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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus@fedihum.org

This needs to be shared widely:

#WhitehouseWash
My change-detection just caught something big:
dei.gov got registered around one week ago - for some days it was empty.
Than a long list appeared, which quickly got password-protected; see screenshots.

It lists short bullet-points about 'wasteful' governmental spending, looks like a list to justify their actions (and what may be to come)

See for yourself:
https://archive.org/details/changedetection-dei-gov-waste-gov

Hosted by #Automattic (of #Wordpress-fame)

A long list of new deleted sentences, too many for this alttext.
Some examples:

* $78,000 to Palestinian activist group whose chairman was photographed attending an anniversary event celebrating the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Palestine terrorist group

* $1 Million for foreign DEI programs, including ‘indigenous language technology’ in Guatemala, per non-public funding docs reviewed by WFB

* $5 million for effort to treat eating disorders by “affirming” LGBTQIA+ patients’ sexual orientation and gender claims

* Up to $3 million to defund the police advocacy group to pursue “climate justice” for convicts

* $500,000 for research on “indigenous knowledge” – “a pseudoscience that posits native Indians possess unique insights into the workings of the universe”

* Funded performances of play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” in which God is bisexual and communists are good, in North Macedonia

* Disbursed $15,000 to “queer” Muslim writers in India

* Shelled out tens of thousands to create army of 2,500 LGBTQI+ allies

* Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front

* $500,000 to group that “empowers women” in attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just ten days before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks

* $4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance – one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology — in late 2021. Later refused to answer key questions about the funding.

* $7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language”

* $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers

* $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”

* $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship…in developing Latin American countries.”

* Education Week: “Biden Administration Cites 1619 Project as Inspiration in History Grant Proposal”

* VA took at least a dozen actions aimed at bolstering DEI during the Biden-Harris administration while the number of homeless veterans increased and the amount of claims in the VA’s backlog grew from ~211,000 to ~378,000

* NASA has allocated roughly $10 million to grants advancing DEI and “environmental justice” since 2020

* Following President Trump’s executive order on DEI at federal agencies, the ATF “quietly changing the job title of its former diversity officer… to ‘senior executive’ with the ATF.

* The Department of Labor requested additional funding in 2023 for “The Chief Evaluation Office for a new rigorous interagency evaluation of actions aimed at improving Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility across the federal workforce,” more than $6.5 million “to restore employee benefits programs that will advance equity by specifically addressing how opportunities can be expanded for underserved communities and vulnerable populations,” and $5 million “to evaluate actions aimed at improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) within the federal workforce.”

* Fox Business: “FOX Business’ ‘Trouble in the Skies,’ a six month investigation of the FAA’s new hiring practices, uncovered changes that may put the nation’s flying public at risk as well as allegations that the newest air traffic control recruits had access to answers on a key test that helped them gain jobs with the FAA…Also uncovered was an FAA effort to promote diversity that discarded 3000 qualified college graduates with degrees in air traffic control despite their following FAA procedure and obtaining FAA accredited degrees.”

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Password:

host dei.gov
dei.gov has address 192.0.66.36

whois 192.0.66.26

NetRange: 192.0.64.0 - 192.0.127.255
CIDR: 192.0.64.0/18
NetName: AUTOMATTIC
NetHandle: NET-192-0-64-0-1
Parent: NET192 (NET-192-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS2635
Organization: Automattic, Inc (AUTOM-93)
RegDate: 2012-11-20
Updated: 2024-05-21
Comment: Geofeed https://as2635.network/geofeed.csv
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/192.0.64.0

OrgName: Automattic, Inc
OrgId: AUTOM-93
Address: 60 29th Street #343
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94110
Country: US
RegDate: 2011-10-05

#DEI #US #USA

Feb 14, 2025, 06:23 AM··Phanpy

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**Irenes (many)** @ireneista@irenes.space · Feb 14

Feb 14

Irenes (many) @ireneista@irenes.space

@lavaeolus (for the benefit of people who know us: we vouch for Henrik)

**Jeremy Kahn** @trochee@dair-community.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Jeremy Kahn @trochee@dair-community.social

@ireneista @lavaeolus

This "list" of "quoted strings" has all the hallmarks of an AI summary;

Here's my hunch: these are generated from an LLM, possibly trained on whatever DOGE stole

I mean, some or all of them may be "prompt engineering" to tell the AI "what sort of thing to look for"

… If that's right, all of these are invented and this takes "flood the zone" to a whole new level

**Irenes (many)** @ireneista@irenes.space · Feb 14

Feb 14

Irenes (many) @ireneista@irenes.space

@trochee @lavaeolus oh very interesting thought

ww @ww@tldr.nettime.org · Feb 14

Feb 14

ww @ww@tldr.nettime.org

@lavaeolus that list contains some terribly racist things.

it is also strange that dei.gov and waste.gov web sites are not hosted on government infrastructure at all, but seem to be hosted at a private company:

```
% host dei.gov
dei.gov has address 192.0.66.36
dei.gov has IPv6 address 2a04:fa87:fffd::c000:42d2
% host waste.gov
waste.gov has address 192.0.66.36
waste.gov has IPv6 address 2a04:fa87:fffd::c000:42e2
% whois 192.0.66.36

NetRange: 192.0.64.0 - 192.0.127.255
CIDR: 192.0.64.0/18
NetName: AUTOMATTIC
NetHandle: NET-192-0-64-0-1
Parent: NET192 (NET-192-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS2635
Organization: Automattic, Inc (AUTOM-93)
RegDate: 2012-11-20
Updated: 2024-05-21
Comment: Geofeed https://as2635.network/geofeed.csv
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/192.0.64.0

OrgName: Automattic, Inc
OrgId: AUTOM-93
Address: 60 29th Street #343
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94110
Country: US
RegDate: 2011-10-05
Updated: 2023-08-11
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/AUTOM-93
```

**Jason Bowen** @jbowen@mast.hpc.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Jason Bowen @jbowen@mast.hpc.social

@lavaeolus That's a lot of "quoted" "things"

**Henrik Schönemann** @lavaeolus · Feb 14

Feb 14

Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus

@jbowen yep

**Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’** @grammasaurus@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’ @grammasaurus@mastodon.social

@lavaeolus What do you make of this?

Are these fictitious entries?

**Henrik Schönemann** @lavaeolus · Feb 14

Feb 14

Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus

@grammasaurus They may be content those DOGE-people plan on using to justify what they did and plan on doing.
But your guess is as good as mine...

**AanakinoET** @aanakino1@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

AanakinoET @aanakino1@mastodon.social

@lavaeolus @grammasaurus it looks like someone has been compiling this list for quite some time, either documenting or fabricating things, or both

**jay** @snoopy_jay@mastodon.world · Feb 14 *

Feb 14 *

jay @snoopy_jay@mastodon.world

@aanakino1 @lavaeolus @grammasaurus So if the numbers were fabricated they'd now have created a shared "source" to point to?

**Bastian Greshake Tzovaras** @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

@lavaeolus god, it's the even more nonsensical follow up/logical consequence to Palin's "fruit flies in Paris" (the older ones in the audience might remember)

**Henrik Schönemann** @lavaeolus · Feb 14 *

Feb 14 *

Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus

@gedankenstuecke presented by Matt

**Bastian Greshake Tzovaras** @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

@lavaeolus Gotta get at least some customers these days

**Puck Rickenbacker** @Puck@sfba.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Puck Rickenbacker @Puck@sfba.social

@lavaeolus
Excellent work.

**The Crafty Miss** @TheDonsieLass@mas.to · Feb 14

Feb 14

The Crafty Miss @TheDonsieLass@mas.to

USPol

**datum (n=1)** @datum@zeroes.ca · Feb 14

Feb 14

datum (n=1) @datum@zeroes.ca

@lavaeolus hey @404mediaco and this is up your alley

**Kevin Karhan** @kkarhan@infosec.space · Feb 14

Feb 14

Kevin Karhan @kkarhan@infosec.space

@lavaeolus got it backup'd not just.on @internetarchive ?

**Henrik Schönemann** @lavaeolus · Feb 14

Feb 14

Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus

@kkarhan @internetarchive ofc - we at #SafeguardingResearch got it as well

cc @SafeguardingResearch

**Leigh Silvester** @leighms@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 15

Feb 15

Leigh Silvester @leighms@mastodonapp.uk

@lavaeolus @kkarhan @internetarchive @SafeguardingResearch

Without specific links and references it's just a pile of meaningless words, but as someone said, great for 'flooding the zone'.

Think I have already seen a Fox fan sharing something like this on FB as 'evidence:.

Would take ages to dismantle and corroborate.

**Jeremy le fou** @leftyknowitall@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Jeremy le fou @leftyknowitall@mastodon.social

@lavaeolus I checked on the funding for Angels in America in North Macedonia. The grant was for $20K not $500K. Ref: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SMK80024GR0072_1900. I suspect they are finding kernels of truth and then lying about the costs and adding incendiary word salad so the media/dems are caught explaining nuance and they can keep claiming that this is essentially “true.”

www.usaspending.govUSAspending.gov

**Jeremy le fou** @leftyknowitall@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Jeremy le fou @leftyknowitall@mastodon.social

@lavaeolus Also, any claims of actions to bolster DEI at the VA are likely about getting assistance to disabled vets.

**Jeremy le fou** @leftyknowitall@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Jeremy le fou @leftyknowitall@mastodon.social

@lavaeolus Does anyone here have connections to congressional reps? We may be able to source research among folks here to find the truth so a rep can hit back hard with a counter narrative as soon as they try to go public with this.