[US Politics]
So, one thing that people are saying about the changes that the DOGE program is making is they seem similar to the changes Musk made when he bought Twitter.
That is: firing lots of people, demanding loyalty, shutting down systems without knowing what they do.
So, one thing that people are saying about the changes that the DOGE program is making is they seem similar to the changes Musk made when he bought Twitter.
That is: firing lots of people, demanding loyalty, shutting down systems without knowing what they do.
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The general consensus at the time was that these changes were going to make the wheels fall off the giant, international computer system called Twitter, then X, and it would have outages and eventually stop working at all.
This hasn't happened. Or, rather, the main endpoint (non-working computer system) hasn't happened. X has continued operating and even has rolled out new features.
I think understanding why could be helpful in dealing with whatever is happening with DOGE.
@evan
It did, however, go from being a flawed pseudo public square to being a straight up Nazi bar. That seems the more alarming parallel to focus on.
@muhkayoh that would be valuable if the question was, how bad can this get? All signals indicate, quite bad indeed.
But I'm asking, how does this get mitigated or even, in parts, repaired? And I think the model of previous chaos monkey runs might be helpful, but not conclusive.
@evan It was less talked about but he did end up re-hiring. The idea was to fire a ton of people, see what breaks, and re-hire for the crucial stuff
Also tons of things are permanently broken on Twitter. The search used to be able to search so well one decade in the past. It's […]
It's not my position that nothing bad has happened at Twitter and thus nothing bad will happen in the US government. Far from it.
I'm asking, if the damage already done to the US government can be mitigated, does the model of the mitigation of, and adaptation to, damage done to […]
@evan I'm seriously expecting something to collapse when we most likely hit a budget standoff in mid-March. If this is too ugly now for people they haven't seen how ugly it truly can get.