New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government.
The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced
The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced
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This website says the quiet part about Elon without saying the quiet part out loud…..
Let’s make Elon’s website go viral..!!
https://www.HeIsAdick.com
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It's time to steal everything they have! Take every single penny they have and send them home to Putin! They don't belong here! We don't want them here!
How can this be happening? Elon Musk and DOGE are not Congress.
Why can’t you stop DOGE? They are wasting the taxpayer’s money and making Congress look inept.
The US is NOT his private company
Hey congressional republicans-why don’t you know this??
This website says the quiet part about Elon without saying the quiet part out loud…..
Let’s make Elon’s website go viral..!!
https://www.HeIsAdick.com
I deeply hope climatechange tripples out Elon. He will only learn it the hard way. It’s always beende like that. But for us, the people it won’t help, time is running out, to act about climatechange. It’s really sad….
We should stop being surprised by the obvious.
https://help.usajobs.gov/working-in-government/non-citizens
I’ve been calling and emailing my representatives! I use 5 Calls App for calls and Resist Bot for emails and signing petitions . https://resist.bot/ https://resist.bot/petitions
March 4th Protests! For protests and sit ins: https://www.fiftyfifty.one https://www.mobilize.us https://indivisible.org
NIH attracts many data scientists for ex
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Let them carry on for a bit more and it'll be decades, if ever.
Congress seems content to let whatever happens happen.
IMO, it's on us, the people, to step in but not many seem to care that deeply.
How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency
https://wapo.st/43kvcl0
What the actual fuck are our representatives doing?
https://bsky.app/profile/shaunc.bsky.social/post/3lj44zgzskc2a
implement a (data structure of choice) in (language of choice)
and the first line they write is
"[import, #include, with ...] {utility library with data structure they were asked to implement}.
and of course absolutely no unit tests.
It’s not just about the technical chops, it’s about the instincts and high EQ. Which requires - Experience!
And the assumption that govt workers aren't good coders. Coding isn't hard. All the other stuff you talk about in this thread is what makes these fired employees valuable.
And the fact that it stayed that way for *hours* after being reported.
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
https://bsky.app/profile/scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz/post/3ljebhxjlw22y
From Dan Tangherlini, former GSA Administrator who oversaw 18F.
But your users sure do.
This was not a good decision.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced
Is doing. Looks as if they are wiping out companies and replacing workers and putting in their own people. It looks like the employees of 18F ARE FIGHTING BACK. They need to know we have their back. This is their
Livelihoods. SUPPORT
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced
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