The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism
The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism | Thomas Anthony Durkin and Bernard Harcourt
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33291000
Trump's role model isn't McCarthy. It's a certain failed painter from Austria.
With a smidge of Saudi Arabia thrown in.
Dash of Maos's cultural revolution
Yeah. I just read a bunch of teenage dumbasses are going to rewrite 60 million lines of Cobol code in "months". So definitely more than a smidge: telling some in the younger generation that they are magical beings that just understand everything better than anyone that came before stinks to high heaven of cultural revolution trash.
I wonder what their little red book will be? The Shart of the Deal?
The way you describe it, it sounds more like Dianetics.
I have serious doubts about that kind of timeline, most especially for such a critical system (I write software for a living; no way in hell would I give a timeline of "months" for something like this, but then I have years and years of experience, while Dunning-Kruger is running rampant in our government right now - giving teenagers the keys to the kingdom and constantly praising them for what prodigies they are is going to not end well).
But since our version of Idiocracy includes such Hollywood tropes like "young people just know tech", we are all consigned to this....I'm sure the average magoff is going to proclaim what a "genius" fElon and his techbois are all during the process, too.
Given fElon's many failed delivery timelines on things related to his companies, I expect more of the same here. Sadly, he's going to ruin a lot of people's lives in the process...at least with his bullshit companies, no one has to opt in to that. In this case, he's broken into our government and he's going to impact millions who want no part in his bullshit or his stupid crew of teenage dumbasses. And I bet anything they try to use "AI" to do most of this work.
According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to "rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months." This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine regulations dealing with Social Security, it's no wonder that the codebase is this large. What is in question though is whether a small team can rewrite this code "in months." After all, what could possibly go wrong?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-codebase-in-months
It's all part of the same massive con.
It's a bunch of independent cons but they all use the same methods.
New Slogan be like: 没有共产党 If it weren't for MAGA, 没有新中国 There would be no New America
(The crossed out phrase is a common propaganda thing that was taught in mao era China meaning: "If it weren't for the CCP, there would not be a 'New China'... which is BS lol".)
New news is that pro-Israel elements aided in identifying and tracking these students.
So the failed Austrian painter's heinous policies are now supported by the people they were first used against. What's next? Jewish oven operators?
Next? This is already happening in Gaza right now.
