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Video: Opinion | What Trump’s Magic Math Costs You

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010887197/what-trumps-magic-math-costs-you.html?smid%3Dnytcore-ios-share

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Requirements for a performance improvement plan

My boss gave me a performance improvement plan this past Friday. This does not seem like a valid performance improvement plan for a number of reasons. I am going to file another ORM complaint against him tomorrow (Monday) for retaliation, harassment and hostile work environment. I already have one ORM complaint and am waiting for an investigator to be assigned for the formal investigation. My question is where do I get the requirements that are needed for a performance improvement plan? I am asking because I am planning on contacting HR who apparently approved it and then my congressman to see if an investigation can be done on why HR is apparently approving performance improvement plans that do not follow the guidelines. I was planning on going through this plan and detailing why each instance is not within the regulations for my congressman and also sending it to HR. I have found handbook 5013 but can’t seem to find the specific requirements such as who need to approve it, how it is supposed to be formatted, etc

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Is this real? If so…they must have forgotten about our pay raises. Or lack of

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Question on Internal Transfer Timeline

Currently trying to transfer DAF -> DAF and the process has been super slow. Was supposed to leave over a year ago but bc of hiring freeze, doge, etc. it couldn’t happen. This January, they reached out and said they were able to hire now so we started the process over again in Jan/Feb.Since then, the process has been going at a snail’s pace. I negotiated for a relocation incentive and signed the offer letter / incentive on the tentative / intent to hire. Literally almost a month later I had to re-sign because they put the wrong percentage in the relocation incentive (same dollar amount). Another month later and I had to sign the offer letter again because they had to include a statement that said “salary determined by HR” or something. Another 3 weeks / month passes and they needed me to send my most recent performance review and address to justify the relocation incentive, this was 2-3 weeks ago and I haven’t heard anything since (going to reach out this week for an update).Is this timeline normal for an internal transfer? It seems like it was faster for me to get hired on initially several years ago than it is to transfer now.

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National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading the effort to wrangle hyper-advanced AI. Some worry he’s not up to the task.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/16/sean-cairncross-ai-mythos-expertise-00925336

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#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

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#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

Sondern auch #Vance, #Musk, #Thiel, #Zuckerberg, #Brin, #Bezos, #Hegseth, #Patel, #Ellison und noch ein paar Stunden so weiter.

Wie #Wolkenkuckucksheim kann 1 sein?

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/wiese-spd-usa-sind-nicht-nur-trump-108.html

Im Zuge des Prozesses zwischen #Musk und #Altman wurde ein Teil der Kommunikation zwischen den beiden veröffentlicht, Mails, Chats, Tagebucheinträge, die einen Einblick geben in eine besonders männliche Form von Hybris und das wackelige Verständnis von Verantwortung, das die Entwicklung von KI, wie sie im Silicon Valley vorangetrieben wird, bis heute prägt. Was besonders bedauerlich ist, weil es – vor allem nach eigener Darstellung – um das Schicksal der Menschheit geht

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May 17, 2026 - r/fednews Daily Discussion Thread

Have anything you want to talk about that doesn't quite warrant its own thread or currently being discussed in a megathread? Post it here!In an effort to effectively manage the amount of information being posted, please keep anything speculative or considered repetitive within this discussion thread.

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