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SI and Engineering @ The Agency Formerly Known as DOGE. America First ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Washington, DC
Joined February 2018
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I guarantee you are not doing enough experimentation. Exploring many avenues, deeply, all at once has never been easier in the entire history of humanity. Take advantage while you can.
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Reminder: we are slow rolling the vulnerability disclosures. SI is quite literally redefining the cybersecurity landscape as we speak. Stay frosty my white hatted friendsโ€ฆ
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Abominable insurrectionists, not even worthy of my contempt.
๐Ÿšจ๐ŸšจTHE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE ๐Ÿšจ Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution. Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone. The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T. R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that. R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative. Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A. It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth. You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to. Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants. As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them. Important to understand: The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
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At what point do I just update my title to Senior Meat Proxy
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Just in case anyone was wondering @SpaceX sent multiple skyscrapers to space today. American exceptionalism.
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The first proof of consciousness. The first recording of an emotion. The first transmission of a real human thought. And itโ€™s love.
A beautiful surprise
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FQ-42 Vengeance. FQ-44 Fury. The Air Force plans 500 Collaborative Combat Aircraft by 2032. Autonomy is becoming force structure.
This morning, @SecAFOfficial announced the official names of the Air Forceโ€™s newest Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the FQ-42 Vengeance and FQ-44 Fury, during his keynote address at the @AFA_Air_Space's #AFANational Conference. Revealing popular names was a natural next step for the CCA program as the Air Force modernizes the nationโ€™s aerial combat fleet. The Air Force intends to purchase about 1,000 combat-ready, semi-autonomous systems that will extend reach, awareness and survivability of American airpower in contested environments. Meink confirmed that the service would have 500 of the aircraft by 2032. More to follow.
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An insurer lowering premiums for @Teslaโ€™s supervised self-driving is an actuarial judgment backed by its own balance sheet. Incredible.
Zurich insurance offers lower insurance premiums if you use Tesla supervised self-driving
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At 700 Falcon missions, launch stops looking exceptional and starts behaving like infrastructure. Congratulations, @SpaceX.
700 Falcon flights completed. Congrats to the SpaceX Falcon team!
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Energy sits upstream of compute, manufacturing, transportation, and housing. Abundance there expands capacity everywhere downstream.
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AI is good at translating precise product requirements into tests. That makes Test-Driven Development more valuable when the specification precedes the implementation. Tests derived from an implementation inherit its assumptions. Passing them can demonstrate self-consistency without establishing product correctness. End-to-end tests preserve that separation by encoding the product contract across system boundaries.
unit tests are just source code at this point e2e test is the only real kind of test we can trust to guard actual behavior making sure your e2e tests reflect how users actually use your product is one of the highest ROI things you can do to your codebase
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An attritable weapon is only strategically attritable if production can replace expenditure. Hundreds of ALTIUS-600Ms per month turns that into a weapon of mass attrition. The production line is part of the weapon system.
Stacks on stacks. Altius-600M production line is hot, scaling to hundreds per month to meet customer demand. Ships before Christmas. Order now.
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EPI found that the United States lost more than 91,000 manufacturing establishments on net from 1997 to 2018. Tooling, suppliers, skilled labor, and surge production take years to rebuild. Manufacturing capacity is defense capacity. The arsenal of democracy must be built in America.
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No rare earths. A drive unit 18% smaller, 25% lighter, and built with sub-10-second automated cycle times, without sacrificing range. Tesla optimized the motor and the factory together, eliminating a strategic material dependency while improving manufacturability. Ridiculous American systems engineering.
The Cybercab motor uses no rare earth metals, but maintains the same range! This was extremely hard to achieve.
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America can manufacture the AI chips and still inherit foreign control paths through the power stack. EO 14421 therefore puts firmware, digital services, maintenance, and remote access inside the security boundary for bulk-power equipment. DOE's rules will determine enforcement. The predicate is provenance: who built it, who updates it, who can reach it.
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If Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok becoming unavailable can stop work, why are AI workflows still built around single points of failure, shared services, and concentrated dependencies? No common cause has been established. The architectural question remains.
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An AI system can emit valid JSON, satisfy every schema constraint, cite an authentic source that appears relevant, and still be wrong. Parseability, schema conformance, source authenticity, evidentiary entailment, and factual correctness are separate verification problems. Treating them as one confidence score is how plausible output becomes an operational incident.
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