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Re:DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for le... by skulk on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:12PM (#42976926)
off topic (who even cares about the OP) but I heard a clip of Musk saying that "the bureaucracy subverts democracy. I want government by the people, not the bureau" and ... I don't even. Do people really fall for this? Is it not obvious that one bureau is just being sub'd out for another less accountable one? Are people really that stupid?
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Re:DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for le... by talldayo on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:14PM (#42976950)
> Do people really fall for this?

Yeah. There are still people that call it "Twitter" in 2025.

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Re:DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for le... by anigbrowl on Friday February 07, 2025 @05:09PM (#42978072)
What a weird comparison. Some people do that to annoy Musk fans, others do it because the original name for something is often preferred to a meaningless rebrand - much as everyone still refers to Alphabet corp as Google.
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Re:DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for le... by talldayo on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:20PM (#42978635)
It's not weird at all. Twitter isn't just symbolically dead, it's literally gone. If you still use it or even refer to it as a euphemism for X, you're promoting an alt-right radicalization platform intended to farm hatred. There's not really a middle ground here, advertisers will tell you.

Similarly - there are still people looking at the Digital Service expecting great results and deferred gains. They don't understand that this effort has been damned since the starting gun was fired.

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Re:DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for le... by archagon on Friday February 07, 2025 @05:23PM (#42978198)
More charitably, it seems relatively easy to hack people at scale by exploiting their cognitive biases. (Especially people lacking humility or self-reflection, e.g. the stereotypical "smart" software engineer.)
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