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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

mvf4z7 wrote: post #546
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #510

I find it shockingly absurd how the All-In podcast hosts blindly support everything one of their own does. It’s obvious they treat Musk like a god. In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure.

Could not agree more. The All In guys stopped engaging in thought provoking and critical conversations a long time ago. And holy hell, Jason Calacanis is the biggest weasel on the podcast. At least the other turds own who they are, while Jason will be whatever gets him access to the “in crowd”.

I've seen so many personalities "shift" over this decade. I guess big platforms monetized outrage better, so what better way to generate outrage than pick up conservative talking points.

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

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Post by booleandilemma »

torben-friis wrote: post #524
impulser_ wrote: post #499

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The Com is just a general term for crime communities on the Internet. Its not a specific group. The Com includes groups that commit crimes stretching from cybercrime to literally the worst crimes you can think of and the vast majority of this is done on Discord and Telegram. You can go down a really dark rabbit hole if you really dig deep into some of these groups within The Com. This is where the worst of the worst…

To what degree is this common knowledge? After 20 years of being highly online I'm surprised to be so blindsided. Not that I work in security or anything.

I find it amusing that it popped up in this political context too. It feels very FUD-y.

Oh no, Musk hired someone from "The Com"!

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

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Post by pxmpxm »

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #391
alecco wrote: post #281

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Did everybody already forget only a month ago it was revealed Chinese hackers had access to US Treasury computers including US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen 's own? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/chinese-h... ( https://archive.ph/xeEaO ) (January 16, 2025)

I find it strange that neither activists nor politicians nor journalists cared about that enough to make it a continuous news cycle. There was also no outrage about various security breaches that exposed personal information for 100 million Americans , like the Change Healthcare breach. The reaction to alleged violation of privacy here seems inconsistent and disproportionate, and I wonder why?

It's pretty obvious that people opposing the goals of DOGE are pushing this story, same way they were pushing the earlier "doxxing" of the young engineers working for DOGE or the Elon nazi zieg idiocy.

Say what you will, but Musk has a track record of executing well at preposterous speed, so for legacy players/media this sorta of PR campaign is about the most they can muster.

At the end of the day thought, we'll all have to compare real word results versus those PR narratives and I am positive i know which way that will swing. You just can't PR bullshit you way out something like a 250ton piece of stainless sticking a landing.

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Post by simoncion »

Psillisp wrote: post #636
b8 wrote: post #469

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Well, I mean China already pwned opm.gov and got SF-86 on all fed employees a few years ago. The FBI gives people who have clearances on how adversaries will attempt to get information and what to do. Mainly it's just alerting the employers security office, and former feds get an email to reach out to for questions/concerns post employment. The security clearance process is broken and mostly BS. The head of DCSA and…

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Eh? PP's commentary is spot on. I used to do defense contracting. The primary things the interviewer is looking for are "How vulnerable to blackmail are you?" and (relatedly) "How forthcoming are you about the illegal or borderline legal things you've done in the past, and are you willing to (or have you already) stopped doing them?".

Felonies shouldn't disqualify you from employment for the rest of your life, and neither should association with the seedy underbelly of society.

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

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Post by justinbaker84 »

dayvid wrote: post #670
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #510

I find it shockingly absurd how the All-In podcast hosts blindly support everything one of their own does. It’s obvious they treat Musk like a god. In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure.

All-In declined quickly after the pandemic when they realized the value of their platform. They use it now to only milk their investments or push political agendas to milk their investments.

I have been thinking the same thing. The only other thing they do is take positions they think will increase their popularity with their audience.

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Post by [deleted] »

jawiggins wrote: post #566
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #510

I find it shockingly absurd how the All-In podcast hosts blindly support everything one of their own does. It’s obvious they treat Musk like a god. In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure.

One of the most frustrating parts of that podcast is that they often just read the headlines of news events and react, making it clear that they haven't bothered to read any level of detail about the event. I'll also give honorable mentions to some of their most outrageous takes: 1. Friedberg predicting that NYT and CNN would be replaced by blockchain based news reporting. 2. Chamath predicting the Ukraine/Russia ten…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Kinrany wrote: post #351
lenerdenator wrote: post #265

All I can think of when I hear about DOGE is Robert McNamara's Department of Defense, where the "Whiz Kids" from industry and academia were supposed to magically fix all sorts of problems with the military's bureaucracy. After all, they went to the right schools, and really, how hard could war-making be? We lost in Vietnam and there are people being born there with birth defects from Operation Ranch Hand to this day…

> After all, they went to the right school The selection process here appears to have been the opposite of traditional credentialism

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Post by TacticalCoder »

1shooner wrote: post #663
TacticalCoder wrote: post #385

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> The question no one asking is why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending? If it's working, why would it matter? The most curious thing in all these discussions is that the elephant in the room is never addressed: they already found on hundreds of billions of pure fraud and funding for extremely dubious endeavors. But nobody t…

Have the people telling you these things put any effort into making them independently verifiable? That would be an important early step in any kind of transparency effort. People are not shooting the messenger. The messenger has no credibility, and no demonstrated interest in earning it as long as they can hold power otherwise.

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Post by Larrikin »

kernal wrote: post #659
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #510

I find it shockingly absurd how the All-In podcast hosts blindly support everything one of their own does. It’s obvious they treat Musk like a god. In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure.

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What are their leftist ideas?

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

Dalewyn wrote: post #623
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #510

I find it shockingly absurd how the All-In podcast hosts blindly support everything one of their own does. It’s obvious they treat Musk like a god. In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure.

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>I want shit done already; I voted for this.

None of us voted for him. That's part of the issue. He wasn't approved by congress, he wasn't given clearance by the government. Good odds are that you in that same position (and maybe same mindset) would do much better.

>Raze it all to the ground and salt the dirt using the tears of the whiners

he's going to raze it to the ground using the blood of all of us. let's not fall into identity politics over this. These for federal institutions that every citizen relies on.

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