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(The… [#GSA] did, however, stipulate that the #Pentagon could be levitated no more than 3'….) Although ~50k demonstrators marched to the Pentagon, ~2,500 took part in a direct assault on the bldg.…some smashed windows & tried to force open the doors, others hurled objects & splashed paint on…soldiers stationed inside. #Military #police from the 503rd #MP Battalion formed the first line of defense inside the entrance,…blocking & repelling #protesters who briefly breached the glass doors &…foyer.

#GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' #AI Across #US #Government
The #AIgov repository and staging site vanished when asked questions, but don't worry – they captured backups.
AI gov will serve as a hub for government agencies to begin adding AI to their operations, as was envisioned by #GSA #TTS chief and #ElonMusk ally #ThomasShedd when he took control of the team in late January.
404media.co/github-is-leaking-

404 Media · GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across GovernmentA new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.

"The federal government is working on a website and API called “ai.gov” to “accelerate government innovation with AI” that is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI, according to an early version of the website and code posted by the General Services Administration on Github.

The page is being created by the GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, which is being run by former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd. Shedd previously told employees that he hopes to AI-ify much of the government. AI.gov appears to be an early step toward pushing AI tools into agencies across the government, code published on Github shows.

“Accelerate government innovation with AI,” an early version of the website, which is linked to from the GSA TTS Github, reads. “Three powerful AI tools. One integrated platform.” The early version of the page suggests that its API will integrate with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic products. But code for the API shows they are also working on integrating with Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock and Meta’s LLaMA. The page suggests it will also have an AI-powered chatbot, though it doesn’t explain what it will do."

404media.co/github-is-leaking-

404 Media · GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across GovernmentA new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.
#USA#Trump#AI

"Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, & Ethan Shaotran’s employment designations at the General Services Administration (GSA) have been🚨officially converted to full-time from the restricted special government employee classification that limited their time in government to a period of 130 days, according to documentation viewed by WIRED."

These goons are still stealing our information, & god knows what else.

wired.com/story/big-balls-youn

WIRED · ‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government EmployeeBy Makena Kelly

#Musk is gone. But #DOGE staffers are still trying to cut through #agencies. They are not #qualified. Some DOGE employees have been hired on as permanent government staffers and given high-ranking positions inside agencies. The General Services Administration, for example, is an entry point for dozens of DOGE officials who’ve then gone to other departments. politico.com/news/2025/05/29/d #GSA #federalgovernment #background #checks none subject matter expertise. None. Loyalty to #trump yes.
#democracy

"In Feb, fed agencies "lost" many requests but you probably had no idea. It turns out: FOIAs disappeared due to an "insider threat attack" by 2 employees at a software co who were previously convicted of hacking into the St Dept.

The investigations found that the employees, twin bros Muneeb & Suhaib Akhter, improperly🚨accessed sensitive docs & compromised or deleted dozens of databases, incl those that contained data from the & *since: terminated.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bloomberg · Security Failures Behind US Contractor’s Data BreachBy Jason Leopold
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#gsa #nyc #columbia #climate

The original Charney Report that says doubling CO2 will yield 1.5-4.5 degrees C temperature change (
geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/wa
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featured these two models from #NOAA 's #GFDL and #NASA 's #GISS - incidentally, gfdl was also in the news yesterday

propublica.org/article/trump-n

" The gutting of NOAA was outlined earlier this month in a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget that detailed steep reductions at the Department of Commerce, which houses the science agency. ... NOAA’s overall funding would be slashed by 27%…
most significant target is the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ⎯ a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling, including the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ⎯ which would be cut by 74%. “At this funding level, OAR is eliminated as a line office,” the memo stated.”

#gsa has told #nasa to vacate it’s only office in #nyc

nasawatch.com/personnel-news/n

This facility is unique in that it is a partnership between #columbia and nasa with about 2/3 of the 120 people in the building being researchers employed by Columbia. This lab could not exist at all outside of nyc.

This lab, along with #gfdl in Princeton NJ were the first to come up with how sensitive the #climate is to inputs of CO2 in the 1979 Charney report.

We still make estimates of future climate change today.

NASA Watch · NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five WeeksThis was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup