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    1. Tech bros bought themselves a puppet government to rubber stamp their goals of laying off all humans and refuses to even consider things to keep those humans alive and well.

    2. No, it’s the other way around.

      Government is not turning to Big Tech, Big Tech turns to government to use our tax dollars to inflate their fucking bubble so they can either cash out or get bailed out.

    3. Big Tech didn’t work to slash government spending. Big Tech won’t work safely as a government work force.

    4. thegooddoktorjones on

      Damn people want ‚medicine‘ and a ‚place to live‘, where are my electronic slaves who never complain!?!

    5. Of course the AI can’t be trusted to do anything actually important autonomously, but might end up being deployed like that anyway and seriously fucks something up. But by the time that happens, all the providers will have multi-billion dollar contracts that extend beyond this administration’s term anyway.

    6. Leather_Floor8725 on

      Mango giving all our money to tech billionaires. Great job MAGA voters, yall got played

    7. coconutpiecrust on

      Big government, but not by humans or for humans. Just for and by corporations. That’s it. 

      Congrats, conservatives. You avoided communism. 

    8. Tech companies have been the government for some time now. The US is just advertising and a digitization economy.

    9. NebulousNitrate on

      I remember being part of consultation before AI was even a big thing where we were being asked how a state’s governments software could be modernized.

      The cost of building new software would be expensive, but back then (like 5 years ago) there’s no way it was more expensive than what they were doing already. They had like 5 different main systems for the tax info we were looking at, and one of there flows was literally:

      * Look up entity A in system 1
      * Print (yes print) out the page and scan/fax it over to another group in a different building
      * The other group would then re-enter all the info in system 2 
      * Then someone was paid to “audit” the systems and would every week be given the data as DB backups from system 1 and system 2 and would look for discrepancies

      In that entire flow there were probably 15 people where it was their full time job and they had been doing it for years.

      Initially we proposed connecting the two systems via a “data orchestrator” component (which we had already written and proved was possible). They rejected it because the managers of System 2 wanted to enter their own data (even though it was entered based on faxes/print outs of System 1). And it was made difficult because some data would ONLY be entered into System 1, and System 2 didn’t want it, but they tracked which data that was in a separate system… 

      Then we suggested using an OCR system/tool on System 2s side so they wouldn’t need the 10 or so people they had that were literally just reading and typing in what they saw on the print outs. They rejected that because they said they would still need to manually verify all the data, and doing the initial input automatically wouldn’t save them any time.

      It was all just a giant clusterfuck, and we joked that we should just get government jobs and write tools that did our jobs for us. The ridiculousness to me was that they had over a dozen people employed doing this for years and years, and that money could have been so much better spent on the same amount of people doing important work.

      It’s also just one state and one small section of the government, so I can’t even begin to imagine how much waste there is elsewhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are 100s of thousand of employees doing jobs that could already be automated by existing tools that aren’t even AI based.

    10. ScientiaProtestas on

      From the article:

      Why it matters: The White House appears to be trying to pick up the pieces after Elon Musk’s DOGE swept through the federal government and wiped out significant existing tech expertise.

      Big tech firms will be able to lend their workers to do two-year stints to help modernize the federal government — **and retain any equity or stock options** — and then return to their employer, Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor said in a call with reporters on Monday.

      **To avoid conflicts of interest**, employees will have to take a leave of absence from the companies and adhere to government ethics rules. It’s not clear if some would have to leave their employers entirely.

      ___

      So they fired the experts, and now have to pay more to get them back. And I don’t know how you don’t have a conflict of interest when you still have stock, and will be returning to that company.

    11. OkPlankton2384 on

      I think its incredible how MAGA takes gov jobs away from regular Americans to give it to a millionaire or billionaire that needs it more. I guess MAGA really does not want to work. Hopefully they are able to make all gov jobs only for the rich. They need thst paycheck more than regular Americans.

    12. Chance-Deer-7995 on

      Nothing is worth doing in Trumpville unless it gets a good buddy a wad of cash. It’s especially thrilling when it is free cash from the government.

    13. mangosawce9k on

      How a lot big fat no…! Big Tech, AI, whatever DOGE was. Lazy cop out stuff. Not real helpful governing!

    14. RebelStrategist on

      The headline is wrong. This isn’t about anything other than setting him and his family up for more grifting. Behind the scenes, deals and corruption will be rampant to brand a so-called “big beautiful AI,” with more hype than substance. But after billions are paid to these morons, it will never work.

    15. Isn’t this what DOGE was supposed to do? Are we having to sign another contract with another rich guy to do more damage to the government? The Republican way is to fire, red tape and make the government nonfunctional so that they can spew to their sheep the reasons why they need to privatize for profit the entire US governments responsibilities. And we all wonder why America is in so much debt! Republicans in general are really shitty people because they thrive on hate and tearing their rib or down, instead of building themselves up.

    16. railroad-dreams on

      These large tech hyperscalers are literally the enemy of your typical small rural US town that votes Republican. Big Tech will continue to weaken local stores as people buy more online, erode profits in tourism as online shopping tools continue to turn hotels and restaurants into commodities, bankrupt local news or info organizations, flatten the auto industry as people use robo taxis instead of owning cars, etc.

      The people who voted for this are so blind

    17. creaturefeature16 on

      >“They are standing up a new program that seems to overlap a great deal with what USDS did before this administration shut it down,“ says Max Stier

      Of course. That’s the Trump recipe. Just rebrand something that’s already been done, but do it worse and eventually bankrupt it.

    18. pithynotpithy on

      We can just correct the headline to „trump willing to exchange money for big tech writing laws that regulate their empires“

    19. joeyfartbox on

      Well I don’t know about you but I DID have “Trump makes Skynet real” on my second term bingo card so it looks like I’m gonna win some money.

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