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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That reads like something out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Zaphod Beeblebrox, because of "an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine", father, grandfather, and great-grandfather are actually his direct descendants.

Musk must have been the offspring of an unspeakable accident between Zaphod and one of those Sacramento racks.

[–] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

That reads like something out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I was thinking an episode of Silicon Valley but yeah, Hitchhiker's Guide fits too...