Summary
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), touted as a bold initiative to slash federal spending and dismantle bureaucracy, is a rebranding of the Obama-era United States Digital Service (USDS).
The renamed agency will focus on modernizing federal IT and reducing workforce inefficiencies, falling short of its initial promises to cut $2 trillion in spending.
Backlash has emerged, with unions filing lawsuits over concerns of corporate favoritism and lack of transparency.
Critics argue the initiative prioritizes wealthy interests while undermining federal employees and government accountability.
For shits and giggles decided to take a look at the site
there’s ASCII art in the source
It’s changed a few times today too.
It was this:
They then replaced the middle image with: (I forgot to grab a screenshot at the time, grabbed this from google images)
Now the page shows just:
The ASCII art is also no longer in the page source as of writing.
/edit:
Just noticed, all the images on the page are hosted by ‘imagedelivery.net’ and there’s several references to x.com
I believe the colloquial phrase is, “cringe AF.”
He’s trying SO HARD to be hip and cool with the kids, and is just failing miserably.
Gotta give it to musk. Can’t be easy to be simultaneously the most successful man in the world and the biggest loser. He truly is the alpha and the omega.