Summary
Elon Musk’s staffers entered NOAA and the Department of Commerce without clearance, raising concerns over budget cuts and downsizing.
Project 2025, a conservative plan linked to former Trump officials, calls for dismantling NOAA, citing its climate research as harmful to U.S. prosperity.
Critics warn such cuts could impact weather forecasting, ocean conservation, and fisheries.
NOAA declined to comment, while experts fear an aggressive strategy to weaken the agency before legal challenges can halt changes.
Rejoice people! We will no longer be terrorized by weather alerts reporting possibly devastating weather events! Trump’s Redhats led by his South African immigrant billionaire henchman will make sure that Trump’s Sharpy of Truth will protect us!
Nah, this isn’t even about data control. This is about selling off the data, the forecasting infrastructure, the hardware, models, and most important, SATELLITE NETWORK that allow accurate forecasting. Commercial launches of scientific instruments are very very expensive with very little immediate ROI. It’s much cheaper to simply buy an existing entity out that HAS THAT and then piggyback their data - which is effectively what this is. AccuWeather has been wanting this for almost 20 years.
They have already stated their intention of replacing the National Weather Service with the very ironically named, and privately-owned, AccuWeather, so I guess this is the start of that.
I remember when Musk bought Twitter and then immediately started trying to save money by literally just turning off services to see what breaks.
That actually wouldn’t have been the stupidest idea if he had done it in a test environment rather than production, or even if Twitter was a small website that didn’t mind downtime. But he did it in production on a huge site that people relied on being up, so it actually was the stupidest idea.
And now he’s bringing the same stupidest energy to government. No investigation. No calculation. Just a toddler who has been put in front of a lot of switches.
Unless twitter had a test system doing millions of varying actions a second, I’m not sure a test environment would find those problems, or at least not quickly. Sometimes those services get added to help spread loads that you might not encounter otherwise.
Tbh I’m not sure what level of automated testing these sites have, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if the services are tested in isolation at scale, but not against each other at scale, and that there’s some general understanding that the link between them at scale is okay if both individually are okay?
Still absolutely terrible to do that to a live environment.
Maybe this is the inevitable endgame of a society that tries to harness greed the way capitalism does. Something can be working completely sustainably and for the general good, like NOAA does, and they still try to take parts of it away just so they can extract profits by selling to you what used to be free.
Its why they hate work from home. Covid came along and necessitated that workers en masse be given a benefit, and capitalists werent able to extract any concessions in return because it was an emergency. So, they claw it back, but you might be able to get a special exception if you play ball.
You’re right, except it’s the only game, not the endgame. Since neoliberalism became consensus, public assets have been sold off and paid for again by the public, but privately. We bought the roads, railways, waterways, weather stations etc with our taxes, they were sold, and we didn’t see a penny of the profits, and then we have to buy them again with our wages. The endgame is where there’s nothing left to sell off, no more exponential growth to be had, that’s when it all collapses. Greed, it seems, allows you to see past the fact that this collapse is inevitable.
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No more hurricane forecasts to make America safe again !
Imagine working for NOAA tracking weather patterns across the ocean or some crazy shit and a 23 old fucking virgin loser comes up to you and tells you you’re about to lose your job. Lol
Deport
God :')
All this Idiocracy stuff must be an elaborate joke by the American people on the rest of the world right?
Pretty good supervillain arc through, right? Just in real life.
