For context, this article is from 2022 but it was just reposted by the Onion’s social media accounts tonight, and I’m sharing it here, because: The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster / Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

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At press time, sources confirmed Musk had publicly fired a prominent CPU for loudly humming in a way that he said constituted insubordination.

Hmm, yes

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remember when elon just started yanking out servers and twitter had a sustained months-long meltdown?

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I thought it was about the more recent issues until I saw your post :)

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1/3 will need to justify their presence in writing or be removed.

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“Remove all the wires, or you are all fired. We’re transitioning to the AI Cloud. You’ll all be sleeping in your office cots this month.”

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The grammar falling apart at the very end of the title is peak Onion writing.

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I love headlinese.

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