funkforager

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[–] funkforager 5 points 21 hours ago

Leaving a comment to poll the chat: Who thinks the “existing contract with a credit rating agency” — who now thanks to this code injection will get a lot of new information that was previously filtered before it reached their part of the SS process — is tied to Peter Thiel?

(I honestly don’t know, just trying to ask the room)

 

Yep this headline is from today, Monday morning.

Some snippets from the article about how efficient things are now that DOGE have injected their code changes into production without testing.

Suddenly forced offline as they were taking claims, the staff members scribbled down clients’ information, then had to wait until later to load it into the computer, doubling or tripling the amount of time and work involved, the employee said.

In other instances, Managers or security guards improvised a solution after the online scheduling system failed, the employee said. They walked out to the reception area, wrote down numbers on paper slips and started handing them out to people waiting in line.

The network crashes appear to be caused by an expansion initiated by the Trump team of an existing contract with a credit-reporting agency that tracks names, addresses and other personal information to verify customers’ identities. The enhanced fraud checks are now done earlier in the claims process and have resulted in a boost to the volume of customers who must pass the checks.

EDIT: here’s an archive link. https://archive.is/FQfBu

[–] funkforager 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah it’s really more that since ten years ago, that the people who have been buying up homes are buying lots.

So the average person gets no house and the rich and corporations own many houses (then rent them out at high costs or sit on them as a private collection like a summer home or portfolio home).

[–] funkforager 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There is a plan. Replace as much of the government as possible with third party vendors run by loyal donors. Aka how they do it in Russia. once the old systems are gone Who’s gonna stop ya?

Here’s what they’re doing to the IRS with or without waiting for the lawsuits to end. (Just posted in another thread about the article it comes from):

The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, has been brought up consistently by DOGE representatives as a possible candidate, sources tell WIRED.

[–] funkforager 14 points 2 days ago

This is it. This is the big one.

The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, has been brought up consistently by DOGE representatives as a possible candidate, sources tell WIRED.

Two top DOGE operatives at the IRS, Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger, are helping to orchestrate the hackathon, sources tell WIRED. Corcos is a health-tech CEO with ties to Musk’s SpaceX. Kliger attended UC Berkeley until 2020 and worked at the AI company Databricks before joining DOGE as a special adviser to the director at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Corcos is also a special adviserto Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

[–] funkforager 3 points 2 days ago

Second reponse because I’m just blown away how you could say Bernie is silent. Here’s a live dream of the rally right the fuck now.

https://www.youtube.com/live/W3j9Sl7GKHU

[–] funkforager 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your news sources are failing you as is your search tab. Here’s a video from Bernie yesterday with footage of him at the biggest rallies he and AOC have EVER held!

https://youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w

[–] funkforager 8 points 4 days ago

Screen of the WSJ on mobile. For posterity.

 

The famous documentary Ferris Bueller’s Day Off demonstrates why forty years later our leaders elected Tariff Man. (Classic comedy actually if you’ve never seen it)

[–] funkforager 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] funkforager 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Instead of taking our jobs they’re taking our… chance for academic instruction?

[–] funkforager 63 points 1 week ago

Where is his suit? Does he not respect the office? /s

[–] funkforager 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like he wants to buy them brown uniforms to go with their new wages.

[–] funkforager 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah dang. Very cool though. Crazy collection. They also had the ice pick that killed Trotsky and an ENIGMA machine… (I think maybe both of those are the real things)

 

Natalia Goncharova The Forest 1913

Oil on canvas.  130 x 97 cm

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

In 1913, the year the present “Rayonist landscape” entitled The Forest is dated, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov signed the Rayonist Manifesto.

This Russian avant-garde movement was defined by Camilla Gray as the style which “encompasses all existing styles and forms of the art of the past, as they, like life, are simply points of departure for a Rayonist perception and construction of a picture.”

According to this new aesthetic idea which, as the American historian specifies, departed from the concept of perception, both artists showed an interest in the nature of vision and began studying light as the indispensable source of our sensory appreciation of the world. Given that, in order for any object to be seen it must be illuminated, the Rayonists represented in painting the whole sequence of rays that allows us to see a particular scene. “We do not sense the object with our eye, as it is depicted conventionally in pictures and as a result of following this or that device, ” they stated in the Rayonist manifesto. “In fact, we do not sense the object as such. We perceive a sum of rays proceeding from a source of light; these are reflected from the object and enter our field of vision.” 

The Forest, also entitled Rayonist Landscape or Rayonist Perception, which was shown both in Mishen (Target), the exhibition organized by Larionov in Moscow in 1913 marking the new movement’s introduction to society, and in the solo exhibition of the painter’s work organised by the gallery owner K.I. Mikhailova at his Art Salon in Moscow that year, is an illustrative example of Goncharova’s interpretation of Rayonism.

(https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/goncharova-natalia)

 

knew he was a bad dude and a creep but holy hell.

Records state that the alleged events happened as early as Nov. 14, 2023, to as recent as July 31, 2024. The alleged assaults were reported on Aug. 9.

On Nov. 14, 2023, George is accused of pinning a woman to the ground, strangling her and slamming her head into the ground multiple times, resulting in post-concussion syndrome.

Between Nov. 1, 2023, and May 1, 2024, George allegedly followed a woman out to her car, demanded she exit the vehicle and held a gun to the window to "encourage her to exit the vehicle." Once she got out of the car, he put the gun to her stomach and escorted her back inside the home she fled, records state.

Between June 8-10, 2024, George allegedly tried to kill a woman by "shoving a towel down the victim's throat and stating 'You think God is going to help you?' while she was attempting to pray in the closet that she would not die." Furthermore, he refused to let the woman leave the residence and strangled and assaulted her.

Sometime between May 1, 2024, and July 31, 2024, he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman who had just gotten out of the shower.

On July 27, he allegedly threw a woman in a closet when she was trying to leave the residence.

George is not currently in custody.

 

From the signing of the kids lunch bill. I just feel like even the laziest version of this is pretty fun.

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