Federal software contractor Dan Hon (who’s worked with HHS, Head Start, Medicaid/Medicare, DOD) has a great & informative thread about Musk’s seizure of the government’s computing systems.
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Thank you for flagging this thread. It's one of the best I've seen at explaining how what we're seeing is a show of force, not just a backdoor entry into the system. And it's as chilling as I thought it would be to understand it better.
Hon wrote this up for the MIT Technology Review: From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem.
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