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The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Yeah. I just read a bunch of teenage dumbasses are going to rewrite 60 million lines of Cobol code in "months". So definitely more than a smidge: telling some in the younger generation that they are magical beings that just understand everything better than anyone that came before stinks to high heaven of cultural revolution trash.
I wonder what their little red book will be? The Shart of the Deal?
The way you describe it, it sounds more like Dianetics.
I have serious doubts about that kind of timeline, most especially for such a critical system (I write software for a living; no way in hell would I give a timeline of "months" for something like this, but then I have years and years of experience, while Dunning-Kruger is running rampant in our government right now - giving teenagers the keys to the kingdom and constantly praising them for what prodigies they are is going to not end well).
But since our version of Idiocracy includes such Hollywood tropes like "young people just know tech", we are all consigned to this....I'm sure the average magoff is going to proclaim what a "genius" fElon and his techbois are all during the process, too.
Given fElon's many failed delivery timelines on things related to his companies, I expect more of the same here. Sadly, he's going to ruin a lot of people's lives in the process...at least with his bullshit companies, no one has to opt in to that. In this case, he's broken into our government and he's going to impact millions who want no part in his bullshit or his stupid crew of teenage dumbasses. And I bet anything they try to use "AI" to do most of this work.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-codebase-in-months
It's all part of the same massive con.
It's a bunch of independent cons but they all use the same methods.