Ancestors

Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-04 at 20:00

Assuming Josh Marshall's reporting here checks out -- and he's got an excellent track record -- ...

25-year-old Marko Elez, a Musk software guy with no experience in governmental systems, is pushing code updates to Treasury systems without first testing them

this would be incredibly reckless

Man, I wouldn't push an update to a DIY chrome plugin without testing it first

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-cronies-dive-into-treasury-dept-payments-code-base

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Toot

Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-04 at 20:05

Also, via @irwin, here's an excellent Q&A with Nathan Tankus, going deeper into the weeds of what's incredibly dangerous about an unseasoned developer messing around with a system that -- because it is critical for government payments -- needs to work all the time, and thus ought to be updated only very carefully

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-03-filled-with-unmitigated-terror-musk-treasury-tankus-qa/

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Descendants

Written by flight • reflex on 2025-02-05 at 12:59

@clive @irwin this is a man whose life has been built so high up on cushions of redundancy and insulation that he can’t conceive the pain or consequence. He’s never known hunger or the hunger of his children, never forced to miss a car payment or rent payment (not sure of his underlings) The “turn it off and see what breaks” might have been ok for tweets, but he’s testing the waters with famine and plague

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Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-05 at 13:04

@irwin @flightreflex

Yep

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