Monday
What did you do last week? By the middle of this week, more than a million US federal employees – roughly a third of the federal workforce – had scrambled to reply to that question, sent to them at the weekend by Elon Musk along with the threat that anyone failing to engage could be fired. Musk, who in keeping with the worst people in the world likes to open his remarks with the phrase “let’s be clear”, characterised his request for five listed achievements as a “very low” bar for government employees to meet. “An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable!” he posted on X.
