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

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Post by jlawson »

amazingamazing wrote: post #82
retskrad wrote: post #75

When Elon stripped the Twitter organisation down to its fundamental parts, saved tons of money and the service is still ran like usual, people said the he’s a moron and the service couldn’t possibly run without a bloated and inefficient workforce. They were wrong. Now that Elon is applying the same philosophy to all of his companies and now the federal government, people are once again saying he doesn’t know what he’…

Is it really impressive to reduce expenses drastically if you also reduce revenue drastically? Secondly it's doubly unimpressive because I believe Musk could have actually maintained very similar revenue levels, but the haphazard and immediate way of laying everyone off was incredibly counterproductive.

Revenue went down a lot less than expenses. So yes, profits went up a ton and are now positioned to go up even more as revenue recovers and the tech keeps functioning.

The revenue reduction was also more related to political positioning/image than technical capacity of the platform.

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

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Post by blast »

SamBam wrote: post #60
wahnfrieden wrote: post #21

Another DOGE member created a tool that generates ballot images to be used by counting machines to satisfy any statistical outcome requirements: https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3lh... He worked in contact with Musk and his sponsorship to create this tool Interesting cybercrime research credentials Yes there's not evidence available that this research was used for crime, just that the project…

That thread seemed low on evidence. It seemed reasonable that that code could be part of a test suite.

Another legitimate use would be research to demonstrate vulnerabilities in support of a return to paper ballots. Ed Felten and many others have been arguing this for years.

https://www.npr.org/2006/09/23/6129761/study-shows-vulnerabi...

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

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Post by tasuki »

koolba wrote: post #74
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.

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Eggs have been cracked, where's the omelette?

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

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Post by amazingamazing »

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #98
beart wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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I agree with your point, but it isn't Trump that showed that. It was the country itself. Even with full control of everything, the Democrats were not able to properly punish Trump. This is in large part due to the Supreme Court helping out, but also due to ineffectual prosecution (e.g. Garland), and incompetency (e.g. the Georgia case) and blatant "lawfare" (hate that term), with a misdemeanor being upgraded to a felony in New York.

This has created a scenario where the average person believes lawsuits against Trump are without merit, even though that's not true. Add in the incompetent media and you have a powerful potion.

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

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Post by throwaway173738 »

UltraSane wrote: post #89
bloopernova wrote: post #30

And now musk is calling for the impeachment of Judge Paul Engelmayer who blocked his department from accessing government payment/financial systems. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5134725-elon-musk-impe... This should be mandatory reading for everyone who argues this is just fine: https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/022...

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If I’ve learned anything it’s that our citizenship should be irrevocable.

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

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Post by mlyle »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #99
9283409232 wrote: post #79

Why are high level figures in these departments just letting them walk in and have access? Tell them to kick rocks until they have proper clearances.

> Why are high level figures in these departments just letting them walk in The better question is what are all the Congressmen doing cozily on Capitol Hill. Like, not one has walked over to these departments to try and physically stop these kids from gaining the keys to the kingdom? (EDIT: Whoops, they have.)

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-blocked-education-departm...

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

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…

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