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  1. WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST H1-B VISA HOLDERS YOU RACIST!
  2. Those of you along/near South Lamar, is this you? Digging the knife in the belt, the machete in the re-usable shopping bag, the velcro shoes, the BB gun, the fighting gloves. And here he is 5 years ago
  3. Musk's team is treating the government like one big fucking startup, and wants to share government data with AI. https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/ 404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.” Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate with sensitive systems like social security “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud,” which employees identified on the meeting as “an illegal task.” Shedd, who is a former Tesla engineer, said the government should “try to get consent,” regarding login.gov changes but that “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” WIRED and the New York Times previously reported on aspects of the meeting. 404 Media has now obtained audio of the full meeting and quotes it extensively below. Shedd told TTS workers that the administration would need help making radical changes to various government systems: “Things are going to get intense,” he said. These potential changes, he said, would include things like creating “AI coding agents” that would write government software for many different agencies and would be trained in part on existing government contracts, larger scale automations of government, and, critically, changes to Login.gov. “Just like a fun one that we've been thinking through with Login, specifically in TTS is, as most of you know, Login can't access government information on individuals. And so there's no connection that Login has with social security or any other government system, even though we're part of the government,” Shedd said. “And so part of one of the things to work through is how do we make it so that those agencies that has that information of very secure APIs that can be leveraged by login to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud?” “I'm not saying that this is an easy task, but it is a task that's worth trying to pursue and one that only we can do as an internal team, right? We can't bring a third party in, hire them and have them work on a project like this. It has to be an internal technology team that works on this,” Shedd continued.
  4. Y'all are circle-jerking around Anastasia just as he wants, and meanwhile this shit is going on - one of Musk's 25 year-old employees with no government or economic/financial system experience has basically full privileges to systems that handle 1/5 of the US economy. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED. Two of those sources say that Elez’s privileges include the ability not just to read but to write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS). Housed on a secure mainframe, these systems control, on a granular level, government payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy. Despite reporting that suggests that Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force has access to these Treasury systems on a “read-only” level, sources say Elez, who has visited a Kansas City office housing BFS systems, has many administrator-level privileges. Typically, those admin privileges could give someone the power to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to. “You could do anything with these privileges,” says one source with knowledge of the system, who adds that they cannot conceive of a reason that anyone would need them for purposes of simply hunting down fraudulent payments or analyzing disbursement flow. "Technically I don't see why this couldn't happen," a federal IT worker tells WIRED in a phone call late on Monday night, referring to the possibility of a DOGE employee being granted elevated access to a government server. "If you would have asked me a week ago, I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows." A source says they are concerned that data could be passed from secure systems to DOGE operatives within the General Services Administration. WIRED reporting has shown that Elon Musk’s associates—including Nicole Hollander, who slept in Twitter’s officesas Musk acquired the company, and Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who now runs a GSA agency, along with a host of extremely young and inexperienced engineers—have infiltrated the GSA and have attempted to use White House security credentials to gain access to GSA tech, something experts have said is highly unusual and poses a huge security risk. Elez, according to public databases and other records reviewed by WIRED, is a 25-year-old who graduated Rutgers University in 2021 and subsequently worked at SpaceX, Musk’s space company, where he focused on vehicle telemetry, starship software, and satellite software. Elez then joined X, Musk’s social media company, where he worked on search AI. Public Github repositories show years of software development, with a particular interest in distributed systems, recommendation engines, and machine learning. He does not appear to have prior government experience.
  5. Then he’s definitely dead.
  6. I can vouch for your wife being real.
  7. Hasbro two years ago: Do a lot of players play as half-orcs or even orcs, even though full orcs are classified as monsters? DnD players: Oh yeah. All the time, we have people who want to play as orcs since they are humanoids, and we create storylines and back stories and everything, and we even gin up campaigns where everybody in a party plays as an orc. We even create entire orc towns and villages with economic systems, with orcs working together and doing dungeon runs and stuff we love orcs. Fast-forward to 2025 Hasbro: Okay, cool, we said 10 years ago in some of the publications that orcs aren’t inherently evil and had free will, and a lot of you ran with that, so now we’ve decided to take orcs and Drow out of the monster manual and if you want them to still be monsters, you can, just use the expanded generic stat blocks in the monster manual. We instead put them on par with humans, dwarves, and elves, so DMs have 40+ humanoid stat blocks to use with them instead of the old three orc-specific statblocks DMs used to have to use. Heck, a few versions back, we started giving you orc character sheets anyways. You DMs can now have an easier time creating Orc warriors and thieves and assassins and dozens of other things and have them appear in civilized areas with the other races. Your human, dwarf, and elvish characters can even journey into orc settlements and do stuff there without having to battle everything. The monster manual was just a book of stats and suggestions anyways, so this should make it easier on you DMs. W e are just taking something we did years ago and pretending like it’s new, just they aren’t in the monster manual anymore. DnD players: But what are we gonna hunt now?
  8. Do you like your job at the call center? Refresh Reset
  9. It really is a national security issue if it helps even a few tens of thousand American farmers have the difference between a good year and a bad year, and keeps them in production and not shutting down and getting out of the farming business, so that down the road, if the shit hits the fan, we've got those farmers still chugging along that can help keep our food supplies going. For instance, this stuff is what USAID does and it helps use keep our agriculture chugging along. https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2024/04/18/usda-usaid-deploy-1-billion-emergency-food-assistance The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will deploy $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funding to purchase U.S.-grown commodities to provide emergency food assistance to people in need throughout the world, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced today. “America’s farmers are the most productive and efficient in the world, and we rely on them to supply safe and nutritious food not only to our nation, but to the global community,” Secretary Vilsack said. “With many millions of people in dire need worldwide, the U.S. agricultural sector is well positioned to provide lifesaving food assistance. The United States produces more commodities than are consumed, and therefore has the opportunity to partner with USAID and extend this food to those in our global community who are struggling.” “During this time of staggering global hunger, America is extending a hand to hungry communities around the world – and American farmers are crucial to that effort,” said Administrator Power. “USAID is honored to collaborate with USDA to purchase, ship and distribute our surplus food supplies to people in urgent need across the globe.” In October 2023, USDA stated its intention to bolster efforts to combat global hunger by purchasing U.S.-grown commodities and working with USAID, the lead federal coordinator for disaster assistance, to ensure those commodities reach people in need around the world. An initial tranche of approximately $950 million will support the purchase, shipment and distribution of U.S. wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans – commodities that align with traditional USAID international food assistance programming. USAID will determine where the available commodities will be most appropriate for programming without disrupting local markets. USDA will purchase the commodities and transfer them to USAID for distribution.
  10. Yeah, for somebody who is some big on space, he seems to get really shy when asked why he doesn't take a trip into orbit on one of his own rockets. Almost as if it's a facade.
  11. I love that they are going with the Jack Kirby vibes. Really love that. Glad they are playing with design, even if this F4 is from a different universe.
  12. I honestly think the USAID stuff is personal for him. Think about if you grew up in a certain environment that you were mostly happy in, then something changed it fundamentally., and then decades later you got the chance to dismantle something that was a part of helping to fundamentally change the environment you grew up in, no matter how small it is (such as USAID in this case). It's like the Gen Xers in Russia who have a fondness for the Soviet Union, because in their minds things were somehow better (ignoring all of the other problems). They remember the good times, and right now a lot of them are faced with a "a big chunk of the world hates us, so fuck it, let's really give them a reason to hate us!". People get nostalgic when they get into their 40s and 50s.
  13. There was an article in the Followers of Christ thread in DT about it, or maybe I read it on another side, but we've got this cultural problem now where...for lack of a better phrase, "fuck you pay me" has taken hold. It's not even racial or political, and part of it is driven by social media, and it's especially odd given how so many think we are a "Christian nation" but we don't mind seeing other Americans suffer as long as we are okay. And it's being used against us - witness Leon trying to dismantle an agency that literally A) buys food from American farmers and goods from American companies that would otherwise not be produced or even rot (and by keeping those farmers going, it contributes to our national security) and B) shipping it overseas where it buys us some goodwill (good for American business), but also can help stabilize countries and help slow down refugee crisis (that could affect us here when we talk about immigration). Musk doesn't understand any of that. He doesn't understand that helping stabilize countries around the world is good for America and good for American business (not just our farmers). We have the military we have so that our companies can do business around the world. We have the aid programs that we have so that we can help stabilize countries and regions and keep their folks from trying to come here while also creating markets for our companies. It's like him wanting to take over Treasury payments - he doesn't understand why all of that is funneled through the government and not through a fucking app made by a private company, and he doesn't understand why so many people are getting Social Security payments every month and Medicare reimbursements. Or him wanting to abolish the Department of Education and public schools in general - he grew up a rich kid and sends his kids to private school, and he doesn't understand why everybody else doesn't do that. So for him I don't even know if he understands that Americans will suffer from the changes he is making, because he thinks everybody should be doing what he's doing.
  14. From that article https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ The 19 year old The coup has l ready happened. Musk’s people have the keys to the government. The President Musk memes aren’t memes, they are more true than people realize.
  15. Go to the West Coast. Almost 50% of people in Vancouver were born outside of Canada. It’s the kind of place that would make Musk shit his pants over them losing their culture to outsiders, but it’s a decent melting pot from the few times we visited my in-laws there. Canada is not the Trailer Park Boys. Well, parts are, but they sure as fuck couldn’t afford to live in the nice areas.
  16. There is also noise about banning it nationally somehow, and that’s the fucking bat signal for /r/DataHoarders to get to work and download every version they can find and post it aorund the internet.
  17. Sorry, I’ll put him on ignore as well.
  18. I don’t really like to make fun of the mentally ill for being mentally ill, except maybe OU fans, but people like him make it so easy when they fabricate conspiracy theories out of the dumbest shit
  19. Are Denmark and Canada preventing us from sailing the Arctic seas? Is there a reason to even talk about tariffs with them?
  20. GRU, there is absolutely nothing that justifies us making a move on Greenland. Hell, Denmark sent troops to Afghanistan with us after 9/11, and their troops were with us inAfghanistan from 2002 - 2021, longer than many other countries, and far longer than they needed to. If you’d fucking do your own research, you’d understand that the loudest voices pushing for us to move on Greenland all need lots of natural resources to make more money. But you types not only hate the free market, you don’t believe in doing your own research. If you did your own research, you’d wonder why Greenland is so important now to even talk about taking it, versus the first time around, and then a lightbulb would click over your head that “oh yeah the tech bros are investing heavily in AI and batteries and need to mine the shit out of Greenland”. But don’t worry, I’m sure tariffs against Denmark are coming.
  21. State of Texas bans it from government devices, along with some Chinese social media stuff. Private citizens can still access it, of course. There are rumblings elsewhere that they are going to try and block it for everybody, but also that there is resistance and Constitutional issues. https://m10news.com/texas-becomes-first-state-to-ban-chinese-ai-app-deepseek-and-social-media-platform-rednote/
  22. Based on how Canada reacted, and their move towards replacing American trade with European and Asian trade, it’s not just inflation, it’ll be job losses.
  23. Greenland is about making tech and mining companies more money with Greenland’s resources and you know this is not about our national security GRU. No country is fucking invading the US. GRU, I don’t know what it is about you types, but you hate the free market. Enough money would probably get Denmark to open up more resource extraction, and if you types cared about the Panama Canal so much, you’d push American companies to throw money at it like the Chinese did.But no, rather than let the free market do its thing, you’d rather try and use our military or economic power to have our way with small countries. If we did what people like you wanted, we’d be no different than the fucking Russians wanting to take Ukraine’s natural resources.
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