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DOGE has closed IRS’s IT modernization office, which was funded by the IRA.
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
IRS to Close Modernization Office | Tax Notes
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April 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
DOGE has closed IRS’s IT modernization office, which was funded by the IRA.
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
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Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.
SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me.
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.
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Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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March 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of m...
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March 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.
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BREAKING: CDC Warns of Ongoing Measles Outbreak in U.S. as Travel Season Approaches 228 Cases, 2 Deaths Reported.
March 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
BREAKING: CDC Warns of Ongoing Measles Outbreak in U.S. as Travel Season Approaches 228 Cases, 2 Deaths Reported.
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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For years I’ve contrasted the way that US science allocates cognitive effort from the bottom up via individual scientists responding to career incentives with the way things were done in the Soviet Union, from the top down, by the Party setting rear b priorities.
I can’t do that anymore.
I can’t do that anymore.
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
For years I’ve contrasted the way that US science allocates cognitive effort from the bottom up via individual scientists responding to career incentives with the way things were done in the Soviet Union, from the top down, by the Party setting rear b priorities.
I can’t do that anymore.
I can’t do that anymore.
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Surveillance impacts all of us, no matter where we live or what we do. While some of us might be directly affected, others may simply want t...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Trying to understand all of the ins and outs of digital security can be overwhelming, but our team at EFF is here to help. With our security starter pack, you can take a few simple steps to improve your digital privacy.
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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
February 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
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What exactly did he do?? 🤷♀️
February 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What exactly did he do?? 🤷♀️
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"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK."
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...
Human case of avian flu detected in England
UK Health Security Agency News and Media
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January 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK."
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...