MicroWave2d ago

What was DOGE? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

https://lemmy.world/post/44588196

What was DOGE? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government - Lemmy.World

Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people If the mandate of DOGE was to “[modernise] federal technology and software to maximise governmental efficiency and productivity”, in the words of the executive order that launched the initiative on 20 January 2025, the reality was a strengthening of the state’s surveillance capacities. Over time, Musk had become convinced that the real bugs in the code were people, especially the non-white illegal immigrants whom he saw as pawns in a liberal scheme to corrupt democracy and beneficiaries of what he called “suicidal empathy”. He understood empathy itself in coding terms. It was an “exploit” or a software vulnerability against which the system architecture needed to be hardened.

Show threadsepi
Elon knows as much about government as he knows about people or computer programming.
Mar 22 at 2:57pmWeb
Show threada_non_monotonic_function2d ago
Or human love/affection.
Show threadXanthobilly2d ago
He knew which parts opposed him and shut them down.
Show threadteyrnon2d ago
He was a tool to thiel, to siphon government data to their private data banks. He is mentally, uh, challenged himself, musk.
Show threadRaiderkev1d ago

Thiel is a tool to Putin. The DOGE facade was nothing more than getting the FSB direct access to secure government systems.

This whistleblower noticed access from Russia with the correct login info minutes after they were created by DOGE. Big balls’ grandfather was a KGB agent. This was not a coincidence imo.

npr.org/…/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Show threadteyrnon1d ago

I don’t doubt it. But it’s hardly nothing more than, they are selling us out to more than just Putin. The thiel/yarvin set got a copy. I imagaine the president’s own businesses got a copy of all of that information, Russia as you say, Israel, and I couldn’t even hazard a guess as to whom else they made deals to share the information with in whole or part.

Democracy now this summer or fall had a guy at the labor department on that saw them exporting all the data in real time there too.

Show threadRaiderkev1d ago
Yeah, that’s the same guy from the article. I’m sure Saudi and Qatar are in as well since they have numerous financial ties. It’s fucked.
Show threadvaultdweller0131d ago
Some may call me an accelerationist for this statement, but this is why I’m hoping for total federal collapse and economic failure. Mostly because I can’t imagine a situation where the damage these pissants have done can be countered without it. Most of them are untouchable so long as the US exists and the global economic order remains unfractured and regardless they’ve already set us on course towards that inevitability in my opinion.
Show threadRaiderkev1d ago
Yes, every system has been compromised. There’s no way to know how many puppets have been installed at every level of government. The whole thing needs to collapse and start anew.