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A pretty extensive article about what’s happening at the national labor relations board. The DOGE team came in, granted themselves access to all the files, turned off logs, copied several gigs of private data on who knows what, then left without telling anyone.

They have no official reason for this data and it breaks dozens of privacy laws. It’s sensitive enough to chill every security professional interviewed.

Oh and it’s all about getting this data into a centralized depot run by palantir Peter thiel

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago

The US is paying El Salvador money to hold these people. Acting like there is nothing either can do is about as boldface a lie as there is. They can literally do anything they want and have control of both sides of any contracts.

This is them saying “what are you going to do about it?” And what should happen is people need to keep the pressure on so Congress sides with the courts asap (and this guys’ Senator is flying there next week to see him personally).

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago

People have? The doge team have us Marshalls that let them in and push the staffers out of the way. It’s happened at the IRS, USAID, and others.

Here’s an agency which doge had no right to close still getting pushed out after blockading the office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/doge-us-marshals-usadf/

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

That’s an American not being recused by America. He’s had no due process. And unlike hostages held by the worst terrorists or oppressive regimes anywhere else in the world, they won’t even fight to get him back.

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Yep this headline is from today, Monday morning.

Some snippets from the article about how efficient things are now that DOGE have injected their code changes into production without testing.

Suddenly forced offline as they were taking claims, the staff members scribbled down clients’ information, then had to wait until later to load it into the computer, doubling or tripling the amount of time and work involved, the employee said.

In other instances, Managers or security guards improvised a solution after the online scheduling system failed, the employee said. They walked out to the reception area, wrote down numbers on paper slips and started handing them out to people waiting in line.

The network crashes appear to be caused by an expansion initiated by the Trump team of an existing contract with a credit-reporting agency that tracks names, addresses and other personal information to verify customers’ identities. The enhanced fraud checks are now done earlier in the claims process and have resulted in a boost to the volume of customers who must pass the checks.

EDIT: here’s an archive link. https://archive.is/FQfBu

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The famous documentary Ferris Bueller’s Day Off demonstrates why forty years later our leaders elected Tariff Man. (Classic comedy actually if you’ve never seen it)

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 months ago

Where is his suit? Does he not respect the office? /s

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Natalia Goncharova The Forest 1913

Oil on canvas.  130 x 97 cm

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

In 1913, the year the present “Rayonist landscape” entitled The Forest is dated, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov signed the Rayonist Manifesto.

This Russian avant-garde movement was defined by Camilla Gray as the style which “encompasses all existing styles and forms of the art of the past, as they, like life, are simply points of departure for a Rayonist perception and construction of a picture.”

According to this new aesthetic idea which, as the American historian specifies, departed from the concept of perception, both artists showed an interest in the nature of vision and began studying light as the indispensable source of our sensory appreciation of the world. Given that, in order for any object to be seen it must be illuminated, the Rayonists represented in painting the whole sequence of rays that allows us to see a particular scene. “We do not sense the object with our eye, as it is depicted conventionally in pictures and as a result of following this or that device, ” they stated in the Rayonist manifesto. “In fact, we do not sense the object as such. We perceive a sum of rays proceeding from a source of light; these are reflected from the object and enter our field of vision.” 

The Forest, also entitled Rayonist Landscape or Rayonist Perception, which was shown both in Mishen (Target), the exhibition organized by Larionov in Moscow in 1913 marking the new movement’s introduction to society, and in the solo exhibition of the painter’s work organised by the gallery owner K.I. Mikhailova at his Art Salon in Moscow that year, is an illustrative example of Goncharova’s interpretation of Rayonism.

(https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/goncharova-natalia)

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 108 points 3 months ago

Decades to build up expertise and infrastructure. Days to destroy it.

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago

Shortest answer is always money. The richest man got much richer and plans to get richer yet after this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/elon-musk-put-277-million-into-the-election-he-s-200-billion-richer-this-year/ar-AA1vTrEZ

Elon Musk’s net worth has climbed by more than $200 billion in 2024, a massive increase in the same year that the world’s richest person spent at least $277 million backing Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. 

The bulk of the increase, more than $170 billion, has come since Election Day.

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago

You can make a windows registry change to have Chrome let you keep using uBlock Origin, with the V2 manifest. It will buy you six more months, basically the enterprise support period.

There was a handy shortcut created by the Security Now podcast you can use as a one-click file to update the policy. The show notes also give a more detailed breakdown of what's going on.

The relevant section in the notes is page 10. The link to the file is page 12. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-995-notes.pdf

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 45 points 8 months ago

Do you know what was going on in the first half of the 1940s??

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 63 points 10 months ago

Pulled a Rittenhouse.

Something something didn’t think the leopards would eat HIS face!

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 46 points 10 months ago

I mean it writes itself

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From the signing of the kids lunch bill. I just feel like even the laziest version of this is pretty fun.

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 277 points 1 year ago

Remember when open ai was a nonprofit first and foremost, and we were supposed to trust they would make AI for good and not evil? Feels like it was only Thanksgiving…

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