The party that railed big tech and big government is in fact their biggest fan.
It doesn’t matter what the GOP claims, they don’t have any ideology or ideas that you can count on.
Given sufficient criminal energy to do so, everything can and will be weaponized.
DOGE was just the first step suitably preparing the terrain for further scrutiny.
And once the work is completed, it will never go away again, regardless of the government's political inclinations.
I could not post it but see this article and how well it aged : https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...
How long until Palantir gets a contract to do the same work for Russia?
It boggles my mind that this doesn't already exist.
Not great, Bob!
Everything is going smoothly
Why is this flagged? Seems to fit the submission criterion of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" and "gratifies intellectual curiosity" pretty cleanly... e.g. government technology contracts and data analysis, privacy and surveillance, a major tech company and its business practices, the intersection of technology and public policy, etc.
This administration might be one of the better examples of the importance of knowing when to ask, “should I do something” vs “can I do something”. And it seems like a lot of the guardrails / historically unwritten rules, that have recently gone the way of the dodo, helped ensure the “should” was considered along with the “can”.
Interesting times to live in