Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
与埃隆·马斯克分手，难于上青天
In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. 在一场复古的 MySpace 式互联网闹剧中，希冯·齐利斯（Shivon Zilis）在 X 上宣布，她与四个孩子的父亲埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）已经分手。
To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted Musk was no longer following her on X. It was also sponsored by Kalshi, because everything in this relationship is totally fucking cursed, dude. 为了宣布这一消息，她转发了“Big Tech Alert”账号的一条推文。该账号主要负责监控各账号之间的关注与取关动态。那条推文指出，马斯克已在 X 上取消了对她的关注。该推文还由 Kalshi 赞助，毕竟这段关系里的一切都该死地充满了诅咒，伙计。
In her statement, Zilis wrote, “It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes.” 齐利斯在声明中写道：“在毫无预警的情况下，一周内从相爱到放手确实很难，但有时候生活就是这样。”
“Uh, you know.” “呃，你知道的。”
Zilis, in addition to her romantic, uh, entanglement with Musk, also served as… well, she denied under oath that she was his chief of staff but says she worked across Musk’s “entire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI” during a trial earlier this year, in which Musk sued Sam Altman — long story, there’s some specious legal reasoning but mostly it just looks like punishment for being successful without Musk — over Musk’s donations to OpenAI. During the trial, she claimed to work 80-to-100-hour weeks for Musk, “to go find bottlenecks and solve them.” 除了与马斯克那段“呃”浪漫纠葛外，齐利斯还担任过……好吧，她在今年早些时候的一场庭审中宣誓否认自己是他的幕僚长，但她表示自己曾负责马斯克“整个 AI 投资组合：特斯拉、Neuralink 和 OpenAI”的工作。那场庭审是关于马斯克起诉萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）的——说来话长，其中有一些站不住脚的法律逻辑，但看起来更像是对奥特曼在没有马斯克的情况下取得成功的一种惩罚——起因是马斯克对 OpenAI 的捐款问题。在庭审期间，她声称每周为马斯克工作 80 到 100 个小时，“去寻找瓶颈并解决它们”。
Musk apparently had a different view of her role, testifying that she was his chief of staff, and “uh, you know,” prompting loud laughter from the courtroom’s gallery. 马斯克显然对她的角色有不同的看法，他在作证时称她是他的幕僚长，并说了句“呃，你知道的”，引得法庭旁听席上一阵哄堂大笑。
Musk has a history of public flameouts with the women who bear his children. Besides his first wife, Justine Musk, who wrote “I Was a Starter Wife” before going absolutely silent on the subject of her ex, another mother of his children, Ashley St. Clair, has said that she rejected a $40 million NDA from Musk. (She is presently suing him over his chatbot, Grok, making deepfake nudes of her.) Another ex, Grimes, referred to pregnancy as “sacrificing your body and your freedom,” and later sued him to establish a parental relationship. Grimes also posted and deleted a tweet saying “Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer” to Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson in 2023. 马斯克与为他生孩子的女性之间有着公开闹翻的“前科”。除了他的第一任妻子贾斯汀·马斯克（Justine Musk）——她在写下《我曾是原配妻子》后便对前夫的话题保持绝对沉默——他另一个孩子的母亲阿什利·圣克莱尔（Ashley St. Clair）曾表示，她拒绝了马斯克提供的 4000 万美元保密协议（NDA）。（她目前正因马斯克的聊天机器人 Grok 生成她的深度伪造裸照而起诉他。）另一位前任格莱姆斯（Grimes）曾将怀孕称为“牺牲身体和自由”，后来起诉他以确立亲子关系。2023 年，格莱姆斯还曾向马斯克的传记作者沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）发布并随后删除了推文，写道：“告诉希冯把我从黑名单里放出来，告诉埃隆让我见见我的儿子，或者请回复我的律师。”
Musk’s fixer, Jared Birchall, orchestrates privacy deals for Musk with the baby mamas. Musk has 14 known children. 马斯克的“清理人”贾里德·伯查尔（Jared Birchall）负责为马斯克与这些孩子的母亲们协调隐私协议。马斯克目前已知有 14 个孩子。
Zilis was a member of OpenAI’s board when she gave birth to twins, though she kept the parentage of the children secret. She only informed her coworkers about having kids with one of their competitors in 2022, after Business Insider reported on court documents listing Musk as the children’s father. Musk lived with her at the time of the testimony. 齐利斯在生下双胞胎时是 OpenAI 的董事会成员，但她对孩子的父亲身份保密。直到 2022 年《商业内幕》报道了列明马斯克为孩子父亲的法庭文件后，她才告知同事自己与他们的竞争对手之一有了孩子。在作证时，马斯克与她住在一起。
During her testimony in the case, Zilis appeared to worship Musk, and her breakup post strikes roughly the same tone. “I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness,” she wrote. “Given the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide.” 在案件作证期间，齐利斯表现得对马斯克崇拜有加，而她的分手帖也大致保持了同样的基调。她写道：“我感到很高兴，我能让埃隆感受到被深深理解、呵护，以及在稳定和温柔中被平静地爱着是什么感觉。考虑到他早年生活的动荡、他那常受折磨的灵魂，以及他为人类奋斗的艰辛，我希望他能感受到这个世界所能提供的最深沉、最稳定的爱。”
The post is so groveling that had I not witnessed her in court, I would have assumed this was some kind of passive-aggressive revenge strategy. Personally, if one of my exes publicly wrote that I was a poor fragile wreck trying to save the world who desperately needed a haven of safety, I would simply die of embarrassment, but God really does make all kinds. 这篇帖子卑微到令人难以置信，如果我没有在法庭上亲眼见过她，我会以为这是一种消极攻击式的复仇策略。就我个人而言，如果我的前任公开写道我是一个试图拯救世界、极度需要安全港湾的可怜脆弱的残骸，我会尴尬得想死，但上帝确实创造了各种各样的人。
“I’ve loved him more than life itself and he’s taught me 100 lifetimes of knowledge and made my cup overflow with life meaning, so there is a lot of loss, but luckily we created four beautiful little loves of my life,” Zilis wrote. “我爱他胜过爱自己的生命，他教会了我 100 辈子的知识，让我的生命意义满溢，所以失去的感觉很强烈，但幸运的是，我们创造了四个我生命中可爱的小宝贝，”齐利斯写道。
Last week, Zilis posted about a memoir written by Maye Musk, Elon’s mother: “During tough moments I think about the resilience she’s shown and realize she’s encountered 100x the difficultly I’ve faced and she made it through with grace! It gives me resolve.” I guess we know now what some of the “tough moments” were. “I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a beacon of resilience to draw inspiration from,” she added. 上周，齐利斯发布了关于埃隆母亲梅耶·马斯克（Maye Musk）所著回忆录的内容：“在艰难时刻，我会想到她所展现出的韧性，并意识到她所经历的困难是我所面临的 100 倍，而她却优雅地挺了过来！这给了我决心。”我想我们现在知道那些“艰难时刻”指的是什么了。“我强烈向任何想要寻找韧性灯塔并从中汲取灵感的人推荐这本书，”她补充道。