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"Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish." […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@buermann, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
"It doesn’t seem as if Cornell is doing a bad job of educating men to the ruling class. It seems as if it’s doing a perfect job, preparing these men for exactly the kind of stupidity and power the country has come to expect from its leaders." coreyrobin.com/2026/10/06/eichmann-…
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
"While Astra's bot-based heist is innocuous in isolation, this is hardly the first time an OpenAI LLM has been caught attempting to cheat at a task. Indeed, the company's history of creating deceitful models stretches back almost a decade, when an early AI model used glitches and exploits to […]
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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 02/10/2026
#California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/californi… #privacy #Meta #IoT #SmartGlasses
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
"Franklin’s lab notes, usually thorough and meticulous, say little about photograph 51. But in a paper published today in the Journal of the History of Biology... the earlier image, photograph 49, shows she ... recognized it suggested a helical structure and used it to calculate, for the first […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
"US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000
Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Kurt Schlichter is Pete Hegseth's buttboy paid by taxpayers to purge the war colleges of liberals and other undesirables. Dude thought Starship Troopers was a utopia. www.wired.com/story/a-pentagon-infl…
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

David Gilbert
Sep 29, 2026 6:15 AM
In an August 2021 thread on X, Schlichter demanded an authoritarian crackdown on “liberals.”

“We must, by any means necessary, force them to be like us. No quarter. No compromise,” Schlichter wrote. In the thread, he advocates for banning everything from masks and unions to critical race theory and “leftist media.” (Last year, Hegseth’s Department of Defense required journalists to sign a pledge that would prevent them from gathering certain information. Most major journalists refused to sign the pledge and left the Pentagon.)

In the same thread on X, Schlichter also suggested that people who don’t have children, who do not serve in the military, and who don’t own property should not be allowed to vote. “Penalize barren, non-familial lifestyles through taxes and disqualification from political participation,” Schlichter wrote. “Establish property and military service qualifications for voting.” Posts in the thread were shared a combined 10,000 times.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I do not think I have read one piece on the uprising against data centers that noted how to the extent they succeeds they reduce the economic fallout when the bubble pops.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I like how one chart Steven Rattner never shows NYT readers in his series of non-sequitur graphs is the latest from BLS for total factor productivity that shows labor productivity growth -- the economic statistic AI is supposed to increase so fast we all end […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.

Oct. 2, 2026"Contributions to Output Growth in Private Business"

bar charts of annual percentage points of growth broken out by labor, capital, and total factor productivity gains
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can read Jamal’s work here. It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post. Rest in peace, Jamal. And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
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Opinion | Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post
Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who Turkish officials say was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, had been writing a column for The Post since last year.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
A quarter billion in messianic space nazi bribes. www.citizen.org/news/tech-executive…
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117355036… The era of refusing software updates deepens.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sooner or later, after exhausting all other possibilities, everyone realizes that the only smart way to do public benefits is with auto-enroll www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
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Trump Is Preparing to Auto-Enroll Every Child in a Trump Account
Few Americans have set up Trump Accounts on their own.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Did they ever have Anthony Hopkins and the blonde fellow perform Harbard's Song?
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I guess closing the borders and removing legal immigrants and deporting American citizens has somehow done nothing to help conservative manage their nightmares about an immigration crisis. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
"in the 12 weeks since the end of Operation Epic Fury, more U.S. military personnel have been injured and killed than in the 18 weeks of Epic Fury. Of the 880 U.S. troops left wounded or dead, 444 have occurred since July 7, according to the official Pentagon count." […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Shark seen swimming in flooded New Jersey street during nor'easter www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/…
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
I wonder how many trillions the slopshops are going to collect for their 60 million in bribes. electionlawblog.org/2026/a-i-groups…
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
"Pinker’s domain of study has quietly collapsed. Evolutionary psychology, which he pioneered, came under a cloud after the exposure of its iffy methodology (in which its claims can’t be disproven), and controversies over race science (in which racial hierarchies are biological) and rape […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Awful lotta nazis making money on YouTube. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/the-ris…
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men. Its audience is small but growing, and their movement has ties to powerful religious and political figures.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/09/2026
Is this Marc Novicoff who doesn't want free day care the same Marc Novicoff who wrote, "The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard—It's Worse"?
The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't As Bad As You've Heard-
It's Worse
June 30, 2025
Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, June 30, 2025
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Quite the era where lawyers have to spell out the argument that systemic law breaking is bad for markets. aulawreview.org/blog/lawbreaking-as…
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Lawbreaking as a Method of Competition - American University Law Review
75 Am. U. L. Rev. 1535 (2026).
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
RIP Sandwichman: "With love and sorrow we share the passing of John Thomas (Tom) Walker." angrybearblog.com/2026/09/sandwichm…
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
"Since the start of 2026, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has recorded over 1600 settler attacks in 275 Palestinian communities — an average of 6.7 every day, the highest rate since it began keeping records. And since October 7, settlers have erected over 150 […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
"Leading AI chatbots cite partisan websites masquerading as independent local news outlets nearly half of the time when people ask about candidates and issues that the partisan sites have covered in the midterm campaign, according to a new audit by NewsGuard" […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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The chart shows that Trump’s 2024 vote share in states with the highest search rates for testosterone boosters (Wyoming, West Virginia, South Dakota, and Mississippi) was, on average, about 35 percentage points higher than it was in low-search-rate states like Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington. This relationship is so strong, in fact, that Google search rates for testosterone boosters explain over 70% of the state-by-state variation in support for Trump.
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
I am pretty freaked out by this. It's hard for me to understand why more people aren't freaked out by this. I suppose there's so much for people to be freaked out nowadays that people need to ration their freak-outs, so we're putting off this freak-out in the hope that Ebola won't turn into a […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/114191917… It has been a little over a decade since every social media app simultaneously replaced my friends and journalists and the scholars I followed because I learned things from them with a infinite feed of Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan and […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/113206030… Happy #StanislavPetrov Day to all those who celebrate, live it like it's your last. I guess I could observe this year's #Ramadoom by refusing to use LLMs but you'd have to make me in the first place. Like the one where the Catholic gives […]
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is no Republican "split" with Trump. It's catnip for access media, but the desperate ploy to align with the supermajority of voters who can't stand the president is tissue-thin. The same people saying the Iran war needs to end voted yesterday to keep it going. #Realtalk here.
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Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump - The American Prospect
They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
"shame is a watchman asleep/And faith is a keeper of swine"
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
OpenAI fires any contractor it catches using AI because they are luddites who aren't ready for the future. They too will inevitably strangle in the entrails of this collective ivermectin overdose. www.404media.co/people-training-ope…
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The dearth of satire about charismatic Christianity is, I think, largely because they already wrote all the best parodies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKz6SzUCWGI
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@futurism/spacex-stor… Lol, "Google's Project Suncatcher... the goal is to take advantage of unfiltered sunlight around the clock to power AI data centers in our planet’s orbit... limited to 15 minutes of […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
The inevitable conclusion that Harvey Weinstein winds up on the Andreessen Horowitz payroll with Larry Summers and all the other Jeffrey Epstein clients has been temporarily delayed. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/23/entertai…
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Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York | CNN
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
The hardest part of any morning is skimming the news and having to consider all over again how the Abundance Boys have spent the last decade shilling for their friends at the digital ad monopolies floating the LLM bubble for the opportunity cost of the transition to free energy and whatever […]
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
i had missed meta's muse product and man the hype press is so funny. the nyt's puff piece that is actually titled "I gave my life over to meta's A.I. agent and was blown away" cites three good things that it can do without problems: find duplicate subscriptions when given full access to a bank […]
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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Now entering the age of the secrecy. 🙁
Tweet by Jeffrey Shallit that says:

A new risk for mathematicians: a colleague reports that immediately after they posted an abstract of their upcoming talk online, a
student elsewhere used Al to derive proofs of the stated results and then posted it on the arxiv.

My colleague hadn't posted to arxiv yet.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The funny thing is that everybody outside a particular charismatic phantasmorgia is so repulsed by the President at this point that it must be in The Networks' own narrow private interests to pretend like he doesn't exist while nevertheless leaving all those yearning eyes in no less dark a dim […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
As cultural artifacts go the tidal wave of hate summoned by this Jacob Ress Mogg (a long-time reactionary Catholic Tory in British politics) monologue denouncing the racial purity politics of his peers is really something to behold your stomach to tightly even before you turn off the plugin you […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The totality of contemporary American life is our collective failure to stop feeding the trolls until it was the trolls that were starving us.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I accepted the agreement under the Flag Of the United States of America, And with the Despots for whom it stands, One Nation under Fraud, Indivisible monopolies' shittery and rubbish for all. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susa…
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/117290480… Isn't it wild that a Microsoft executive thinks plagiarizing the work of the few remaining journalists is a bigger theft of human labor than America's economic foundation in four centuries of chattel slavery and human trafficking? I […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Jon Stewart interviewed Ari Emanuel -- who is his agent? and was Trump's? -- and never asks him if maybe the CEO of the UFC soaked the $30M loss from Trump's gladiatorial games on the White House lawn as a bribe for the Presidency's support for a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Ari's wikipedia page, highlighting "CEO and executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings,[2] which owns the UFC"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_EmanuelWall Street Journal

The Paramount-Warner Merger Could Save Hollywood

California’s attorney general ignores the reality of competition in the entertainment business.

By Ari Emanuel

July 28, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-paramount-warner-merger-could-save-hollywood-f558ee4bThe Guardian

UFC’s White House spectacle led to losses of around $30m, company reveals

    - Freedom 250 staged on White House South Lawn
    - Invitation-only event cost an estimated $60m in all
    - Gaethje won title on night marred by Obama smear

Agencies
Tue 4 Aug 2026 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/04/ufc-freedom-250-white-house-losses-trumpLA Times

'I want you to be my agent.' What to know about Trump's ties with Hollywood power player Ari Emanuel

Stacy Perman
Dec 3, 2024

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That same year, Musk was among a clutch of intimates (along with Brian Grazer and Larry David) who attended Emanuel's 60th birthday party at Ivy on the Shore in Santa Monica. In the summer of 2022, when Emanuel married fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, Musk joined a select group of A-listers (Mark Wahlberg, David Zaslav) invited to their wedding in St. Tropez, France. Months later Musk was photographed yachting off the coast of Greece with the newlyweds.

Behind the scenes, Emanuel has played a quiet role in some of Musk's notable businesses.

When Musk attempted to back out of his $44-billion takeover of Twitter in 2022, causing a rift with its board, Emanuel reached out to Egon Durban, a Twitter board member and co-CEO of private equity firm Silver Lake, then Endeavor's largest shareholder.

Emanuel urged the company to "find a solution" to the legal battle ahead of the scheduled trial. Musk and the board ultimately sealed the deal and the billionaire took the social platform private, later renaming it X.

As Emanuel played peace broker between Musk and the Twitter board, he sent Musk a three-paragraph proposal on the encrypted text platform Signal offering to run Twitter with Endeavor for a fee of $100 million, saying he would cut costs, create a better culture and manage relationships with advertisers and marketers.

Emanuel's overture, unearthed in Walter Isaacson's flattering biography of the Tesla mogul, never moved forward.

Jared Birchall, Musk's right-hand man, called it "the most insulting, demeaning, insane message."

The scuttled offer apparently did little to ruffle feathers. In January 2023, Axios revealed that Endeavor had acquired a small stake in X. As for Emanuel, he has been spotted around town driving a glossy black Cybertruck.

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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Jon Stewart interviewed Ari Emanuel -- who is his agent? and was Trump's? -- and never asks him if maybe the CEO of the UFC soaked the $30M loss from Trump's gladiatorial games on the White House lawn as a bribe for the Presidency's support for a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Ari's wikipedia page, highlighting "CEO and executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings,[2] which owns the UFC"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_EmanuelWall Street Journal

The Paramount-Warner Merger Could Save Hollywood

California’s attorney general ignores the reality of competition in the entertainment business.

By Ari Emanuel

July 28, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-paramount-warner-merger-could-save-hollywood-f558ee4bThe Guardian

UFC’s White House spectacle led to losses of around $30m, company reveals

    - Freedom 250 staged on White House South Lawn
    - Invitation-only event cost an estimated $60m in all
    - Gaethje won title on night marred by Obama smear

Agencies
Tue 4 Aug 2026 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/04/ufc-freedom-250-white-house-losses-trumpLA Times

'I want you to be my agent.' What to know about Trump's ties with Hollywood power player Ari Emanuel

Stacy Perman
Dec 3, 2024

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That same year, Musk was among a clutch of intimates (along with Brian Grazer and Larry David) who attended Emanuel's 60th birthday party at Ivy on the Shore in Santa Monica. In the summer of 2022, when Emanuel married fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, Musk joined a select group of A-listers (Mark Wahlberg, David Zaslav) invited to their wedding in St. Tropez, France. Months later Musk was photographed yachting off the coast of Greece with the newlyweds.

Behind the scenes, Emanuel has played a quiet role in some of Musk's notable businesses.

When Musk attempted to back out of his $44-billion takeover of Twitter in 2022, causing a rift with its board, Emanuel reached out to Egon Durban, a Twitter board member and co-CEO of private equity firm Silver Lake, then Endeavor's largest shareholder.

Emanuel urged the company to "find a solution" to the legal battle ahead of the scheduled trial. Musk and the board ultimately sealed the deal and the billionaire took the social platform private, later renaming it X.

As Emanuel played peace broker between Musk and the Twitter board, he sent Musk a three-paragraph proposal on the encrypted text platform Signal offering to run Twitter with Endeavor for a fee of $100 million, saying he would cut costs, create a better culture and manage relationships with advertisers and marketers.

Emanuel's overture, unearthed in Walter Isaacson's flattering biography of the Tesla mogul, never moved forward.

Jared Birchall, Musk's right-hand man, called it "the most insulting, demeaning, insane message."

The scuttled offer apparently did little to ruffle feathers. In January 2023, Axios revealed that Endeavor had acquired a small stake in X. As for Emanuel, he has been spotted around town driving a glossy black Cybertruck.

https://www.aol.com/news/want-agent-know-trumps-ties-110017792.html
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
General Motors is excited to announce the highly anticipated all-new Duramax 8.3L Turbo-Diesel V8 Silverado: at $6.50 a gallon it is built to dominate stillness. news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/…
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He got pressure from the whole CA Democratic political establishment (Newsom, Becerra, Bass). And ultimately he's a product of the machine too, appointed by Newsom. The CA machine is among the worst in the country precisely because its decision-making is so critical to the country.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
These brink-of-world-war-three episodes from the Petes' targeting computers are fundamentally stories about the techbros' corrupt kickback contracts on the investment of paying for Trump's re-election, buying a buyer of last resort for their buggy software that doesn't work […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117295346… The perpetrators of 9/11 can't stop winning.
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
As with the way your sexts will be inspected by some naive at the NSA, all your chatbot prompts are ingested into the slopbot wurlitzer, whether to pester human contractors nigh-enslaved to swiveling its vectors, or ingested into its training corpus to be regurgitated when least expected […]
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