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"Individuals should always wonder who wrote the software running in their heads," Musk commented. "Most humans have very limited firewalls," he elaborated elsewhere, "so are easily reprogrammed".

Musk's approach assumed that all expenditures were waste, and that bad data - whether fraudulent contracts, useless staff, or illegitimate people - could simply be deleted. What DOGE sought to automate, media researcher Eryk Salvaggio noted, was "not paperwork but democratic decision-making". Efficiency became the alibi for centralisation.

Musk understood empathy itself in coding terms. It was an "exploit" or a software vulnerability against which the system architecture needed to be hardened.

After acquiring Twitter, Musk laid off nearly 80% of its staff and forced the remaining employees to work harder. Meanwhile, he pushed the platform's content to the right. If the social network was an "information weapon", why not wield it against his enemies? To fight wokeness, Musk would develop a new pathogen, propagated through a cascade of counter-memes: the anti-woke mind virus.