Everything about the current situation with DOGE and eLoon and all his little minions like Mr. Elez, just seems to be bad, awkward. Poor casting.
This is where the movie "Swordfish" is relevant. It was a 2001 tech-inspired action thriller that had great potential but failed to deliver on every possible metric.
It featured Hugh Jakeman as Stanley Jobson as a elite hacker, enlisted to help steal $10 billion dollars from the government for John Travolta's character Gabriel Shear.
Casting for this movie is amazing, with Jackman, Travolta, Berry, Cheadle, Shepard and De Matteo.
While these actors are true masters of their craft, you can't shake the feeling throughout the whole thing that something is off.
Hugh Jakeman is a legendary actor but his role as a hacker in this movie is absolutely terrible. Nothing he does in the movie even resembles what hacking actually looks like and this is easily one of his most awkwardly executed roles of his career.
I summarized the movie because I see a lot of it in what is happening right now. A narcissistic, ego driven over the top cookie cutter villain. An easily manipulated hacker that sees himself as a hero but is really about as out of place as a pet gold fish at the Westminster Dog Show and just as awkward.
My evidence straight from the OP article:
Elez removed the key from his GitHub but the key itself was not revoked, allowing continued access to the AI models.
While he may be very good at what he was doing before this, being a racist Nazi I suppose, he is very bad at hacking and managing computer systems. Its just not the right role but this is the role his over the top narcissistic boss, in this case, eLoon, needs him to do because when it's all over he needs people like Mr. Elez to be left holding the bag and taking the blame just like Travolta's character intended for Jackman's character.
The movie had bad casting and poor writing but a mediocre movie doesn't hurt anything but your patience.
But people like eLoon and Elez and DOGE and Mango Mussolini, are causing real harm and harm that go on and on long after this movie is over.
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