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Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anybody seriously considering letting one of Elon's companies put things in your brain should probably read the story of him crawling under floorboards to unplug random servers because "Elon knows best".

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/

The man is a fucking cowboy.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is actually hilarious, thanks for the link. Below is a snippet, and honestly it's not even necessarily the best part, the whole thing is a wild read.

“These things do not look that hard to move,” Elon announced. It was a reality-distorting assertion, since each rack weighed about 2,500 pounds and was eight feet tall.

“You’ll have to hire a contractor to lift the floor panels,” Alex said. “They need to be lifted with suction cups.” Another set of contractors, he said, would then have to go underneath the floor panels and disconnect the electric cables and seismic rods.

Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved.