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The Trump administration is working with each federal agency to grow the number of jobs it can strip worker protections from, according to three people with knowledge of the process.
The effort is part of the White House’s push to tighten the president’s control over career civil servants.
In an executive order last month, Donald Trump stripped roughly 8,000 employees of protections they have historically had before facing discipline.
The Office of Personnel Management is e…

Trump Officials Have Told Agencies to Find More Workers to Make At-Will
Trump already cut worker protections for 8,000 career civil servants. Agencies have been tasked with growing that number.

"The cure for bad management is more management. The cure for specialized research is more costly interdisciplinary research, just as the cure for polluted rivers is more costly nonpolluting detergents. The pooling of stores of information, the building up of a knowledge stock, the attempt to overwhelm present problems by the introduction of more science is the ultimate attempt to solve a crisis by escalation."
Ivan Illich: Tools for Convivality, 1973, p.17

Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforce-acquires-contentful-…

Salesforce Acquires Contentful in Latest Move to Boost AI
Salesforce is acquiring Contentful, a provider of content management software for businesses, in the latest sign of its efforts to make its customer data more easily accessible to AI agents. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce paid between $1 billion and $1.5 billion for Contentful, which was founded in 2013, according to a person with direct knowledge of the figure. That’s a