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.

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    2 days ago

    Worth noting that anyone can send an email to hr(at) opm(dot)gov to let them know what you did last week…

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    3 days ago

    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?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days ago

      Oh they’re just going to shovel all the responses into an LLM, ask it who they should fire, and then blindly trust it

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        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.

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      3 days ago

      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.

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      3 days ago

      operative krasnov’s handpicked fbi director, and secretary of state, and ag… pushing back on old spice’s asinine and over-reaching ultimatum.