WIRED ran a hit piece on DOGE for hiring [checks notes] the whiz kid who deciphered the Pompeii scrolls to audit the US Treasury

Not The Bee ^ | February 03, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

No joke: Wired wants you to believe this is a bad thing.

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. WWW.WIRED.COM https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ "Elon Musk's Government Takeover"

Gotta love the pea-sized brains over at Wired.

Elon Musk's takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of — and in at least one case, purportedly still in — college.

Elon isn't taking over anything. He's been brought in as a contractor on the authority of the president to audit wasteful spending, corruption, and incompetency in the agencies that report to the president.

If people don't like that, then maybe we should have stuck with the three branches of government in the Constitution instead of letting past presidents circumvent it by creating the swampy, three-letter agencies.

Wired then takes a shot at billionaire conservative donor Peter Thiel.

Most have connections to Musk and at least two have connections to Musk's longtime associate Peter Thiel, a cofounder and chairman of the analytics firm and government contractor Palantir who has long expressed opposition to democracy.

They spout off these words as if any of this is scary.

Peter Thiel and Elon are both co-founders of PayPal. Vice President JD Vance worked for Thiel at his venture capital company Mithril Capital. Palantir and offshoots like Anduril (you'll notice an amazing Lord of the Rings theme here) aim to revolutionize American defense instead of relying on the status quo of the post-WW2 order that has become inefficient and corrupt.

And as for opposition to "democracy," that buzzword is so 2024.

Now we get to the whiz kids hired by Elon: WIRED has identified six young men — all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 ... who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.'

The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Let's talk about just a couple of these guys, starting with Luke. Luke is a verified genius who won an award last year for deciphering the singed remains of scrolls found in the ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Some whiz kids figured out how to read charred scrolls from Pompeii and we have the text from the first scroll 🤯 Some of our regular readers may remember that we reported on the Vesuvius Challenge last fall, but I bet you didn't expect someone to actually figure out a way to read lava-burned scrolls so quickly! NOTTHEBEE.COM https://notthebee.com/article/these-scrolls-were-flash-fried-by-the-eruption-of-mt-vesuvius-2000-years-ago-scientists-are-finally-able-to-read-them-for-the-first-time It only took Luke and two European partners 10 months to develop technology to read 2,000-year-old scrolls that were petrified by a pyroclastic flow.

That guy is now tasked with sifting through code, accounts, and patterns at the US Treasury. 👇

Now let's look at a few of the other guys.

This is how WIRED itself describes them:

Bobba has attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was in the prestigious Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program. According to a copy of his now-deleted LinkedIn obtained by WIRED, he was an investment engineering intern at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund as of last spring, and previously an intern at both Meta and Palantir.

Oh no, another genius engineer with impressive experience in Silicon Valley for his young age! 😱 Kliger, whose LinkedIn lists him as a special advisor to the director of OPM and who is listed in internal records reviewed by WIRED as a special advisor to the director for information technology, attended UC Berkeley until 2020; most recently, according to his LinkedIn, he worked for the AI company Databricks. His Substack includes a post titled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies,' as well as another titled 'Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears.'

BAAAAAAAAASED.

I'm glad that WIRED has proven how effective Elon is. He hired competent young men who are eager to prove themselves, have no loyalty to the Swamp, and understand how the Swamp has been weaponized against Americans.

But WIRED wasn't attempting to change our minds. Instead, it was sending out a signal to the faithful NPCs, who immediately swapped out their programming to complain about Elon:

Unfortunately for WIRED, the credibility of the fake news is totally gone and no one listens to them anymore.

'What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,' says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. 'We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials.

Wait, having an unelected bureaucracy with zero accountability to the American public is suddenly a problem? You sound like a right-wing extremist!

So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.

Cry harder! The audits will continue until morale improves!

[Jolla]

avg age of engineer on the moon landing was 28

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Some whiz kids figured out how to read charred scrolls from Pompeii

Musk brought them in because they are going to be figuring out how to read a lot of deleted emails on destroyed servers, charred and shredded documents that the Deep State doesn't want anyone to see.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Brilliant!

[RoseofTexas]

Next time you hear the evil rats whining about Elon not being elected counter them by saying well who elected the cackling hyena in the primary to run for president to replace dementia Joe….. easy Peezy!

[suthener]

I have a feeling that our entire government is about to go down, in a good way. Hearing that Bill Krystal gets money from USAID is mind blowing. Can you imagine how deep this goes?

[wildcard_redneck]

When anyone reads the term “independant public servants” they should automatically translate it to “crooks in the rogue leviathan bureaucracy.”

[linMcHlp]

Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan:

"We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials."

Don . . . WHERE WERE YOU during Obama 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 ?

[cgbg]

Great news—thanks for posting.

It will take geniuses to take the Deep State apart—piece by piece.

Young folks have the energy needed—solid moves.

[MinorityRepublican]

Hearing that Bill Krystal gets money from USAID is mind blowing.

Never expected that. Bill Kristol should be charged for corruption for defrauding the taxpayers of the United States of America.

He should be forced to pay back every penny.

USAID is meant for a foreign organization or country.

Bill Kristol is an American.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

WIRED objecting to bringing in competent people to provide oversight on government spending is pretty much on-brand for them. I can remember those long-gone day when WIRED was still worth reading.

[AndyJackson]

Wired is likely a part of the Deep State Blob. "The History of the Intelligence State" -- an essential 40 min lecture on the origin story of The [Deepstate Intel] Blob.

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran... Luke is a verified genius who won an award last year for deciphering the singed remains of scrolls found in the ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD... That guy is now tasked with sifting through code, accounts, and patterns at the US Treasury...

Bobba has attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was in the prestigious Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program. According to a copy of his now-deleted LinkedIn obtained by WIRED, he was an investment engineering intern at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund as of last spring, and previously an intern at both Meta and Palantir...

Kliger... Substack includes a post titled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies,' as well as another titled 'Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears.' [/snip]

[AndyJackson]

No it isn't. It's a mechanims for control and manipulation of the Narrative be it foreign or domestic. US AID is an essential part of the Deepstate Intel Blob. "The History of the Intelligence State" -- an essential 40 min lecture on the origin story of The [Deepstate Intel] Blob.

[VAFreedom]

it’s actually pretty cool how quickly we allowed musk and doge to accessing all U.S citizen’s sensitive financial data as long as they are part of our team.

hopefully liberals doesn’t do the same when they get their power back.

[Alas Babylon!]

Anduril - Flame of the West!

Forged by the Elves from the Shards of Nasril!

[PGR88]

NO experience in government is an EXCELLENT thing.

They have no bias, no preferences, no knowledge or expectations. They can analyze cash flows and network patterns purely as they exist.

Trump/Musk are not asking them to build a new system, only describe how the present hairball system is constructed and what the main nodes are.

[Red Badger]

The system is as intertwined and interconnected as a kudzu vine in a Georgia pine tree..........

[BobL]

“The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”

Any word on their phone numbers, addresses, where their parents live, siblings, times that their loved one are most available for kidnapping and holding for ransom, etc.?

In other words, these Engineers need to get a lawyer and sue.

[PGR88]

Hearing that Bill Krystal gets money from USAID is mind blowing. Never expected that.

I, for one, am NOT surprised.

Simply put - how does Bill Kristol live? What is his job? why is is constantly in our faces on controlled MSM media?

He once ran a small-circulation political magazine, which failed. No one buys his books, no one pays to see him speak, no one hires him as a consultant or for any other service. Americans at large do not care or know about him in the least.

Yet he's been around for decades, he survives in DC and is constantly appearing on CNN.

Its only because forces, like USAID, PUT him there, on purpose.