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A shitposting plane who knows stuff about polls, drug development, and CFR Part 11 validation.
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Also, not that surprising. These assholes have egos. And you don't necessarily know what a person who has ever done something like -run a gigantic federal agency- is going to do when they are put in that situation.
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It's honestly hilarious and in hindsight shockingly predictable that intergovernmental resistance to Elon wouldn't come from a Trump-Elon rift, but rather a Trump cabinet-Elon rift as the latter still had mostly functioning brains without leaks through the ears.
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Kash, amusingly enough, also builds the bureaucratic permissions matrix for literally everyone to ignore Elon. He's the loyalist in LE. Get the feeling we are in for some grumpy ass tweets on Tuesday.
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Musk did recognize that he only had limited time to do what he wanted, and that when agency heads got in, he would be immediately stymied. He's also a fucking moron who brought in 20 junior engineers and spent weeks fighting over USAID
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But it had direct attributed quotes.
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Uh. Need to dig it up. It was in one of the science publications todayesh
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Yeah. Kept the entire Indian Health Service from getting fired (illegally)
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Anyone who's tried to manage a system that requires e-mail verification for an account knows just how much of nightmare this can turn into, especially if it's coming from a generic sounding e-mail like "admin@" or "info@"
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There’s no apparent rhyme or reason to who got one and who did not
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Per a hill source, one federal judge got the email
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Someone else mentioned that federal clerks were getting it as well.
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Story of our time.
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dude at treasury that got brought in like day 1. Cloudwatch or w/e CEO
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long and short? This e-mail is part of the fact that I think Elon's flailing is becoming politically untenable. The absolute key battle is once again Impoundments, which, basically, is in a tough place because of what Vought can do as head of budgeting.
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3.) They appear to be getting more spooked about the mass firings - plans are backing off in places, especially involving the VA.
4.) The whitehouse is now touting "precision."
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2.) Groups of people getting fired are getting rather desperately unfired. RFK saved the IHA agency at HHS, for instance, and vowed to protect it and also grow it. (which, i mean, good I guess?) NNSA, National Park service, etc.
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I mean it comes from a private server that isn't set up properly so it fails basically every spam filter test.
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It isn't Elon, that dude is a drug addled, sleep-deprived mess.
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Yeah, general reports coming out right now seem to be department heads are going 'NO ONE DO ANYTHING UNTIL MONDAY'
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I'm afraid that we all must, regrettably, at this point, admit to ourselves that we are going down because we've unleashed the dumbest man children possible into the federal government.
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Which feels like the lawyers (who just told DOJ that Elon Musk has no official government role and makes no official government decisions) took that piece out.
Or maybe not, who knows. This is Elon we're talking about.
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Which is why it's pretty obvious this is going to get processed through an LLM and hunt for key words.
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Something I would, however, expect anyone above the qualification of Junior Engineer to be able to do if they worked in web software.
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to be fair, the e-mail that actually got sent DOESN'T say that.
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Amazing work everyone.
No notes.
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Probably need a timestamp on the e-mail to know.
If it's Musk tweeting and then the lawyers taking it out, that's going to get hilarious.
The vice-versa is equally very not good for him.
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Chat, when I think of people who suffer fools gladly and aren't massively self-important, I think of federal judges.