1 Elon Musk Chief Nerd's Elaborate $1,000 Troll Scam
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One of Elon Musk's nerd army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he signed up with DOGE - just to find the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is among 6 baby-faced young boys with little-to-no 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 to workers at USAID informing them not to come into the firm's Washington DC headquarters on Monday.

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

While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the company's IT system, developing security, and classified materials, and started dismantling it.

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

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber only' with a $1,000-a-month fee - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it.

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

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of 6 baby-faced kids with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to sow havoc in the civil service

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

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

Kliger advanced his intricate trolling with a strange voicemail greeting that pointed anybody who called his registered phone number to the post.

'I simply composed a beautiful Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it lags the paywall, however I believe it will respond to that question for you ... it's quite good,' he said.

The one-minute greeting was an elongated version of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to address, however it is really recorded.

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

The tape-recorded message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.

Despite its name, the Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just has two other posts - both of which are free to check out.

Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not upgraded weekly, and only has 3 posts

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer only' with a $1,000-a-month fee - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it

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

Gaetz was nominated for attorney-general however withdrew after a damning House report discovered he paid for sex with 17-year-old girl and many other misconducts.

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 an enthusiastic defense of the former Fox News host's election filled with regular Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was directly verified by the Senate in spite of his history of alcohol abuse and claims of sexual attack and harassment.

Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure job' to join DOGE is also dubious as his economic sector work history didn't consist of such a role.

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

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

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

The Berkeley graduate supposedly instructed all workers at the firm not to return to Washington headquarters on Monday

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

Musk last month designated him a special adviser to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed.

The Tesla owner has basically taken over the OPM, together with the General Services Administration, through his leadership of DOGE.

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

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

'Whether that means developing software, looking into system release, or working in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and creativity towards satisfying the obstacles I deal with.

'In my extra time, I take pleasure in playing the piano and clarinet and going to music concerts at Berkeley. Among my favorite pastimes is playing online blitz chess.'

Kliger's father, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a commercial property firm.

Musk last month appointed Kliger an unique advisor to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed

Who are Musk's other nerds?

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 functions and cut costs.

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

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

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, together with Coristine, have reportedly been given A-suite level clearance for their work, suggesting they can work out of the agency's leading flooring with access to all physical areas and bytes-the-dust.com IT systems.

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

These systems save delicate data including social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk got a performers of boys aged 19 to 25 - 3 of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been named for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.

After prevalent criticism about the guys's youth, Musk released a declaration about the consultations.

'Time to confess: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world's finest software application engineers remain in truth real,' Musk wrote on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

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

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

Friedman explained Farritor as 'a national treasure' after his visit with DOGE was revealed.

He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after utilizing AI technology to help figure out a 2,000 years of age document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had been trying, and failing, to fix for oke.zone centuries.

The charred scroll was thought burnt beyond recognition.

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

Edward Coristine, 19

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

Coristine reportedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for three months last summer, after finishing high school.

Little is understood about Coristine's function at DOGE, nevertheless he is listed as an 'expert.'

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

Employees were supposedly confused by his inclusion in the meetings, and later on revealed concerns that they were not effectively informed on his identity or role, even throughout the call.

Coristine's father, Charles, is the primary executive of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as a staff member for the brand name.

Up until recently, Coristine apparently utilized a social networks manage named '@.'

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

Akash Bobba, 21

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

According to a former LinkedIn account, which has since been erased, Bobba was a financial investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

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

Just 6 years ago, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional model United Nations. His father is a scholastic in computer technology.

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

" We reside 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 simplify even the most complex stories into spectacular tidbits, perpetuates false information and in the procedure divides the communities, households, and relationships we cherish.

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

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

Ethan Shaotran, 22

Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The start-up earned 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 cars.

Musk is famously attempting to develop self-driving vehicles at his Tesla head office.

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

He likewise has a link to Musk, having taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his team were runner ups after they utilized xAI's Grok to develop possible responses from X followers to a theoretical question.

Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The startup earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023

Gautier Cole Killian, 24

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

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

The 24-year-old finished McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which concentrates on high-frequency financial trades and algorithms

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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading an extraordinary civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's agreement.

'It ended up being obvious 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 simply a ball of worms. You have actually got to essentially eliminate the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'

Musk just recently hinted he was also the mastermind behind Trump's decision to purge federal workers by publishing a symbolic photo on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter cleanse.

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

Musk later shared on X that he commissioned an artwork of a huge fork standing in the road, indicating it was all linked.

Musk does not hold elected workplace, however on Monday was formally designated a 'special civil servant' by the White House.

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