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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

THE INSIDE STORY:

The New York Times regrets the error.

World Wide Web cern.ch

The first website is still on the web, for now.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

Federal agencies are scrubbing social media and removing posts, many with public comments on them. This violates the First Amendment. Those who have had comments deleted may have legal cause to sue the agency AND the employee that removed the posts.

The destruction on the federal level will not benefit our nation. 18F was a model of innovation and efficiency.

To observe the one day boycott, I did not buy a Tesla.

U.S. weighs destroying $500 million in stockpiled covid tests The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and has been considering destroying 160 million tests.

SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Guardrails? What guardrails?

Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.

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I will say it again. The DOGE website is so insecure it should be legally designated an incel.

Breaking "the government" and replacing the "deep state" civil servants with AI bots programmed by 20-something right wing Elon fanboys may sound like a great idea until it's time to eat an egg or a chicken sandwich without fear of getting sick, or deal with a hurricane or get on an airplane.

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA Lee esta historia en español aquí

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Hi Ron! Awesome work.

China be like TikTok didn’t work so here’s DeepSeek.

Two men talking. One says “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

I am reminded of this scene.

I’m calling it the Gulf of Denali.

Sony to End Blu-ray Disc Media Production, Marking the End of an Era for Optical Media | Cord Cutters News Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs in February 2025, bringing an end to the format’s nearly two-decade run. This decision marks a significant milestone in the decline of...

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Unique smoke emissions from wildland-urban interface fires - Climate Program Office When fires burn urban materials and biomass at the wildland-urban interface, unique smoke and pollutants form to impact both air quality and climate.

Two recently published studies offer detailed insights into how fires in wildland-urban interface areas generate complex, long-lasting emissions that contribute to climate warming and public health risks

Read more: cpo.noaa.gov/unique-smoke...

I started watching the original Salem’s Lot, but the it vanished from Max. Only the remake is available.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

This is just...supervillain behavior. I don't have the words for it.

and turning off my news app notifications. democracy dies in notifications.

I turned on breaking news notifications for both Washington Post and New York Times. I think that was a mistake. #notificationnation

And now.

YouTube video by Todd Vaziri Every Nazi Punch from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Mood youtu.be/47nkHeMGsuo?...

So, has someone saved all the climate data and websites from the feds? #askingforanation