RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420

I would never travel to a country that required this of me unless it was absolutely necessary.

I can’t blame anyone for making the same decision once this comes to pass.

(And it’s inevitable. Even if this particular version doesn’t happen, it’ll happen. We’ve been heading down this road for a while.)

Today, we have to talk about Tim Cook. The Apple CEO is getting the crap knocked out of him for attending the Melania premiere at the White House on Saturday night — in a tux no less — as Alex Pretti was laying cold in the morgue in Minneapolis. It was about as tone deaf as it gets, especially coming after he also prostrated himself to Trump with that gold statue move. But that was merely obsequious in comparison to this, especially when he posed with well known Hollywood cretin Brett Rattner.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@karaswisher/post/DT8e6Yukpcb

Politico writes: "Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers."

"Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.

"Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time."

Kind of makes you wonder about the rest of the departments where DOGE had access.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245?cid=apn

I spend a lot of time thinking about LLMs, AGI & white collar work.

LLMs are a mirage on the path to AGI because they look like they can do intellectual work but are too buggy.

An LLM is like having an overconfident intern with infinite capacity for work. The mistake is thinking you can replace experienced employees with it but it’s a force multiplier if well supervised.

If it happens, AGI will be like an experienced coworker with infinite capacity. At that point, we will all need new jobs.

The myth: LLMs can replace experts.

The reality: LLMs can create a decent first draft that can then be reviewed by an expert.

Cheap, fast and good. Pick two.