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Former Waco newspaperman, current Houston streamer. He/him. Song lyrics/essays/miscellanea at faxpaladin.com
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18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.
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The people in power intend to completely annihilate scientific infrastructure, capacity, & research in the US. No institution will be spared if its mission is to advance science.
Everyone is already a target, whether you speak up or not. So, institutions, consider speaking up.
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I'm gonna be That Guy and say that hammering on "Trump hates Our Troops and Our Vets" is a strong tactic to pry less-shitty white voters out of MAGA or "I just thought he'd bring back 2019" rubes.
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Not according to 47. To him everything is transactional and zero-sum and the object of negotiation is to Win and force the other party to eat... something undesirable.
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Leo got moderated, at least on my end.
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Hey DOGE bros - found another $200M worth of wasteful spending.
Let's goooooo!!
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As O'Brien said to Winston Smith, deep in the bowels of the Ministry of Love...
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It's supposed to *move fast and break things*, with an illusion of infallibility that can be pointed to as cover, with a head shake and an "it's out of my hands," by the people who *want things broken*.
Remember, too, that these are people who see *you* as things, and want you broken, too. 4/4
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...but he's also already moving to eliminate a major competitor.
This is all, of course, ignoring the elephant in the room, which is that the AI *can't do the damn job.*
But then, it's not really supposed to, is it? 3/X
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Given that one of the biggest goals of his ongoing government takeover is replacing almost all the humans with AI systems, the question then becomes: whose AI? It's bad enough that Musk, with his own dog(e) in the hunt, is in the position to decide that... 2/X