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  <title>Nostr notes by John Skiles Skinner</title>
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    <name>John Skiles Skinner</name>
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      <title type="html">&amp;#34;six of her 13 children have died. Usman, 40, told CNN her ...</title>
    
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      &amp;#34;six of her 13 children have died. Usman, 40, told CNN her most recent loss was in March, just days after a US-funded nutrition program that had provided therapeutic food packets to her malnourished twins was abruptly halted&amp;#34;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/africa/nigeria-malnutrition-crisis-usaid-intl&#34;&gt;https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/africa/nigeria-malnutrition-crisis-usaid-intl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/carhengeclub/media_attachments/files/115/244/015/891/375/990/original/4228f3b51ae04bdc.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;br/&gt;
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    <updated>2025-09-21T19:49:22Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">Broken link, fyi</title>
    
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      In reply to &lt;a href=&#39;/nevent1qqspqn97z6lzg3t3u7kj0ck35mszwh9jaesdst7m4sv6swulk5ta2hqq3cqzq&#39;&gt;nevent1q…cqzq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;_________________________&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Broken link, fyi
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    <updated>2025-08-28T18:15:11Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair ...</title>
    
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      In reply to &lt;a href=&#39;/nevent1qqsd8adl4k6ngrl4gg6d3855yk8gj38gm6ukheet4jqyj50sdwv342ql4t8xw&#39;&gt;nevent1q…t8xw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;_________________________&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair to them, their staff who would would have dealt with this situation were mostly fired by DOGE.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So my fellow civil servants at the CDC feel abandoned. They are hated with a murderous rage and no one cares.
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    <updated>2025-08-17T02:13:21Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t ...</title>
    
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      A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 &amp;#34;blast-proof&amp;#34; windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
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    <updated>2025-08-17T02:09:11Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">The majority of DOGE&amp;#39;s &amp;#34;work&amp;#34; is to use LLMs to ...</title>
    
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      The majority of DOGE&amp;#39;s &amp;#34;work&amp;#34; is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords &amp;#34;LGBTQ,&amp;#34; &amp;#34;BIPOC,&amp;#34; and similar, and then to cancel those grants.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/carhengeclub/media_attachments/files/114/696/161/023/437/669/original/de0bd9f9e8ce4741.png&#34;&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/carhengeclub/media_attachments/files/114/696/161/040/889/149/original/d4b38868f2ea3d92.png&#34;&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/carhengeclub/media_attachments/files/114/696/161/033/035/685/original/0657eb3bbaa0a0ea.png&#34;&gt; &lt;br/&gt;
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    <updated>2025-06-17T01:45:45Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">While saying &amp;#34;this is incredible&amp;#34; over and over, ...</title>
    
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      In reply to &lt;a href=&#39;/nevent1qqswes5cx046gn06g9qp2sku4g3h99cf65vsvma7feksfgcqflahfyqezmdsl&#39;&gt;nevent1q…mdsl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;_________________________&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;While saying &amp;#34;this is incredible&amp;#34; over and over, Musk&amp;#39;s GSA head Stephen Ehikian asked GSAi to &amp;#34;write me a website.&amp;#34; The output was not compliant with federal law. It said &amp;#34;Welcome to Our Company&amp;#34; on it and did not resemble a federal website at all.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;😟 This garbage demo had a terrified audience
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    <updated>2025-03-22T00:05:36Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">No one from the new admin wrote a single line of code for it. But ...</title>
    
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      In reply to &lt;a href=&#39;/nevent1qqsvj9vqyq7r5vdw20e7enwx8u468f0dn76t8wwnmu3svzlu4xh7anqwgg6ur&#39;&gt;nevent1q…g6ur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;_________________________&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;No one from the new admin wrote a single line of code for it. But GSAi has become their proud &amp;#34;AI-first strategy.&amp;#34;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(Previously at my job, rather than AI or any tech we put *people* first. See 18F&amp;#39;s work on &amp;#34;human-centered design.&amp;#34;)
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    <updated>2025-03-22T00:03:29Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the ...</title>
    
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      I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they&amp;#39;ve fired.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It can&amp;#39;t. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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    <updated>2025-03-22T00:02:11Z</updated>
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      <title type="html">* Waste queer-phobes&amp;#39; money * Speak in a way broligarchs ...</title>
    
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      * Waste queer-phobes&amp;#39; money&lt;br/&gt;* Speak in a way broligarchs cannot control&lt;br/&gt;* Hack the planet 🌎&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://johnskinnerportfolio.com/blog/domain_name_battlefield/&#34;&gt;https://johnskinnerportfolio.com/blog/domain_name_battlefield/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;My article in &lt;span itemprop=&#34;mentions&#34; itemscope itemtype=&#34;https://schema.org/Person&#34;&gt;&lt;a itemprop=&#34;url&#34; href=&#34;/npub19he68lljc7m3ndrrzjvdpzcp2r80g8alvwfnq5vf7g4jzh5tlerq9wynqw&#34; class=&#34;bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1&#34;&gt;&lt;span&gt;2600 Magazine&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span class=&#34;italic&#34;&gt;npub19he…ynqw&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Magazine
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    <updated>2025-01-25T23:23:40Z</updated>
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