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Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by amazingamazing »

The biggest irony to me is that Musk wanted to reneg on the Twitter sale. It's interesting to consider the timeline where he was allowed to not buy it. Truly a "canon" event, that one.

I'm also not convinced this is a "security breach." They're being allowed to do it. It's more like an unforced error, if anything. Not that it changes anything material about the situation.

That said - a small majority of congress is currently complicit in this, but I expect that to reverse as many Republican states will have congresspeople whose constituents are affected. I'd expect by May of this year some of this will have been reversed.

Sadly that's too long and some damage will be done perhaps permanently...

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by fn-mote »

ty6853 wrote: post #38

A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.

This would be a lot more powerful with a citation. I did read the article but didn’t find this story you are referring to.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by likeabatterycar »

ty6853 wrote: post #38

A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.

> guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer

So, like every private sector job nowadays?

Everyone is acting like this is the first time in history someone's been called into a meeting with a ponytailed 25 year old to have the "What is it ya do here?" discussion.

Memorialized in a movie so old now that most zoomers haven't even heard of it, let alone seen it. Only the Bobs have now been replaced with 'Skylar'.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by shitter »

laidoffamazon wrote: post #4

This is uh, a more than a little disturbing. Is JD Vance going to say that he deserves grace too? More context [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization)

For reference: JD Vance said that another DOGE staffer, who resigned after it was reported that he'd publicly come out in favor of racism, eugenics, and normalizing hate against Indian people on Twitter, should be rehired because it was just "stupid social media activity".

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by ty6853 »

fn-mote wrote: post #62
ty6853 wrote: post #38

A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.

This would be a lot more powerful with a citation. I did read the article but didn’t find this story you are referring to.

“My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20, 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence,” one speaker at a recent town hall in northern Virginia said without identifying himself or his agency due to fear of retaliation.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/musk-doge-staffers-f...

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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Post by beart »

fabian2k wrote: post #47

Ignoring the horrifying political parts, I think one aspect here about data access that is inherently worrying is that it seems like all usual controls were bypassed and the DOGE people had very low level access to systems. So there are probably copies of sensitive data now in their possession, and nobody knows exactly what was copied and where it is stored. This kind of access would be dangerous even in the hands of…

Agreed. The political motivations need not even be a factor. Data privacy and access policies were bypassed by unauthorized actors.
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