Matt Bernstein
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And it's interesting that they become the sacrificial lambs in this situation.
And, you know, they fully deserve it, but...
Right now, there are so many people who aren't being deposed, who live in this world where they are making these decisions that upend all of our lives.
Currently, I feel this way about every single billionaire.
And they are acting with impunity.
And I feel like it's important to remember that.
Yeah, where's Elon?
Where's Elon for these kids?
Sorry, I actually shouldn't call them kids because they are adult men.
This is true.
So in this vein of feeling innate guilt and attempting to covertly cover up some of what he did at Doge, Justin Fox avoids telling us and then openly admits that he was not simply scanning the descriptions of thousands of different NEH grants himself,
for words like LGBTQ, homosexual, DEI, environmental justice, etc.
No, no, he had some help.
It's like asking a thesaurus for as many different ways to say chat GPT.
he does not he does not want to say chat gpt did this shit for me blame chat gpt bro i was not me because he knows he knows that like this guy okay within these i'm getting red in the face underneath the foundation
Within the context of these corporate business worlds that these boys come from, these men come from, they master this like corporate jargon newspeak.
He knows that like to a normie or to a boss that he might have to impress, talking about using closed source LLMs on top of Excel spreadsheets sounds a lot more sophisticated than I put into chat GPT, tell me which grants have LGBT in the description.
That's what he was doing.
So Justin is then tasked with explaining why he chose to help terminate one specific grant for an Alaskan language project.
And the attorney reads him his own stated reasoning.