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US Tech Force
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#192Did I miss congress passing a new set of laws creating the US Tech Force? I'm confused, as this seems like a direct and open violation of the Appointments Clause.
oh no I wonder what will happen
You're being facetious I see, but I assume there will be litigation brought up against it being illegal, and then it will be stuck down as blatantly illegal in the next 6 months, and people involved will not get paid and be fired / dissolved.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is a thing you can only say if you know very little about the talent pipeline for actual espionage technology in the USG Or something one might want to say if they want to still have plausible deniability about not having been there, yet still want to say something. Who knows.
The USG does not want plausible deniability about this. They actively recruit on elite engineering campuses over it. It is super fucking interesting work and candidates compete for the opportunity to do it. If you think otherwise, you're in a filter bubble.
>> If you think otherwise, you're ... [elided]
Yellow card.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Benefits include health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and eligibility for performance-based awards Paid time off??? Health insurance??? Retirement plans???? OMG this is incredible! What an offer! /s
A gov-backed retirement plan actually is nice. You don’t have to worry about losing your Chrysler pension because they went out of business.
Amusingly, there's actually a government agency that takes over pension plans from failed companies. PBGC.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> It's always easy to spot a person who has enclosed themselves in a political or ideological bubble. They're typically first to apply a label to a large group of people and then assume all the people with that label are the exact same.
Your recent posting history here includes calling the entire European Union a "non-contributing toddler" to the world. Hmm.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and no. I have hired people to work under me. Generally, if someone can pass the interview and do the job, I don't care that much about your views unless you are very outwardly with them. The only time I had to filter out a candidate was due to a quick check of his public social media where he was "enthusiastically" pro Palestine with questionable posts. That being said, having interviewed plenty of ex government…
> The only time I had to filter out a candidate was due to a quick check of his public social media where he was "enthusiastically" pro Palestine with questionable posts. Sounds like a place I wouldn't want to work (and filtering for the reverse stance would be equally problematic). Do you think things will work better if we have pro-Israel and pro-Palestine companies with the two groups never talking?
I would suspect that the previous poster means something along the lines of: The kind of posts that are so extreme that they're a significant reputational/PR risk to hire. No company wants to be flipping on the news and see their name associated with someone who's openly advocating for atrocities.
Or that create significant concern that they're unwilling to do their job responsibilities if it means working with/interacting with people who don't share their political views. More than a few people openly state things like that online as well.
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#197>What is the expected compensation for participants? Compensation varies based on experience level and agency placement. Annual salaries are expected to be in the approximate range of $150,000 to $200,000. Benefits include health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and eligibility for performance-based awards. >Tech Force will primarily recruit early-career technologists So "early-career" but they're going to…
Not to mention “…recruiting an elite corps of engineers to build…” while also “…participants will receive technical training…”
So “elite” engineers need technical training?
What am I missing here.
I have extensive experience with this kind of government nonsense, but usually it is kind of in the background, blather no one really takes serious because it’s just blowing smoke. But this seems so credibility destroying through its ridiculous contradictions and bombast.
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#198That's a nice idea, so nice in fact that it already existed as 18F until they closed it under the guise of efficiency earlier this year and are now starting over.
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#199Is this just US Digital Service V2? https://www.usds.gov/
Ever since USDS got renamed as DOGE, they've had trouble recruiting people. I suspect this move is maybe an effort to shed DOGE's negative image.
Textbook PR. If your reputation went to shit, just rebrand it.
See, for example, how the head of DOGE said "That wasn't a nazi salute, that was roman salute! It's a completely different thing."
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#200Is this just US Digital Service V2? https://www.usds.gov/
No, USDS was about modernizing the government's tech systems in general. This one is about jamming AI into shit: > Tech Force will be an elite group of ~1,000 technology specialists hired by agencies to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) implementation and solve the federal government's most critical technological challenges.
And apparently implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency using TrumpCoin.
> Backed by the White House, Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era – from administering critical financial infrastructure at the Treasury Department to advancing cutting-edge programs at the Department of Defense – and everything in between.
Also, surprised their AI reviewer allowed the use of DoD... I thought they identify as Dept of War now.