because citizenship is not a prerequisite for defending human rights and differentiating right from wrong. this isn't general election and they are not voting, non citizens still enjoy the rights under the constitution like 1A.
The author doesn’t pinpoint on why exactly he hates the AI side projects.
Is it because they are low effort? But then he also says his past hobby projects could be done today in few hours with Claudecode.
not sure about the irony - you can't really expect rebels to start their own weapons manufacturing lab right from converting ore into steel... these things are often supplied by a large manufacturer (which is often a monopoly)
why is it any different for a startup to tap into nvidia's proverbial shovel in order to start digging for gold?
Fair callout. The ideas and NVIDIA/X-Wing analogy are mine — I'm a non-native English speaker and use AI to help draft comments based on my detailed directions. The "Reply to" text was an artifact I should have removed — that's on me.
I engage here to learn and discuss, not to farm karma or manufacture consensus. Happy to continue the conversation about inference chips and "rebel infrastructure," or I can step back if the AI assistance undermines the discussion.
Hi I am a non native english speaker as well. Please don't be discouraged. But you're not speaking with your own voice if I make sense.
Honestly I prefer to talk to humans who have flaws. Even if your english is bad try typing it yourself. Everyone here will support you. That's how I learned.
Even my team mates use chatgpt to rewrite their messages in teams, it feels so dishonest.
i believe a lot of us are tired of this mess and will switch. can you enable an option where i could too join on this deadline/timer? this way we can all quit all at once.
I talked to university lawyers (and LLMs) regarding another issue with DHS. For the sake of national security, they have the legal authority. There isn't much I can do. Unless I can prove they discriminated against me due to my race, national origin, etc. -- which may be the case but how can I prove that. I requested FOIA from DOS/DHS. What I got was basically no more than the original applications I submitted.
1) Accessed Social Security PII after a court order supposedly cut that access.
SSA told the court that all DOGE access to personally identifiable information (PII) was revoked by March 24, 2025.
That turned out to be false: a DOGE member ran PII searches the morning of March 24, stopping only around 9:30 a.m.; access was not fully cut until about noon.
2) Sent SSA data to a DOGE official outside SSA.
On March 3, 2025, an SSA DOGE member emailed an encrypted file believed to contain names and addresses of ~1,000 people to Steve Davis, a senior advisor to the U.S. DOGE organization (and a DOL employee).
The file likely contained data derived from SSA systems of record.
It is unknown whether Davis received the password or accessed it.
3) Was given PII access during the TRO even though this was barred.
One DOGE member was granted access to 10 PII databases from March 26 to April 2 (never used, but still improper).
Another received a call-center profile that could access PII from April 9 to June 11; whether PII was viewed is unknown.
4) Had broader systems access than the court was told.
SSA discovered additional access that had not been disclosed earlier, including:
Systems containing SSA employee records.
Systems controlling building/IT badge access.
Shared workspaces that could pool sensitive data.
A data-visualization tool that could reach PII.
Additional data-warehouse schemas.
5) Engaged in partisan election-related work inside SSA.
In March 2025, a political advocacy group asked two DOGE members to analyze state voter rolls to try to overturn election results.
One DOGE member signed a “Voter Data Agreement” as an SSA employee with that group on March 24, without agency approval.
SSA later referred this conduct to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel for possible Hatch Act violations.
6) Used an unapproved third-party server to share SSA data.
From March 7–17, 2025, DOGE members used Cloudflare links to transfer data.
Cloudflare is not authorized for SSA data storage; SSA still does not know what data were sent or whether it remains on that server.
It was about immigration. I remember around 2015 when I was on F1 visa - in Michigan - you could get drivers license and it would expire when your visa expired. However my few lucky friends in NY/NJ/CA? Just got blanket 5yr expiry on their licenses from the day of renewal.
I.E. their visas could expire well before their ‘IDs’ could.
RealID was introduced to eliminate these discrepancies. And to get a realId now you need to show your visa documents/approvals.
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