We live in the dumbest timeline (and possibly the most dangerous).

The United States Department of Health and Human Services just informed employees they need not respond to the email demanding they share their weekly accomplishments. However, if they do respond, HHS tells them “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors.”

@augieray

well this is refreshing af 👍

@augieray
"Today I went to the rest room 3 times, Had lunch(soup), and went home."
Sincerely,
The American People
@augieray That's how you should treat EVERY email.
@augieray well isn't that the goddess' own truth now…

Dear Officials,

My weekly accomplishments:

Analyzed Musk's tweets for secret volcano lair codes. Found only 3AM meme addiction.

Built algorithm to determine if rockets = distraction from tunnel network.

Discovered he blinks "HELLO" in Morse code during interviews.

Nearly blew cover at Tesla club asking about submarine capabilities.

Started "Musk Conspiracy: Ep.1" report (16 sequels pending).

Democracy hangs in balance. Next week: investigating satellite mind control.

Vigilantly yours,

@augieray Buddy just forwarded this to me - easily exceeds my character limit for Mastodon.

CC - @briankrebs

https://chatgpt.com/share/67bd1ba5-f540-800a-96ea-56175f1197ff

Beginning snippet...

i am a federal employee. i received a request from emperor Elon Musk to justify my existence. can you give me a long-winded response that makes what i do sound very important? my goal is to oversaturate the people charged with analyzing this data.

ChatGPT said:

Of course! Here's a long-winded, jargon-heavy response designed to sound extremely important while overwhelming the reader with complexity:

ChatGPT - New chat

Shared via ChatGPT

ChatGPT

@augieray

I read the original 'five things you did last week' e-mail which has been making the rounds, and ye gods, it pinged my phishing filter but good. Forward to IT and delete, oh federal employees: reacting otherwise will just draw attention.

(Misspelling, poor grammar, sense of urgency, sent to so many recipients, requesting potential sensitive information... stuff like this is why we even have anti-phishing courses at any respectable institution.)

@theogrin @augieray I work for a sensitive government agency here in Germany, and get such mails quite often, as part of phishing awareness training. It's silly I know, but if I don't report them, I'm in trouble.
@augieray one malign foreign actor in particular, and his henchmuppets
@augieray
I'm waiting for the first leaked internal memo from an European intelligence agency that says that we must assume that any information sent to our US counterparts is handed over to Russia.
@joakimfors
@augieray This is the very tip of the iceberg. How much longer will you remain passive? Wait too long and this process will shit you & millions like you painfully & inefficiently into anonymous mass graves.
...Because that's how this shit works in the real world, when there isn't some greater proximate military power to compel Geneva adherence.
But please do carry on blogging it to death. That'll slay the rabid beast. It's worked so well elsewhere, hadn't it?
@augieray it's a pretty good description of Elon I think