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I told him that I'd been playing it since before he was born. No mercy for those kids 👿
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Yup, I'll check then!
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Ahah I see I really thought Bluesky made an update about this 😅
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It's only in private ?
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On postule où ça ? 🤣
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And by the way ...
Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/fda... via @reuters.com
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And there's more to come. DOGE uses AI to blindly purge workplace safety publications. All it takes is for the words “miscellaneous” or “diversity” or “gender” to appear, and the publication is destroyed, electronically and on paper. No matter the context.
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Via @apnews.com
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“I think the signal being sent to adversaries of the United States is pretty clear: get in the way of the entire national security apparatus and sow disorder,” he said. “That can only benefit the adversaries of this country.”
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Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear security at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the layoffs could disrupt the agency's day-to-day operations and create a sense of instability about the nuclear program, both at home and abroad.
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In response, the laboratories have made massive recruitments in recent years: by 2023, 60% of the workforce had been in post for five years or less.
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But the laboratory is now at the heart of a vast $750 billion nuclear weapons modernization program, which includes new land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, new stealth bombers and new submarine-launched nuclear warheads.
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Many federal employees who had worked on the country's nuclear programs had spent their entire careers there, and there has been a wave of retirements in recent years that has cost the agency years of institutional knowledge.
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Not all NNSA staff who had been reinstated could be contacted after being dismissed, and some were questioning whether they should return to work, given the uncertainty created by DOGE.
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This included managing massive radioactive waste sites and ensuring that the materials there did not further contaminate neighboring communities.
@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social and @murray.senate.gov of Washington, both Democrats, called last week's firings “totally cruel and dangerous”.
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While some of the Department of Energy employees who were laid off dealt with energy efficiency and the effects of climate change, issues that were not considered priorities by the Trump administration, many others dealt with nuclear issues, even if they didn't work directly on weapons programs.
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“Reducing the federal workforce responsible for these functions can be viewed as reckless at best and adverse opportunism at worst.”
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Deputy Division Director Rob Plonski said “We must decide if we are truly committed to playing a leading role on the world stage, or if we are content to undermine the very systems that secure our nation's future”.
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But that wasn't the case. The dismissals prompted a senior NNSA official to issue a warning and a call to action.
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The testimony of the 3 officials contradicts an official statement by the Department of Energy, which said that fewer than 50 National Nuclear Security Administration employees had been terminated, describing them as “probationary employees” who were “primarily engaged in administrative functions”.
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“This letter serves as official notification that the termination decision issued to you on February 13, 2025 has been rescinded, effective immediately,” says the memo, obtained by @apnews.com .
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They don't seem to realize that this is actually the Department of Nuclear Weapons more than the Department of Energy.”
Late Friday evening, the agency's acting director, Teresa Robbins, issued a memo rescinding the dismissals of all but 28 of the laid-off staff.
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Executive director of the Arms Control Association Daryl Kimball said “The DOGE people come in with no knowledge of the responsibilities of these departments,” said , referring to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team. “
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The hundreds of layoffs at NNSA were part of a DOGE purge within the Department of Energy that targeted around 2,000 employees.
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The employees concerned work on the reassembly of nuclear warheads, one of the most sensitive tasks in the nuclear weapons industry, and benefit from the highest levels of clearance.
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They then attempted to enter their offices on Friday morning, only to discover that they were locked out. The managers spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The Pantex plant near Amarillo, Texas, was one of the hardest hit, with almost 30% job losses.
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Three U.S. officials told the Associated Press that up to 350 employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NSA) were abruptly fired on Thursday evening. Some of them lost access to their e-mail before learning of their dismissal.
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I think, yes ! That's why it'b be better to stop using it
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Despite Altman's refusal on X, Musk may get his way if Open AI's investors give in to the appeal of the mountain of cash on offer.
www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...