Elon Musk Chief Nerd's Elaborate $1,000 Troll Scam
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Among Elon Musk’s geek army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to check out a manifesto about why he signed up with DOGE - just to discover the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced boys with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by the ‘First Buddy’ to sow havoc in the civil service.

He was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to staff members at USAID informing them not to come into the company’s Washington DC headquarters on Monday.

Kliger sent out the instruction from a USAID email address he was offered with as part of to its systems, in addition to fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the personnel were kept home, DOGE gained access to the company’s IT system, developing security, and classified products, and started dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: ‘Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure wage to conserve America.’

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was ‘customer only’ with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it.

However, those who wondered adequate to spend the remarkable fee discovered there wasn’t even that - the post was completely blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, asteroidsathome.net is among six baby-faced boys 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 offered up a seven-figure income to conserve America’. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is totally empty

‘Poetically blank, please reevaluate your life options,’ one discuss the post read.

Kliger advanced his sophisticated trolling with a strange voicemail welcoming that pointed anybody who called his registered telephone number to the post.

‘I just composed a beautiful Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it lags the paywall, but I believe it will answer that concern for you … it’s pretty excellent,’ he said.

The one-minute welcoming was an elongated variation of the prank where the owner of the phone pretends to respond to, however it is actually recorded.

Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having problem hearing the call, then ultimately exclaiming, ‘They said what? No, no, I don’t 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 only has 2 other posts - both of which are free to check out.

Despite its name, Kliger’s Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just has 3 posts

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was ‘subscriber just’ with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for a whole 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 found he paid for sex with 17-year-old girl and numerous other misbehaviors.

Kliger’s post entitled ‘The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies’ represented 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 previous Fox News host’s nomination filled with regular Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was narrowly confirmed by the Senate regardless of his history of alcoholic abuse and claims of sexual attack and harassment.

Kliger’s claim that he left a ‘seven-figure task’ to join DOGE is also suspicious as his economic sector work history didn’t consist of such a function.

His newest task, 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 range from $102,000 to $308,000 a year according to Certainly, while Glassdoor puts the leading end at $321,000, including perk.

Kliger was the one who sent a company-wide email sent to employees at USAID informing them not to come into the company’s Washington DC headquarters on Monday

The Berkeley graduate supposedly instructed all employees 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 appointed him a special advisor to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, bbarlock.com where various other Musk lackeys were installed.

The Tesla owner has actually essentially taken over the OPM, in addition to the General Services Administration, through his management of DOGE.

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

‘I wish to do work that will influence the future,’ it read.

‘Whether that suggests establishing software application, looking into system deployment, or operating in some other sphere, I understand that I will contribute insight and imagination towards meeting the obstacles I deal with.

‘In my extra time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and attending music concerts at Berkeley. Among my favorite activities is playing online blitz chess.’

Kliger’s father, Larry Kliger, surgiteams.com is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a business real estate company.

Musk last month selected Kliger an unique adviser to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were installed

Who are Musk’s other geeks?

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 functions and cut costs.

At simply 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on corporate America and longstanding federal government institutions.

According to WIRED, he’s been dubbed an ‘specialist’ in his field, and specifics about his function aren’t yet clear.

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

Musk’s DOGE has actually been quickly growing in power and broadening its remit, most recently protecting clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.

These systems save sensitive information consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

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

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been called for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a ‘volunteer’ basis at this stage.

After widespread criticism about the guys’s youth, Musk released a statement about the visits.

‘Time to confess: wiki.fablabbcn.org Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world’s finest software engineers remain in fact true,’ Musk composed on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

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

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

Friedman explained Farritor as ‘a national treasure’ after his visit with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after using AI technology to assist understand a 2,000 year old document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which researchers had been attempting, and failing, to fix for centuries.

The charred scroll was believed burnt beyond acknowledgment.

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

Edward Coristine, 19

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

Coristine supposedly interned at Musk’s Neuralink for three months last summer, after graduating high school.

Little is understood about Coristine’s role at DOGE, however he is listed as an ‘professional.’

WIRED mentioned sources alleging Coristine has actually been performing calls with staff in the department and making them ‘review code they had composed and justify their tasks.’

Employees were apparently confused by his inclusion in the meetings, and later revealed concerns that they were not appropriately informed on his identity or function, even during the call.

Coristine’s daddy, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine once worked as an employee for the brand name.

Up until recently, Coristine reportedly utilized a social media handle called ‘@EdwardBigBaller.’

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

Akash Bobba, 21

Bobba is another ‘professional’ within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

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

Just 6 years back, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, local design 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, telling his classmates to ‘value the intricacy in life’.

” We reside in an age where simplicity reigns supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to define our identities,’ he said.

‘This increasing willingness to streamline even the most intricate narratives into spectacular tidbits, perpetuates false information and at the same time divides the neighborhoods, families, and relationships we value.

‘What’s the option, you might ask? Seek pain.’

Bobba is another ‘professional’ 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 operating in the school’s computing laboratory on autonomous cars.

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

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

He likewise has a link to Musk, having taken part in his xAI ‘hackathon’. He and his group were runner ups after they utilized xAI’s Grok to produce plausible responses from X followers to a theoretical concern.

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for professionals. The start-up made a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023

Gautier Cole Killian, 24

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency financial 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 specializes in high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms

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Musk’s DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading a remarkable civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump’s agreement.

‘It emerged 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 basically get rid of the entire thing. It’s beyond repair.’

Musk just recently hinted he was likewise the mastermind behind Trump’s choice to purge federal workers by posting a symbolic picture on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter cleanse.

At the time, he sent out a letter to personnel titled: ‘A Fork in the Road.’ The same title was utilized in Trump’s recent email proposing generous lay-off bundles

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

Musk does not hold elected workplace, however on Monday was officially appointed a ‘special federal government employee’ by the White House.

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