Worth noting that anyone can send an email to hr(at) opm(dot)gov to let them know what you did last week...
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Oh, an email from outside the department demanding confidential reports?
Marks as spam
Their IT department should filter whatever domain is used for elon stuff. No outgoing or incoming mails from dumbasselon.wtf or whatever they use. Why is this not done already?
DOGE plugged a server into somewhere in the OPM, allowing them to send mail as OPM
And the system they plugged into explicitly states people don't have to answer emails
https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3liu2xz2xqk2k
Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...
DOGE plugged a server into somewhere in the OPM, allowing them to send mail as OPM
Illegally, plugged in a server. Don't forget the 'illegally'.
If nothing else, it's a completely idiotic idea.
Say there are 1 million government workers. If Muskie could read one letter a minute for ten hours a day, five days a week, it would only take him a year to get through the pile.
Oh they're just going to shovel all the responses into an LLM, ask it who they should fire, and then blindly trust it
LLM,
Today I learned...
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.
I also imagine some government worker auditing an oil rig or an undercover cia agent - they can't fucking write letters "from their offices"
But elon musk is a computer science genius. Surely he passed his calc i class in undergrad. I remember my professor mentioning how long it would take you to count to 1 million.
$42 says they’re feeding it to Grok and asking it to make decisions
Also using the messages for training it.
Can't upvote because you are at 42. ⬆️⬆️⬆️
He will probably have his lackeys read them or AI. There's not a chance musk does any work.
Don't even need AI. Find the average length of employees' responses - Fire everyone below the average mark. Doesn't make any sense, but seems like the kind of metric Musk would use to fire people.
This is assuming they care about responses. This is a scare tactic to scare government workers into stepping down, sowing confusion and doubt into their daily work. They are actively dismantling the government to weaken resistance against themselves
Could be there stockpiled for excuses to target specific people to be fired and only read when they have someone they're targeting.
He's not going to read them, it's to increase the workload of the workers. It's to slow down and frustrate the workers who didn't resign. He's met resistance, so now he has to apply pressure.
They were told to only reply back with the word "resign", so it seems they had it automated
Good, more people need to question it and not just roll over and accept it.
operative krasnov's handpicked fbi director, and secretary of state, and ag.. pushing back on old spice's asinine and over-reaching ultimatum.