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Alleged Tech Genius Elon Musk Makes Programming Joke That Makes Zero Sense
Buy-n-Shoot NewsIs Elon Musk a generational tech genius? We think not. We submit this poorly constructed, literal years-in-the-making joke that Musk seemingly made to flaunt his programmer — and culture warrior — cred, in which he bizarrely admits to having once been "woke." "traceroute woke_mind_virus," Musk wrote in a tweet in December 2021 in the style of a Linux command. Now, years later, he's followed it up with this mockery of command terminals everywhere: "woke_mind_virus found at 127.0.0.1" Musk wrote this week. "woke_mind_virus deleted rm -rf." The "joke" is that the IP, 127.0.0.1, is the localhost, or the computer that's being […]