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What about people who work on classified programs? Are they supposed to send a description of their work to a non-classified system? Or people who work in the

What about people who work on classified programs? Are they supposed to send a description of their work to a non-classified system? Or people who work in the field and aren't using email regularly? Do the people who clear trails for the National Parks Service check their email every day?

_DeadFred_ 2y ago
The goal is demoralization of all government workers. It doesn't matter what the employees do as the email and stress it causes is the goal, not the response to the email. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrative-state-trump-bannon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
- _DeadFred_ 2y ago
  Proof that the mental abuse is the point: According to OPM’s own Privacy Impact Assessment for Government-Wide Email System (GWES) - February 5, 2025 https://www.opm.gov/media/kfpozkad/gwes-pia.pdf https://www.opm.gov/media/kfpozkad/gwes-pia.pdf 4.2. What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline to provide information, or opt out of the project? The Employee Response Data is explicitly voluntary. The individual federal government employees can opt out simply by not responding to the email. 4.3. Privacy Impact Analysis: Related to Notice Privacy Risk: There is a risk that individuals will not realize their response is voluntary. Mitigation: This risk is mitigated by ensuring that any email sent using GWES is clear, by explicitly stating that the response is voluntary, and by including specific instructions for a response. Again more action for action's sake. From Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism: "The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation." https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the...
TomK32 2y ago
Oh yeah, would love to read the detailed work day of those federal agents guarding Musk, Trump or any other interesting target...

_DeadFred_ 2y ago

The goal is demoralization of all government workers. It doesn't matter what the employees do as the email and stress it causes is the goal, not the response to the email. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrative-state-trump-bannon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...

_DeadFred_ 2y ago
Proof that the mental abuse is the point: According to OPM’s own Privacy Impact Assessment for Government-Wide Email System (GWES) - February 5, 2025 https://www.opm.gov/media/kfpozkad/gwes-pia.pdf https://www.opm.gov/media/kfpozkad/gwes-pia.pdf 4.2. What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline to provide information, or opt out of the project? The Employee Response Data is explicitly voluntary. The individual federal government employees can opt out simply by not responding to the email. 4.3. Privacy Impact Analysis: Related to Notice Privacy Risk: There is a risk that individuals will not realize their response is voluntary. Mitigation: This risk is mitigated by ensuring that any email sent using GWES is clear, by explicitly stating that the response is voluntary, and by including specific instructions for a response. Again more action for action's sake. From Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism: "The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation." https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the...

TomK32 2y ago

Oh yeah, would love to read the detailed work day of those federal agents guarding Musk, Trump or any other interesting target...