Wired has identified 6 young men helping Elon with his illegal coup inside our Office of Management and Budget (OMB), their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran
editing to add a photo of these weirdo children you can download and… print? put up around town? send to friends?
We cannot, we CANNOT, let Elon Musk put the US Treasury on blockchain
please join with others and find a way to fight back. Courage is contagious. Community beats chaos.
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@seachanger I'm sure they're up to some nefarious shit, what is "the blockchain", and I'm no fan of cryptocurrency... but what's generally wrong with blockchain technology and specifically wrong with applying it to public accounting?
@ahoyboyhoy @mikey @seachanger Mining itself isn't required, but nodes can be costly, and more nodes are better, because anyone with node majority can actually alter the blockchain.
The question becomes like with every instance like this, what problem is this solving that can't be solved more simply another way?
@aud @seachanger It helps to remember, that the "GOP" acquitted the orange career criminal twice, ignoring available evidence.
It helps to get loud for the voices, who are to defend democracy & our, the electorate's interests.
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I am an outsider still stunned at how fast things are moving in a very wrong direction. and hoping the German electorate takes a hint on February 23 to avoid electing fascists and their sympathisers.
That said, all this seems to me so plainly illegal on the face of it that it would be a matter for the the executive (police, prosecutor) and judiciary (courts of law) to intervene, because existing laws are broken. Congress, i. e. the legislator, would not need to be involved, I think. But that's just me, maybe I don't understand how the system works.
Because if people who are not "accountable public officials" are doing stuff in public offices, they have no business being there, let alone revoking access to IT systems, sending people on leave or dismantling infrastructure.
@hopfgeist @seachanger I also really hope the German electorate take the hint.
I am an outsider still stunned at how fast things are moving in a very wrong directionThey've been building up to this for a long time through both legal, grey, and illegal methods: blocking judge nominations & pushing nominations through to capture the supreme court, large scale buyouts of media to control information flow, bribes in the form of sweet sweet contracts to companies to structure things just so, etc. So it's moving fast because they've got all the dominoes setup, so to speak, and with the transfer of power they've started kicking them. We're seeing that process play out now. They learned a lot about what things in the federal government were law and what were simply "gentlemen's agreements" the last time and they're putting it to use more heavily now. Especially now that they're at least partially, if not fully, insulted against consequences by the supreme court. This does not mean that the courts can't be used to slow it down or stop it, though, even though no one may ever be punished for it.Every fascist movement recruits the young and the clueless...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/indoctrinating-youth
Musk is skilled at turning kids into Nazis too.
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-hitler-youth-turned-a-generation-of-kids-into-nazis
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/joining-hitler-youth
@Npars01 @seachanger The only preventative measure I've seen work is to build cross-identity relationships proactively, even in presence of miscommunications (and other social difficulties not causing bodily harm), to inoculate the youth against lies about the Other.
We need more folks like Deeyah Khan and Daryl Davis turning emotionally neglected members of privileged categories into allies—whether by deradicalization and counter-recruitment when necessary, or by simply cutting off the radicalization process early by befriending them, flaws and all, before they go that far. We need a lot fewer people blaming and shaming and contemptuously dismissing the suffering of every member of entire involuntary social categories for the effects of social structures centuries older than any of their members and beyond the substantive influence of any but the most extraordinarily powerful few.
We need a lot more acceptance that two different persons' suffering can be real and valid simultaneously, and that neither is rival to the other; we need a lot less hypocritical exceptionalism, as by accepting group A saying of group B what we would not accept group B saying of group A. Or, we can keep playing into divide and conquer, which got us both Trump regimes and their consequences.
We need a lot more people clearing exit routes, and a lot fewer blocking them. We need a lot more people making needed repairs, and lot fewer people plugging the pressure relief valve till the hot water heater explodes.
I guess this Gavin Kilger is the same Gaving Kilger working as "Special Advisor to the Director @ OPM" since January this year?
Special Advice my a*se.
@seachanger That is evident of their lack of technical knowledge it seems
Oof
@seachanger I've yet to see any article, story or such about a department that technically does not exist (DOGE), explain how Musk has any authority to do anything.
I understand Congress can't because they make laws, not enforce.
But, ffs, someone, somewhere, has to have the authority to stop this. Because I have a hard time believing our laws surrounding this are completely non-existent.
That would mean anyone, claiming authority, couldn't just do whatever they wanted.
People were so credulous of what social media and political speeches said about DOGE (e.g. it was going to be for mass-firing personnel) that they didn't read the Executive Order that set it up. I did.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/113868683313281530
Clearly, its power to hire people has been exercised. Also clearly, the people that it has hired are here to put in place a Presidentally-signed back-door into U.S. government I.T. systems under the guise of "upgrades".
Of course, the major things are the 2 emergencies, the declaration of an "invasion" by poor people from Central and South America, and the mobilization of the military. But there are a *lot* of (comparatively!) minor things. One of them is that the new Department of Dodgy Affairs has no power to review personnel and is in fact only empowered to look at software and IT systems. Indeed, it actually requires hiring *more* government personnel. https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ #USPolitics #DonaldJTrump
It's not both. Ironically, the firings have been nothing to do with DOGE.
And the indication is right there in the Executive Order. As I said, it seems that not many people have actually read it. Almost all of it is directly and solely about every U.S. government agency (bar 1) hiring these "special government assistants" for I.T. systems and putting them on the government payroll at Agency Head level.
The reality is that Hollywood has misled everyone for 50 years with its tales of subverting classified computer systems with "sleeper agents", decades of planning, and camps of U.S.S.R. orphans.
It takes an octogenarian POTUS, a group of home-grown recent university graduate mercenaries, one Executive Order, the old "We're here to upgrade the software ." trick, and about a fortnight.
The full nature of the problem doesn't make itself apparent until one realizes that the U.S. government's attack surface for the malicious has just become whatever can influence a named 19-year-old/20-something male postgraduate with unfettered access and *proven ability* — reported to the world by CNN, no less! — to bypass security systems and personnel.
The other EOs aren't about DOGE, and don't giving mass-firing power to DOGE. The idea that DOGE is involved in this is a useful smokescreen, but isn't true.
The firings and personnel reviews of SES career officials, BGN members, and inspectors general are not being done by DOGE. The packing of the BGN with yes-men and the SES career officials firings are to be enacted by Agency Heads, for example.
The packing of the BGN with yes-men had just 7 days to happen, by the way, so we should know what came of it by now.
https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/
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@seachanger Musk has probably chosen these guys because they are enthralled and expendable. If the people show up with pitchforks and torches they'll be easy targets while those in charge escape. To really solve the problem you have to aim higher. These are the names you need to know and remember:
"OPM confirmed to me that Amanda Scales, who used to work for Musk’s AI company xAI, is now chief of staff at OPM. Brian Bjelde, whose Linkedin profile still lists him as a SpaceX employee, is now a senior director, and so is Anthony Armstrong, a banker who worked with Musk to take over Twitter."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-federal-government-what-matters/index.html
I know that Coristine has an X account "BigBalls" 🤪
Do the others have similar account names oozing masculine energy and penis size?
@seachanger @cstross And to think people think the Canadians are being "too much" with the whole Iron Ring thing ,and Oregon is being "over the top" by prosecuting people for practicing engineering without qualifications, and the people saying that we need engineering ethics courses and wider context courses for new engineers as standard are "gatekeeping".
Lets just call them the Hitler Youth and be done with it.
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