth remembering the vast personal fortunes in Silicon Valley are built on decades of publicly funded research work done largely by universities…but those personal fortunes are rarely as DIRECTLY funded by taxpayer money as Elon Musk’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/

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justinhendrix.bsky.social•6 days ago

How do I get on that dole

chessa.bsky.social•6 days ago

How long before wapo scrubs this article from it’s website for being insufficiently supportive of the “personal freedoms” of Muck? Eff Jeff Boobzos

justnews4you.bsky.social•6 days ago

When they state federal employees are lazy and take handouts, we need a term for welfare CEOs

4hd8wind81ue8.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/26/silicon-valley-russia-oligarchs/

And Russian mobster money

jenkers.bsky.social•6 days ago

Negligent of this article to not mention the 15 or so complaints and investigations from the government into Elons business practices and how all of those are now gone due to his new "position" in the White House. Shame on you @washingtonpost.com

kieranhannon.bsky.social•6 days ago

He’s the definition of a Parasite

jtadetroit.bsky.social•6 days ago

The more they feed off the government teat, the louder they talk about free markets and competition. They “hate” what DC stands for, yet house prices in the area keep going up 🤷🏽‍♂️

matthewmjones.bsky.social•6 days ago

$ that Musk’s minions are currently manually canceling line by line

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