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"Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review
process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether
ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were “related to DEI.”
That’s what the newly released proposed amended complaint from the Authors
Guild against the US government reveals about how DOGE actually decided which
National Endowment for the Humanities grants to kill.
There were plenty of early reports that the DOGE bros Elon Musk brought into
government—operating on the hubristically ignorant belief that they understood
how things worked better than actual government employees—were using AI tools
to figure out what to cut. Now we have the receipts.
The bros in question here are Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox who appeared all
over the place in the early DOGE days, destroying the US government."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
