I am going to become a paranoid Stallmanite Corebooted 2008 Thinkpad Linux Bro that refuses to give out my name to anyone that isn’t a close friend.
In 2029 we need to throw out all federal IT systems and rebuild from the ground up, entirely.
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At this point the US government is likely more deeply penetrated by foreign spies than Ukraine was in 2014.
Even if Trump were impeached and convicted next week, some of this damage can not be undone for generations.
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> In a written statement, Will Powell, the acting press secretary for the General Services Administration, of which TTS is a part, said Shedd needs this level of access to rapidly identify “areas for optimization and efficiencies” and insisted that he is working with “appropriate GSA officials” to follow established protocols.
Journalists really need to start identifying Trump appointees whenever they’re cited so that we can know to dismiss everything they say as lies
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The amount of power DOGE has makes it look like a Deep State.
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> The risk of harm, abuse, or political revenge is clear. But simple, brazen corruption is also a concern among the federal workers we spoke with. The CDC staffer wondered if DOGE’s unelected and seemingly unaccountable leadership, including Musk, might simply want to sell the public-health data the CDC collects. Democratic leaders have also expressed the worry that Musk’s interest in SpaceX, which has received billions of dollars in contracts from NASA over the years, creates an untenable conflict of interest. The NASA employee worried that Musk would end up “reaping all of the profits of the investment that the American public put into NASA’s research, which was being shared with the country.” NASA holds technical specs and research data for SpaceX competitors, and insiders fear that such information will soon be compromised, too. They also worry that classified NASA R&D in areas such as quantum, biotech, and astrobiology could be stolen for private gain.
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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It’s frustrating that basically everyone will have their information compromised, but because it’ll be impossible to attribute responsibility for this along with government protections, there won’t be any legal standing to sue the ever-loving shit out of Musk et al.
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I am going to become a paranoid Stallmanite Corebooted 2008 Thinkpad Linux Bro that refuses to give out my name to anyone that isn’t a close friend.
In 2029 we need to throw out all federal IT systems and rebuild from the ground up, entirely.
At this point the US government is likely more deeply penetrated by foreign spies than Ukraine was in 2014.
Even if Trump were impeached and convicted next week, some of this damage can not be undone for generations.
> In a written statement, Will Powell, the acting press secretary for the General Services Administration, of which TTS is a part, said Shedd needs this level of access to rapidly identify “areas for optimization and efficiencies” and insisted that he is working with “appropriate GSA officials” to follow established protocols.
Journalists really need to start identifying Trump appointees whenever they’re cited so that we can know to dismiss everything they say as lies
The amount of power DOGE has makes it look like a Deep State.
> The risk of harm, abuse, or political revenge is clear. But simple, brazen corruption is also a concern among the federal workers we spoke with. The CDC staffer wondered if DOGE’s unelected and seemingly unaccountable leadership, including Musk, might simply want to sell the public-health data the CDC collects. Democratic leaders have also expressed the worry that Musk’s interest in SpaceX, which has received billions of dollars in contracts from NASA over the years, creates an untenable conflict of interest. The NASA employee worried that Musk would end up “reaping all of the profits of the investment that the American public put into NASA’s research, which was being shared with the country.” NASA holds technical specs and research data for SpaceX competitors, and insiders fear that such information will soon be compromised, too. They also worry that classified NASA R&D in areas such as quantum, biotech, and astrobiology could be stolen for private gain.
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
It’s frustrating that basically everyone will have their information compromised, but because it’ll be impossible to attribute responsibility for this along with government protections, there won’t be any legal standing to sue the ever-loving shit out of Musk et al.