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Re:CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew cont... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:43AM (#43701552)
The Verge: Elon Musk's DOGE figured out one thing: if you control the computers, you control everything. - https://youtube.com/shorts/XSKXIUuDV1c

The Moving Goal Posts in Musk’s DOGE Cuts: Why Elon Musk and his team have struggled to make the spending cuts they promised - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/elon-musk-dog... | https://archive.today/GPDNY - April 14th, 2025

Elon Musk dramatically lowers his DOGE spending cut targets (again) - https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/elon-mus... - April 11th, 2025

See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings: Musk team’s $150 billion in savings barely dents $6.8 trillion in spending largely on autopilot, WSJ analysis finds - https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doge-government-sp... | https://archive.today/DGGhX - April 11th, 2025

"A system’s function or purpose is not necessarily spoken, written, or expressed explicitly, except through the operation of the system. The best way to deduce the system’s purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves. Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.” —- Donella Meadows

Re:CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew cont... by pseudalopex on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:52AM (#43704198)
> "A system’s function or purpose is not necessarily spoken, written, or expressed explicitly, except through the operation of the system. The best way to deduce the system’s purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves. Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.” —- Donella Meadows

The purpose of a system is what it does.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

Re:CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew cont... by toomuchtodo on Friday April 18, 2025 @10:16AM (#43728308)
Elon Musk Decimated the Government and Saved Almost Nothing - https://jacobin.com/2025/04/musk-doge-savings-austerity-spen... - April 17th, 2025