#Federal workers are reporting getting the following bulk email.

Quote: “The #Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”

Y’all, I cannot stress enough how insanely damaging this is to the United States as a whole. Not just because we are seeing a brain drain of institutional knowledge that will be impossible to recover, but because why would anyone take a job as low paid and high hassle as a government job if you are subject to the same insane whims of venture capitalists and #techbro #billionaires as public sector?

Government #workers are a breed that really care about what they do. Losing them imperils us all. Not to mention that the govt is the largest employer in the country, jobs that the economy really needs.

Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion:

Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology.

I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy students and whatnot. After all, _we_ dealt with hard, measurable facts, while _those_ people dealt with some weird thought constructs that had no relevancy to the real world - right?

But this is the end result - #TechBro culture and a vast portion of our entire economy using digital bullshit generators instead of critical thinking, and using this to lead us into a fascist future where either Truth or Facts have become meaningless.

Mea culpa.

a good discussion of the rise of far-right aligned #techbro culture as a political force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6WZy08QlRI