• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    They let essentially college students feeding questions to LLM access data they never should have had access to and then let them decide the details of cutting at the broad direction not to save money but cut the things that the administration just didn’t like, without regard for law.

    Ultimately resulting in no significant savings, lots of good work being undone to the point of people dying for lack of aid.

    In theory, a well experienced group operating within the confines of law to identify inefficiency with how the mission is accomplished might be good. DOGE was not this.

    The biggest and most obvious clue, it was all Musk wanting to backronym something to DOGE. Nothing good comes out of musk trying to so something like a 14 year old kid would.

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        4 days ago

        I’d like you to think for just a few minutes. See if you can’t come up with some kind of government spending that should be kept secret. Take your time and really think.

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        4 days ago

        And how do you fucking think DOGE was uncovering “secrets” by stealing social security data? What fucking secrets could a random grandmother with diabetes have that you’d want?

        Musk wanted it for his data farms. What is anyone else supposed to have gotten from it?

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        4 days ago

        The spending was not secret, but individual citizens’ personal information was also scrutinized, which should not be considered wide open.