(We're fucking over the second and third parts through society and education but we don't need to add fuel to the fire dammit)

Part of the process of research is seeing enough of what is out there, combined with what you know and your skills in determining the veracity of information, to know what sources are likely trustworthy. LLMs shortcut all 3.

"ye jest! mr. beast???"

the only pushback might be inquisition officials thinking it was some kind of trick or joke because it was too fuckin easy

"a man calling himself 'beast' is bribing men and women to participate in unholy games" you would tell that to any arbitrary person in europe for centuries and they would not need any further convincing to say it was the doing of the Adversary

Gamers personally

for hundreds of years shipbuilding has been a battleground between "this new technology will change everything" and "please for the love of God just plan better" and somehow the first team usually wins, with dubious results

that has its virtues. otoh sexual abuse of maids and female servants was endemic on a level comparable to Epstein

Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.

DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:

They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts

Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts

Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website