A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their agency and it is so much worse than I thought.

It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit.

They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every rule. They're all going through their own offline channels.

That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No trace back to the WH.

The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos in the name of powerless juniors who remain.

I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns.

It's a coup.

"the real-world use case for large language models is overwhelmingly to generate content for spamming"

Excellent article by Amy Castor

#GenAI #LLM #Crypto #Scam

https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/

Yes, this brings the CDC guidelines for COVID into line with guidelines for RSV and influenza.

It's not just that is COVID more severe. The guidelines for RSV and influenza are not right either. We need universal paid sick leave, not permission to return to work while still contagious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU0.jViR.n7R1fvDM_WEv&smid=url-share

Paramount kept their staff on hand to handle stressful conditions, surely kept lots of folks on-call to ensure the Superbowl could be streamed on their service, had record viewership numbers and then immediately laid off 800 of the people who helped give them that success the next day so that the executive leadership could pocket all the profits without sharing it with the labor force who built it.

Seriously. Eat the rich.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/paramount-global-layoffs-begin-ceo-bob-bakish-1235824028/

LOL Rupert Murdoch's resignation letter rails against "the elites."

Rupert Murdoch, the 96th richest man in the world, worth $17.4 billion.

The elites.

When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

An Incredible Introduction 🤩

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