Country music for Father's Day

Tomorrow is Father's Day here in the States.  I don't know where you are but this is what's Top Of Mind here.

From a musical perspective only Country Music really speaks to this.  But it speaks in different voices as your kids grow up.  Yeah, Country music takes you on that journey.

Three chords and the Truth. 

When they're young

This is the easiest time for fathers.  Trace Adkins sang about this better than anyone.  I posted about this a long, long time ago.  Reader Mark left a comment there:

The other day my oldest son, who is a freshman at UND (North Dakota, not that other 'ND') asked me if I remembered taking him, and a couple of his friends to Pizza Hut for lunch one day. He remembered it like it was yesterday. I lied to him. I told him I did, and I feel terrible about it.

Folks, it's not what we recall, it's what our kids do.

 

Amen, and amen.

The Queen Of The World likes this one.  I think it reminds her of the time her Daddy took her fishing and she won the tournament.

When they grow up

Yeah it sucks, but kids grow up, and have to find their place in the world.  Sometimes that means pushing back against The Man. As I posted at the time:

For years, Dad and I wouldn't talk.  I had a lot of anger in me then, and it came out in strange ways.  Bad ways.  Sorry, I won't talk about what happened with #1 Son, but that he came out right side up didn't have much to do with me.

This Father's Day weekend, I think on both of those.

Growing up, I knew that my Dad was a great father.  He set an example: he was a fine provider, although we didn't grow up with a lot.  Not wealthy, not weepin'.  He was someone who I could look up to, never doubting for an instant that we were everything to him.  He adored Mom.  And so it was a terrible shock to find out, in my forties, that he was made of flesh and blood.  For a while, I couldn't forgive him for that.

I like to think of myself as a smart guy, and I must confess that it's very nice indeed when someone refers to me as a "wickid smaht bahstid".  But I sure was an idiot when it mattered.  Like Dad, I found - perhaps for the first time - that I, too, was mere flesh and blood.  Full of Foolish Pride, and driving myself into a ditch.

I'll swallow my pride if you will. 

That post is worth reading. 

Sometimes they don't come back

We ask a lot of our sons.  Some times we we ask them to to go to far away places.  Sometimes they don't come back.

Reflections on Father's Day

I remember this being hard to write.  It's hard to read now.

What I remember the most about being a father is is this:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

- Kalil Gibran, The Prophet

 So let it be written.  So let it be done.

The surprisingly reinvigorated Second Amendment

Next week this blog turns 18 (!).  That's a milestone that makes you think back on the journey.

This journey began in the lead up to the release by the US Supreme Court of the Heller v. District of Columbia opinion - in other words, this blog pre-dates Heller.  Looking back on the last 18 years here, things are really different for the Second Amendment.

It's all well and good to have a Constitution that's written down in black and white, but that doesn't help much if the Legislatures ignore it and the Courts refuse to strike down infringing laws.  That has changed, and while there are still pieces of broken Gun Control on the floor needing to be swept up, the change is profound.  Let's take a quick recap on that and then talk about what it means.

Heller v. D.C. (2008) stated as the plain law of the land that Second Amendment rights apply to individuals, not just to State Militias.  It kind of seems ridiculous to actually have to write this today, but that was the "accepted" legal understanding prior to Heller.

McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) held that Heller applied not just to the District of Columbia, but to all the States (via the 14th Amendment).

New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) was the hammer blow.  It established that the meaning of the Second Amendment as it was understood at the time was what it really meant, and that gun control laws had to demonstrate that the laws are consistent with that.  This flipped the switch - no longer would citizens have to demonstrate that they have a right, but the government has to demonstrate that they don't.  

This is what has left all those broken pieces of Gun Control cluttering up the floor.  Sure, they still need to be swept up, but look where things are now:

1. Gun permitting is not dead, but it's coughing up blood.  "Shall Issue" permitting is the law of the land - governments have to prove that you shouldn't be allowed to carry rather than you justify why do need to.
2. Most States were "Shall Issue" in 1990.  None are today.  In fact, half the States don't require you to have any permit at all to carry a firearm. 
3. "Assault Weapons" Bans are the last refuge of the desperate.  Liberal Legislatures that pass these today know for certain that they will be struck down.  Increasingly, the Courts are imposing restraining orders preventing the laws from going into force while they are being litigates.
4. The National Firearms Act of 1934 is a pale shadow of its former self.  Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" (which was anything but) repealed the tax on suppressors.  The Tax Code is really the main way for the Fed.Gov to impose the law here; no tax, no law.

So what does all this mean?  The biggest advancement in Second Amendment rights has been the normalization of the idea of firearms.  The biased media has a really hard time today in painting us as a fringe community. 

Heck, SCOTUS just ruled that the Fed.Gov cannot prevent firearms purchases by people who smoke pot.  The ruling was unanimous.  Conservative Alito and liberal Kagan co-authored a concurring opinion.  It's cats and dogs living together.

This has even been absorbed by the lower courts - the District and Circuit Courts of Appeals.  It's great if SCOTUS makes a ruling, but if the lower courts don't enforce it then it doesn't carry much weight.  We saw a fair amount of this during the years after Heller.  Now we don't.  Sure, there will always be the rogue District Judge who allows a plainly infringing gun control law, but these are getting struck down on appeal.

We're no longer the weirdos, the weirdos are on the other side.  The Class War against gun owners is pretty much over.

That's one heck of a change in 18 years.

 

Massachusetts demonstrates the futility of gun control

Via Insty, here's proof of the utter futility of gun control:

A man named Tyler Brown opened fire on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass., this week, turning an ordinary Monday afternoon into a rolling ambush near Harvard and MIT.

Middlesex DA Marian Ryan said Brown, a 46-year-old Boston man (notice no doctor was needed to identify Brown as a man), fired roughly 50 to 60 rounds from a rifle at vehicles on the roadway.

A Mass Statie and Our Hero (legally carrying, natch) shot the dirty perp.  So well done!  And I hear you ask, what's the tie in to gun control.  This:

Brown didn't appear from thin air; his criminal record included a 2020 shootout with Boston police, and he had pleaded guilty to charges tied to armed assault with intent to murder. He was reportedly out on probation when the Cambridge shooting unfolded. 

OK, so Massachusetts is run by dumbasses.  Dude was out on parole for armed assault with intent to murder, and he shot up a bunch of stuff, including a Massachusetts State Police cruiser.

But here's the punch line:

[The perpetrator] survived with non-life-threatening injuries and faces serious charges, including armed assault with intent to murder. [Emphasis mine - Borepatch]

This time he'll be sorry! 

Some Masshole judge will release him in 4 or 5 years.  But more gun control is just the thing.  Oooooooh kaaaaaay.

It's quite a mystery why all the retarded Massachusetts liberals think they're so much smarter than we are.  The evidence is against them. 

 

The 2026 sports photo of the year

The horse on the left is Golden Tempo, a 23-1 long shot who won the Kentucky Derby.  The jockey is Jose Ortiz who won the Kentucky Oaks race yesterday - only the ninth jockey to win both in the same year.

The horse on the right is Renegade, at 4-1. The jockey is Irad Ortiz, Jr., Jose's brother.  Irad has won the Belmont Stakes twice.

That's a horse riding Dynasty. 

How far back in time can you understand English?

The English language has evolved for basically as long as there has been English.  A great book on this subject is Robin MacNeil (and company) in The Story Of English (highly recommended if you are a history nerd like me). 

Well, via a link from someone I've forgotten (sorry! Midwest Chick? A Large Regular?) there is a fabulous demonstration of this where the writer starts in the present and where each paragraph goes backwards in time 100 years.  I started getting lost around 1200 AD, and I've messed around casually with Old English before.  I would catch the odd word before 1200 but the overall gist was a mystery.

And I love the URL for his site.  LOL.

But at the end of his post he links for a Youtube video of a guy who speaks the different versions of English, starting in 400 AD and going forward 100 years at a time.  I found this a lot harder than reading, only starting to pick up some comprehension around 1500 AD.  But when he turns on transcriptions it's amazing how far back I recognize a lot of words.

Wild.  I've embedded it here.  Highly, highly recommended. And I guess I'm not the only one who's interested - 1.2 Million views in two months?  Yowser.

An interesting perspective on AI

Long time Internet Security guy Fred Cohen has some interesting thoughts on how AI can be less obnoxious [PDF]:

The nature of the problem (I think) is that the attempts at safety reflect the behavior of the people who programmed and trained the AI engines, and they are apparently snarky, obnoxious twits that think its better to argue about meta issues than to serve their customers, like me, with the real capabilities they have developed. 

Their version of safety is the opposite of mine. If you want children to be safe from AI, don’t let them use it. 

If you want adults to be safe from AI, don’t make it available. 

If you want a ship to be safe, don’t put it out to sea… but that’s not what ships are for. We trade the utility for the safety, and while making ships that leak like a sieve is a bad idea in my view, making ships that don’t sail is a fruitless effort.

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Solution 

The solution is to put someone in charge of these mechanisms in these companies who is not a snarky, obnoxious twit… and I hope this doesn’t exclude me from the candidate pool. 

There are also some rather direct solutions to the problem of providing information to people where the information is not something that should be provided to anybody as a matter of policy. The most obvious solution is not to incorporate any of that sort of policy-violating information in the learning process. 

Of course the snarkiness is the same problem. If you don’t teach the LLM to be snarky by feeding it snarky crap, it will probably not behave that way. It’s no different than a child brought up by respectful parents vs. disrespectful parents. They learn from their teachers. 

Conclusions 

If you don’t want trouble, stop asking for it. If you teach a dog to bite, you are unlikely to be successful at later telling it not to. If you train an LLM with views of pedophiles, fraudsters, and murderers, you are unlikely to get it to not carry that behavior through later on. 

I think that Fred's entirely correct here (note that we ignore the very serious problem of AI Hallucinations here). AI training is generally crap layered on top of the hallucination engine*.

But I wonder if this is an opportunity for AI companies?  If you did a better job training the AI to be well-behaved (like you'd do with your kids or your dogs) would you have a different - and more attractive AI offer?  How about politeand wellbehavedAI.com?  That's a branding that would stand out from all the others.  You could market it to parents worried about their kids, or to old fuddy-duddies like me who hate everything about AI?

I smell a billion dollars of venture capital here ... 

* It seems very likely that the AI algorithms cannot be prevented from hallucinating. 

Glen Campbell plays bagpipes on "Mull of Kintyre"

Who knew? 

England's hidden WWII beach pillbox

Things looked bleak for Great Britain in 1940.  France had fallen and even with the "Miracle of Dunkirk" the British Army didn't really have the hardware to fight the Nazi war machine.  All that stood between them and Hitler was the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, but everyone expected an invasion at any time.

And so a whole bunch of pillboxes were built on likely landing beaches.  The problem, of course, is that a pillbox looks like, well, a pillbox, and the Luftwaffe would target them as a matter of course.

And so the Brits built a disguised one. 

It looked like an old ruined cottage but was newly built from reinforced concrete with gun ports instead of windows.  Pretty cool.  And what's also cool is that it's Grade II listed as a historic building.

Earth has some solar system stalkers

Well, they're sure acting like stalkers:

You might recall that in late 2024, Earth gained a temporary mini-moon, an asteroid that partially orbited our planet for about two months. Now astronomers have discovered another temporary companion to Earth, but this time it’s a quasi-moon. The Pan-STARRS observatory on Haleakala in Hawaii first spotted the quasi-moon, named 2025 PN7, on August 29, 2025. Older data revealed that 2025 PN7 has been in this particular orbit for about 60 years and will stay in this orbit for about another 60 years before the tug of the sun once again releases it from its quasi-moon status.

Huh.

Attacking AI via prompt manipulation

This is actually pretty clever:

The attack involves hiding prompt instructions in a pdf file—white text on a white background—that tell the LLM to collect confidential data and then send it to the attackers.

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The fundamental problem is that the LLM can’t differentiate between authorized commands and untrusted data. So when it encounters that malicious pdf, it just executes the embedded commands. And since it has (1) access to private data, and (2) the ability to communicate externally, it can fulfill the attacker’s requests. I’ll repeat myself:

This kind of thing should make everybody stop and really think before deploying any AI agents. We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks. Any AI that is working in an adversarial environment­—and by this I mean that it may encounter untrusted training data or input­—is vulnerable to prompt injection. It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there.

Essentially, this means that AI is simply not fit for purpose.  And clearly, it's not even a little bit "intelligent", security-wise.  

New Viking site discovered in Canada?

If true, this is really cool:

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have used satellite imagery to identify a site in Newfoundland that could be the first new Viking site discovered in North America in over 50 years.

Satellite imagery, magnetometer surveys, and a preliminary excavation of the site at Point Rosee in southern Newfoundland last year could point to a potentially fascinating discovery.

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Archeologist Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, used high-resolution satellite imagery to spot ruins as small as 11 inches buried below the surface, according to NOVA. Satellites positioned around 478 miles above the Earth enabled Parcak and her team to scan a vast section of America and Canada’s eastern seaboard.

The satellite images, two magnetometer surveys, and preliminary excavations suggest “sub-surface rectilinear features,” according to the experts, who also identified possible evidence of ironworking in the form of roasted iron ore. Radiocarbon technology has dated the site to between 800 and 1300AD.

Excavations are required to confirm the discovery, so we will have to wait and see. Still, we've known for a long time that Vikings were on that island during that time.

Interestingly, The Queen Of The World was born not 40 miles from Point Rosse when her father was stationed at the Air Force Base on Stephenville.

Things I did not know, vol XCIII

A bunch of States have State Dinosaurs? 

I guess that since it's true that nobody's Life, Liberty, or Property are safe when the Legislature is in session, I have to approve of all the time that went into passing these bills. 

Glen Filthie could not be reached for comment

Do Manatees control their buoyancy by farting?

Manatees are incredibly intelligent marine mammals who show long-term memory and associative learning skills on par with dolphins. They are thought to have inspired the myth of the mermaid. (In 1493, Christopher Columbus saw three “mermaids” — in actuality, manatees — while sailing near the Dominican Republic.) And the sea cows talk to each other while playing and during intimacy.

Butt here’s the kicker: There is scientific evidence to suggest that they regulate their underwater buoyancy — their ability to rise and fall in the water column — by farting.

 Huh.  Who knew?

 

Happy Solstice

Today is the day with the longest period of daylight (in the Northern Hemisphere; in the Southern it's the longest night).

Here in the Sunshine State we're not far enough north to really see much difference.  Today's daylight will last 13-ish hours which isn't too noticeable.  The reverse is true in Winter, when the daylight only lasts 11-ish hours.

But in Maine where I grew up (pretty close to 45 degrees North latitude) it will be 15:30 hours of light.  Mom always hated winter because with only 9 hours or so of daylight it got dark around 4:00 in the afternoon.

But could be worse: Oslo (in the absolute south of Norway) will have almost 19 hours of daylight today.  Maybe this is why Scandinavian films are so depressing - winter gives them only 5 hours of daylight.

So enjoy the sun (assuming you don't live in the Antipodes).  And be thankful you don't live near Stonehenge.  The freaks come out in force today. 

Image re-enacted from the Wik

But eventually the sun will go down today (OK, not if you're in Fairbanks).  Take us away, Kenny ...

World War 1 British Bubba-ing?

Big Country is doing a series of Lee-Enfield restorations which are well worth your time if you (like me) love old Mil-Surp bolties.

By accident I ran across one of Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons vids about how the British Army did a mod of the SMLE to make it a semi-automatic rifle.  It's cool in a "hey, this really works!" kind of way.  Total kludge, but really cool. 

The futility of security patches

OK, the post title is intentionally inflammatory, but here's a pointer to a very heterodox view on the subject:

Patch Tuesday has rolled around again, but if you don't rush to implement the feast of fixes it delivered, your security won't be any worse off in the short term – and may improve in the future.

That's the opinion of Craig Lawson, a Research Vice President at analyst Gartner, who on Wednesday told the firm's Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference: "Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale."

Now for some important background.  Gartner Group is probably the premier IT market research organization.  All the big companies subscribe to their work.  Gartner prides themselves on bucking the tide of conventional wisdom (not too often, of course) - this is a great example of this.  They also pride themselves on having quotable quotes that will get picked up in the media - this is also a great, classic Gartner quotable quote.

Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale.

Well, yeah.  The point of joining vulnerability data with threat exposure data is one we talked about 25 years ago.  The concept is a good one, but the devil is (as always) in the details.  Quite frankly, a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) who tells his security team to back off patching - and whose company then gets hacked - won't likely be CISO after the next Board meeting.  Just sayin'.

But this is pure Gartner Group. Interesting idea, well stated, enticingly attractive for those who see themselves as Six Sigma.  I encourage you all to click through and read it.  Just keep in mind that this idea has been a non-starter for a quarter century.  Nothing has changed here.

But Gartner Security conferences are a lot of fun, and many fine lunches and dinners are enjoyed.

 

Security cats and dogs, living together

This was so full of win that it is in danger of collapsing into a Black Hole of win.

But let me give you some background about why.  Longtime readers know how I enjoy Christmas light displays that people put up at their houses.  As it turns out, Rob Joyce (they guy who led the NSA's attack team, TAO) is one of these people.  OK, cool - the Fed.Gov's chief h4X0r dude likes his light show.  So what?

Well, he went out to ShmooCon and gave a preso about how he did it. For those not in The Biz, ShmooCon is a very long running hacker convention - it's not at all corporate button-down.  Still has a whiff of the old school to it.

And so Joyce gave a talk about his Christmas lights there.

El Reg has an interview with him about this, which is a great read.  Here are my two favorite bits:

[Driving around looking at other people's displays] It was over the top and gaudy, and just really made me happy. I said "I think I could do that," meaning I have the technical chops to achieve it. And [Joyce's wife] said, "yes you can," and I took that as license to mean, "yes, you can do it." And so when boxes started arriving in the mail in February and March, she's like, "what the hell is this?"

I can totally hear The Queen Of The World saying those very same words to me ...

The Register: A senior person in the NSA ordering huge amounts of electronic equipment from China didn't set off any red flags?

Joyce: None of the compute comes from China, just the LED strings themselves. I would applaud somebody if they could supply chain that.

I do take a little more care in the control system itself. It's not connected to the internet and is a standalone network – because I do have friends who have interesting hobbies and would love to change my display and make it say some interesting things.

In this business you don't last very long - or rise very high - if you're not paranoid.

Highly, highly recommended - both the interview and the video.

"Open the garage door, HAL."

Home AI computer for $250:

NVIDIA is taking the wraps off a new compact generative AI supercomputer, offering increased performance at a lower price with a software upgrade.

The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, which fits in the palm of a hand, provides everyone from commercial AI developers to hobbyists and students, gains in generative AI capabilities and performance. And the price is now $249, down from $499.

Available today, it delivers as much as a 1.7x leap in generative AI inference performance, a 70% increase in performance to 67 INT8 TOPS, and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth to 102GB/s compared with its predecessor.

Don't think I need one of these, but that's me.

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AI failures in healthcare

Oh my word:

On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings despite warnings against such use. The AP interviewed more than 12 software engineers, developers, and researchers who found the model regularly invents text that speakers never said, a phenomenon often called a "confabulation" or "hallucination" in the AI field.

Upon its release in 2022, OpenAI claimed that Whisper approached "human level robustness" in audio transcription accuracy. However, a University of Michigan researcher told the AP that Whisper created false text in 80 percent of public meeting transcripts examined. Another developer, unnamed in the AP report, claimed to have found invented content in almost all of his 26,000 test transcriptions.

Of course, they use it because it's cheaper than paying a human transcriber.  So riddle me this, Healthcare Administrator: what do you call yet another AI that lies all the time?  A day that ends in "-day".

And people have started noticing:

While the vast majority of people over 50 look for health information on the internet, a new poll shows 74% would have very little or no trust in such information if it were generated by artificial intelligence.

Meanwhile, 20% of older adults have little or no confidence that they could spot misinformation about a health topic if they came across it.

That percentage was even higher among older adults who say their mental health, physical health or memory is fair or poor, and among those who report having a disability that limits their activities. In other words, those who might need trustworthy health information the most were more likely to say they had little or no confidence they could spot false information.

People are smart enough to catch a whiff of marketing Bravo Sierra.

From now on I will start asking all of my healthcare providers if they do transcription, and if so whether they use AI for the transcription.  If they do I will demand to review the transcript.  If they won't, I'll get a different provider.

Is there an Extinction Level Event coming for the Deep State?

An Extinction Level Event is when something - we typically don't really understand what - causes a mass die-off, with 60% or more of species disappearing. The most famous of these was the asteroid that finished off the dinosaurs (if you believe that; I'm skeptical that the answer to their demise is so neat and tidy).

Well Donald Trump said he's going to appoint Elon Musk to lead a "Government Efficiency Commission":

Former President Donald Trump says that if reelected, he’ll create a government efficiency task force — and that Elon Musk has already agreed to lead it. During a speech in New York on Thursday, Trump said the new efficiency commission would conduct a “complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make recommendations for “drastic reforms.”

There's no need to look at Tesla's 50% Electric Vehicle market share, or compare SpaceX's launch rate to, well, the rest of the world combined.  Most relevant to this discussion is how Elon cut 80% of Twitter's headcount, turning the company around.

Even though reports have Government employees cutting back expenditures in anticipation of potential cuts, lots of folks are skeptical that this can be done at all.

I'm not one of the skeptics, because I've seen this my very own self, in my career at Three Letter Intelligence Agency.  It was the mid-1980s and I was a wet-behind-the-ears Electronics Engineer in the COMSEC R&D organization.  Their recent triumph was the introduction of the STU-III secure telephone.

The STU-III was a technological marvel, providing high level (Type 1) encryption in a telephony device that, well, worked like a telephone.  And it was delivered 2 years early because of a manager who might be described as the 1980s COMSEC version of Elon Musk.

Walt Deeley was a very senior Intelligence Manager.  He is listed on the NSA's web site:

As Deputy Director of Communications Security in the early 1980s, Mr. Deeley pushed the development and deployment of the STU-III secure telephone, which has been called the most significant improvement to the security of government voice communications in fifty years. He perceived the need for a new approach, and deployed an affordable and effective telephone security system within two years.

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Walter Deeley was known as a strong-willed manager who pushed his subordinates hard to get results. While a tough taskmaster, the technical advances and mission achievements he led made the United States more secure.

Bold added by me.  Let me give some additional color around that.  He was a legend in the COMSEC R&D organization.  His reputation was equal parts admiration and fear - it was almost like he who must not be named.  People remembered the careers he derailed in his quest for an encrypting telephone.

One story told to me by an old hand was how Deeley had come into the office one Saturday to see how the program was working.  He called down to the program office, and the phone rang and rang and rang.  Finally one guy who happened to be in the office on the weekend answered.  Deeley asked for the Program Manager.  When told that the PM wasn't in because it was a Saturday, Deeley told the guy who was there that he was the new PM and to see him first thing on Monday.  It was very Elon-Must-at-Twitter.

True story - at least I believed it was.  And I for sure wasn't the only one there who did.

So to those who say you can't change how the Government works, color me skeptical.  I'm skeptical because I've actually seen it change (well, heard from people who did).

The interesting question here is how you scale this throughout all the Federal Agencies.  I think the answer is to use business-as-usual: different offices play office politics against each other to get budget and headcount.  That's how the game is played.  So set up an incentive structure for Office A to rat our Office B's inefficiencies and duplications to save their own skins.  I expect that this would pay big dividends.

It's sort of like setting one type of dinosaur against another, in a battle to the death.

UPDATE 28 OCTOBER 2024 14:51: Elon says they can reduce the Federal budget by $2 Trillion.