Summary
Elon Musk’s email illegally demanding federal employees report their weekly tasks or face “resignation" sparked immediate backlash.
FBI Director Kash Patel instructed staff to ignore it, citing internal review procedures. The State Department and DOJ also advised employees against responding, fearing ethical violations.
The email, reaching millions, including air traffic controllers, triggered widespread confusion and resistance.
Senator Tina Smith criticized Musk’s “d*** boss move.”
The incident highlights a potential power struggle within the Trump administration, questioning Musk’s authority.
Oh they’re just going to shovel all the responses into an LLM, ask it who they should fire, and then blindly trust it
Probably the most sobering part. This is exactly what they’re doing, as Muskrat is too dumb to understand how they work (and don’t.) Meanwhile, the 19 year old kids accessing old COBOL systems are trusting hallucinating AIs to access them, but since the kids don’t actually have the knowledge and wisdom of how COBOL works, they’ll blindly trust the hallucinations.
Today I learned…
I also imagine some government worker auditing an oil rig or an undercover cia agent - they can’t fucking write letters “from their offices”