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The Army’s not sure what its new ‘Executive Innovation Corps’ will actually do

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  • vinesnfluff@pawb.socialV [email protected]

    We have a term here in Brazil, for appointed "job" positions that seem to have no responsibilities and are basically a way for rich people to place their relatives and such in places close to power:

    Aspone. Assessor de Porra Nenhuma. Translates to like "Advisor of Fucking Nothing"

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    In argentina we call them ñoquis. Which is a food that we traditionally ate on the 29th of each month. The joke being that these people show up once per month at the end for their paycheck and do nothing the rest of the days

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        "The new members of Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps include Shyam Shankar, Palantir’s chief technology officer; Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO; Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI’s former chief research officer. "

        Dream team

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          I’m an executive husband in my household. As a matter of fact, I’m the CEO of husbands at home. There isn’t a higher ranking husband than me in my place of residence.

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