What we've been playing - old Snakes, tropical escapes, and Dead Space RemakesA few of the things that have us hooked this week. Feature by Robert Purchese Associate Editor Additional contributions byEd Nightingale, and Tom OrryPublished on Feb. 15, 2025 15th FebruaryHello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing this week. This week, Ed decides to replay the entire Metal Gear Solid series ahead of the Snake Eater remake; Tom gets really scared playing the Dead Space Remake, which is starting to become something of a theme; and Bertie - that's me - extols the power of fantasy escapism.What have you been playing?Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We've Been Playing archive.Metal Gear Solid, PS1Big fish, small fish, cardboard box.Watch on YouTubeMaybe it's the impending release of the Snake Eater remake but I had a sudden urge to replay Metal Gear Solid last weekend. Well, the entire series actually, though the first three are most easily accessible in the Master Collection. And while I say replay, I first played Solid 1 in the GameCube Twin Snakes remake, so now was a chance to play the original properly. It's not chronologically the first, but it's the best starting point right?What really struck me is that Metal Gear Solid is a bit basic. In gameplay terms at least. The game's idea of stealth is moving a dot past coloured cones, running past enemies and shooting them off screen. The story is mostly told through streams of text-based Codec conversations. The world is only a handful of screens long. And there is some utterly egregious backtracking to pad it out further - do I really need a sniper rifle to save Meryl? Does this key really need multiple temperature changes?And yet! And yet. I still love this game, I really do. It's just so iconic. It's testament to Kojima's vision - and probably the series' best storytelling, with its twists and double crossing - that it transcends such simplistic gameplay. It's a game built on standout moments that are still memorable decades later: from fourth-wall breaking "packages", to mind-reading bosses, to thwarting torture with ketchup, and so many other surprises. And it's all elevated by Kojima's eye for cinematography and the way he builds up to dramatic moments - the long lift as ravens squawk, hinting at the boss battle to come, or Otacon warning of stealth suits gone missing... Where could they be?! I'm glad the rest of the series beefed up the gameplay stakes considerably, but the tight focus of this first game still has the highest narrative stakes for me. An utter classic. On to the next!Side note: does anyone else find Metal Gear Solid faintly terrifying? Perhaps it's the washed out colour palette, the rising tension of its stealth gameplay, or the way the (!) alert sound effect makes me jump out of my skin? No, it's definitely the Codec calls with those sketched character portraits. It's like they're staring right at me.-EdDead Space Remake, PS5 ProDon't turn the lights off!Watch on YouTubeIs the Dead Space remake too scary for me? I'm still working my way through, but I am finding that my play sessions are ending a little earlier than my free time allows, simply because I can't deal with the tension any longer.The game repeatedly uses a mechanic where you must disable power in the room you are in to power an area elsewhere, and this results in the lights going out where you are standing. Every time I know there's going to be a horrendous noise to signify a monster is on its way, probably more than one, and yet every time I am shocked by what happens and end up firing wildly into the air having suddenly forgotten how to use a controller.I've lost count (I lie, I never started counted, but that's not a phrase anyone uses) of the times I've heard a monstrosity behind me, turned to have a look, then turned back to run away, only to have another hideous creature leap out of a vent in front of me. The playbook of scares isn't that big, but it's used so well it really doesn't matter. Tune in next week to find out if I carry on or find something more sedate to play.-Tom OAvowedAvowed has a beautifully over the top fantasy world.Watch on YouTubeThere's a lot to be said for escapism in games. My partner is a big fan of The Witcher 3 - she's mildly obsessed - so I naturally assumed she'd be hyped for Cyberpunk 2077 when it was nearing release. But when we watched a presentation of the game at EGX 2019, held in a small cinema-style room, she came away unimpressed, and I couldn't work out why.It had everything to do with the game's setting, I discovered. Whereas in The Witcher 3 she was transported to a game of wide open fields and thick forests and uncluttered horizons, in Cyberpunk 2077 she felt hemmed in. Cemented in. The city seemed to press in around her. And she didn't like it - that wasn't a place she wanted to be.I think about that a lot these days - I don't know why I hadn't considered it before - and it was front of my mind recently playing Avowed. And I tell you what: that game absolutely nails it. The last time I felt this about a game was probably Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, funnily enough, which shares the same world. It's the spirit of adventure those games capture that makes me giddy. It makes me feel like a little kid again, reading Treasure Island, dreaming of tropical getaways. Fantasising.Now I know exactly what my partner means.-Bertie

Widhi Muttaqien shares a quick and effective method for creating stairs in Blender using the 'Scale Cage' tool, requiring no add-ons or complex math.Source

qualified immunity No penalties even when deputies share a womans nudes after an illegal phone search Government agents have "qualified immunity" for 2019 actions. Nate Anderson Feb 14, 2025 4:03 pm | 68 Once your phone is imaged, the data is out of your control. Credit: Getty Images Once your phone is imaged, the data is out of your control. Credit: Getty Images Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreIn 2019, Haley Olson's life in Grant County, Oregon, was upended when people in town appeared to know about private nude photos that Olson kept on her phone. Worse, some of the people appeared to have seen and shared the photos. The incidents all had some relationship to the local sheriff's department, where Olson was dating one of the deputies.In July, for instance, a stranger in a sheriff's office uniform approached her to say that he had "heard theres some pretty smokin pictures of you going around the sheriffs office." Someone else saw a married couple, both of whom worked for the sheriff's office, looking at Olson's photos on the husband's phone. Other people also approached Olson with knowledge of her recent out-of-state arrest. One person called her "the drug dealer that likes to f--- cops."What was going on?An Idaho traffic stopOlson had recently taken a trip out of state. In Oregon, she ran a marijuana dispensary, which was legal there, but on her trip in January, she was stopped by Idaho state police and arrested for marijuana possession. As part of that arrest, the Idaho state police wanted to search her cell phone, and they asked if she would sign an "Idaho State Police Voluntary Consent to Search." She agreed, and the Idaho police made a complete image of her cell phone.The Idaho charges against Olson were later dropped. Even though she was not prosecuted in Idaho and had committed no illegal activity in Oregon, she came to suspect that her cell phone image had somehow been shared across state lines and given to her local sheriff's office. Olson filed a public records request with Grant County, trying to figure out who had her data and who had been talking about it.She received a reply that same day from Jim Carpenter, who was then the Grant County Attorney and County Prosecutor. Carpenter explained that Glenn Palmer, the Grant County Sheriff, had asked Carpenter to obtain, if possible, a copy of the cell phone image from the Idaho state police. Palmer claimed to be concerned that the deputy whom Olson was dating might somehow be implicated in illegal activity depicted on her phone. (Palmer had first tried to obtain this directly from the Idaho trooper in charge of the case and was told no, which is when he reached out to Carpenter. How Palmer even learned about the arrest is unclear, but Olson had told the Idaho police she was dating a sheriff's deputy in Oregon; somehow, word spread back to the department in Grant County.)So Carpenter requested the cell phone image from the Idaho prosecutor in charge of Olson's case. In his request letter, Carpenter said that the image "will be used only for internal purposes and will not be disseminated to any other agencies or third parties. But when Carpenter received the image in the mail on a flash drive, he reached out to two outside agencies to look through Olson's data. Given that no actual crime in Oregon was being investigated, both agencies said no. (A court later noted that these actions contradicted Carpenter's "letter to the Idaho prosecutor.")Carpenter decided to look through the image himself, using tools from the digital forensics company Cellebrite. The image contained nude photos of both Olson and the deputy she was dating, but no activity that was criminal in Oregon. Carpenter wrote Palmer a letter making this clearthough nothing about the situation really was clear. Palmer would later say that Carpenter had "twice offered [him] the chance to review the extraction" and that Carpenter had said that there were things on the cell phone that 'once you see them, you cant unsee them.'"Carpenter, for his part, insisted that he was never willing to give the flash drive to Palmer or to show him its contents. He told Olson in his letter that he merely "took a quick look at the flash drive," and after finding "content on the flash drive [that] was clearly personal in nature," he made a "complete re-format of the flash drive."And yet somehow, people around town knew about the whole situation and even appeared to possess the pictures. Olson sued both Carpenter and Palmer for unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.The courts ruleThe case has been bouncing through the court system for several years and recently landed at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, one stop below the Supreme Court. The 9th Circuit finally ruled on the case this week (PDF), and judges lambasted the behavior of the Oregon authorities, who had looked at her data without a warrant. The mere fact that Olson had signed a voluntary search form in Idaho was beside the point. "Olsons consent in Idaho did not extend to a search by a different law enforcement agency, in another state," wrote the court in its opinion, "and the search did not fall into any exception to the warrant requirement."The court noted that the case "presents a troubling example of the intrusion on Fourth Amendment rights that can occur with respect to highly sensitive cell phone data. More specifically, this circumstance involved a law enforcement agency accessing highly sensitive cell phone data from another jurisdiction in the absence of a warrant, consent, or even any investigation or suspicion of criminal activity on the part of a suspect."Whatever had actually happened with Olson's data, the Oregon authorities had no right to look through it simply because the police chief was "curious" about it or because he wanted to go on a warrantless fishing expedition to see if one of his deputies was involved in anything nefarious. And Carpenter's search was "highly irregular," the court noted, even by his own standards. The 9th Circuit concluded that the situation was, in fact, a troubling violation of the Fourth Amendment.Sweet vindication for Olson? Not quite. Despite its ruling, the court found that Sheriff Palmer was exempt from penalties because he had allegedly not seen the images, nor had he conducted the searchthat was Carpenter, the local prosecutor.However, Carpenter was found to have "qualified immunity" from prosecution as a government employee because, although he violated Olson's Fourth Amendment rights, the law remained unclear in 2019. This case was slightly more complicated than a garden-variety warrantless search because Olson had voluntarily renounced some rights over in Idaho, and it was at least arguable at the time that this might have extended to other searches of the cell phone image for other reasons.The 9th Circuit issued clarifying guidance in this area, saying that further searches of cell phones for unrelated reasons do, in fact, require a warrant, but all three judges declined to issue any penalties against Carpenter for his 2019 actions.As for how Olson's photos were shared around town, the 9th Circuit admits that it simply doesn't know what happened and can do little about it.Local news reports suggest that the Grant County Sheriff's Department has had repeated experience in dealing with these kinds of lurid situations. The Oregonian notes that the sheriff's deputy who Olson was dating was fired in 2019 "after his arrest on alleged assault and sex abuse complaints," but the deputy was acquitted in court of all charges. He then "argued in a federal whistleblower complaint that [Sheriff] Palmer retaliated against him for reporting misconduct involving another sheriffs deputy, who was the wife of Palmers undersheriff." He eventually won a $1.3 million payout from Grant County and the state of Oregon.Nate AndersonDeputy EditorNate AndersonDeputy Editor Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica. His most recent book is In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, which is much funnier than it sounds. 68 Comments

Japanese chemical company Asahi Kaseis North American subsidiary has stopped developing, marketing, and selling its 3D printing filaments.Asahi Kasei Plastics North America (APNA) entered the FDM materials market in October 2023 with the launch of filaments made from XYRON, its modified polyphenylene ether (mPPE) resin. The product line later expanded to include Thermylene, APNAs line of polypropylene (PP) compounds.However, the Michigan-based subsidiary has now exited the filament market. According to an Asahi Kasei spokesperson, this decision was made following an internal business decision.While customers will no longer be able to access APNAs line of filaments, the American business will continue to offer its Thermylene 3D printing pellet grades. These glass-reinforced materials feature high strength, stiffness, and heat resistance for automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications.Asahis spokesperson assured me that APNAs decision has not affected the companys other operations. The Japanese multinational will continue offering its Cellulose Nano Fiber (CNF)-reinforced polyamide materials for additive manufacturing.Additionally, Asahi Kasei is expanding its reach through a partnership with Italian materials manufacturer Aquafil S.p.A. Signed last October, the memorandum of understanding will see the two companies develop a new 3D printing filament for automotive and aeronautical applications.APNA headquarters in Fowlerville, MI. Photo via Asahi Kasei.Asahi Kasei Plastics North America ends filament salesAsahi Kasei decided to enter the 3D printing filament market in 2023 to capitalize on what ANPA President and Chief Operating Officer Todd Glogovsky called a rapidly growing field. During the announcement, he added that the North American business possessed the people and skillset to develop, enhance, and exceed the needs of hobbyists and OEMs alike.The plastics specialist initially presented a roadmap that promised customers a versatile and long-term commitment in the 3D printing sector. It initially sought to target sales in the North American market which would springboard a global expansion.ANPA began by trialing its XYRON filament, which offered low warpage, high dimensional stability, heat resistance, electrical insulation, and impact strength. This was followed by a Thermylene filament boasting high tensile strength, chemical resistance, creep resistance, and elevated temperature performance.During the official filament announcement, the North American business also outlined plans to advance resources through computer-aided engineering (CAE). This sought to build on the companys CAE technical services for the engineering plastics market.2023 also saw Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) invest in Israeli 3D printing software firm CASTOR Technologies Ltd. Through this move, the Japanese conglomerate is working to expand its CAE capabilities while enhancing automation and advanced simulations. There is no indication that Asahi is cutting back on its digital efforts within the additive manufacturing space.Additionally, although ANPA is exiting the 3D printing filament market, this is not the end of Asahi Kaseis FDM material sales. Through its new partnership with Aquafil, the firm is working to combine its CNF formulation with the Italian entitys ECONYL Polymer chemically recycled PA6 to create a new filament.The resulting CNF/ECONYL Polymer compound will reportedly feature high formability and strength for 3D printing applications. It has already been showcased at last years Fakuma plastics processing expo and the Formnext 2024 additive manufacturing trade show. According to Asahi Kasei, trial sales of the new 3D printing filament will begin in the EU, US, and Japan in Q3 2025.Asahi Kaseis CNF 3D printing filament. Photo via Asahi KaseiCompanies exit the 3D printing spaceBusiness exits are nothing new in the global 3D printing market. Last year, global chemical production company BASF exited the 3D printing industry after its 3D printing business, BASF Forward AM, was carved out into an independent company.Forward AMs carve-out came after the businesss leadership, led by CEO Martin Back, purchased BASFs full 3D printing portfolio. Having retained its IP and supply chain, the entity expressed its intent to meet future demand and fulfill its contractual obligations. However, following the news that insolvency proceedings had commenced towards the end of 2024, Forward AM ceased US operations last month. The firm has since partnered with RP America, a distributor and service provider, to ensure ongoing product availability and on-site support for customers in the country.Elsewhere, 2023 saw Global print and digital document corporation Xerox sell its additive manufacturing business unit, Elem Additive Solutions. This was purchased by ADDiTEC, a US-based metal 3D printer developer. Xeroxs decision to exit the AM space came amid an effort to refocus strategic priorities and investments onto its core print, IT, and digital service capabilities.Who won the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards?Subscribe to the 3D Printing Industry newsletter to keep up with the latest 3D printing news.You can also follow us on LinkedIn, and subscribe to the 3D Printing Industry Youtube channel to access more exclusive content.Featured image shows APNAs headquarters in Fowlerville, MI. Photo via Asahi Kasei.

Rape kits are used to collect evidence of sexual assault for testingJaclyn Nash/National Museum of American HistoryThe Secret History of the Rape KitPagan Kennedy (Vintage Books)While writing Inventology, a book on inventions that create social change and the people behind them, Pagan Kennedy became fascinated by what she describes as a piece of technology designed to hold men accountable for brutalizing women: the rape kit.But who invented it? Newspaper reports credited Chicago police sergeant Louis R. Vitullo at the citys crime lab, but a few accounts mentioned a woman he collaborated with. Kennedy investigated, and

Gen Xers are moving to retirement hot spots for better housing, lower prices, and warmer weather.Census data shows a rise in Gen X movers in Florida, central Texas, north Georgia, and Tennessee.Movers told BI they sought lower costs and taxes but faced high insurance and utility bills.Gainfully employed Gen Xers are packing their bags for retirement hot spots.They're not foregoing the daily grind; instead, 45- to 60-year-olds are increasingly moving their families to warmer locales to take advantage of abundant housing, sunshine, and lower taxes.Matt Hickman wanted to live somewhere with easy ocean access, good weather, and vibes that echoed his native California. In April 2020, the 46-year-old and his family moved to Orlando, which he said was more affordable than where they had been living in Colorado; a five-bedroom house cost around $90 a foot."I said, 'You know what? If we move now in our forties, we can be set up so that we'll have our house halfway paid off by the time we get close to retirement, and we'll have beaten all the baby boomers who are going to move down to Florida and make it more expensive,'" Hickman said.Have you recently moved to a new state or country? Please fill out this quick form.Many in his generation seem to be on the same page. An analysis of Census data from 2020 to 2023, exclusively shared previously with BI by University of Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard, shows that many counties in the south experienced large net increases in movers ages 45 to 54, particularly in Florida, central Texas, north Georgia, and Tennessee. Many New England, Missouri, and Idaho counties also experienced large increases. Meanwhile, much of California, the Midwest, and the Deep South such as Louisiana and Mississippi were in the red.Some of the most popular counties for Gen Xers were those with older populations living in retirement communities Gen Xers moved to "retirement destination" counties at a net rate of 5.1% between 2020 and 2023, compared to the US growth rate of 1.6%. Lombard suspected this trend was due to ample available housing in these areas and the generation's rising savings.In interviews with half a dozen Gen Xers who moved further south, most said they appreciated the lower cost of living, slower pace of life, and work opportunities. Still, some said they hated the weather, paid exorbitant insurance premiums, or didn't enjoy the politics.Hickman's family liked Florida for a time. They landed in a predominantly 55-and-up community, visited a theme park often, and went to the beach six months of the year, but the humidity started to weigh on them. Plus, their homeowners' insurance was $3,500 a year, property taxes soared, and they spent hundreds a month on utilities. As expenses and bugs piled up, they decided it was time for another change.Hickman and his family landed in Atlanta, where they found a younger community along with cheaper utility and insurance bills.Moving south to save money, but not everything is cheaperMany movers told BI they moved south to save more in preparation for retirement, though some discovered prices are, in some cases, much higher.Randy Foster, a music promoter, lived all over the Eastern Seabord but moved to Seattle in 2015. With rising prices in his area and nine months of no sun a year, he wanted to move south.After a recent divorce, Foster, 55, settled in Florida's Bradenton-Sarasota area in 2022, where his cost of living fell dramatically. Though he now has a car in Florida, he estimates he's saved about 30% compared to Seattle. Randy Foster recently moved from Washington to Florida. Randy Foster "I decided that Florida offered more opportunity, more freedom for me, more freedom to choose," Foster said. "I spent a heck of a lot less on rent and all of my bills now than I did in Seattle."While he paid $3,000 monthly for a three-bedroom Seattle apartment, he pays about $2,000 in Florida for a four-bedroom house with a yard. His electricity bill is about 50% more in Florida, though his other utilities stayed consistent.He said he enjoys earning $160,000 annually in a state with no individual income tax. Though he said he only has about $30,000 saved, as he hasn't prioritized his retirement planning until recently, he believes he can continue saving more in Florida.Escaping high taxesSome movers said they left for Southern states with fewer taxes and better business environments.Tracy Rockney, 57, worked in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs and built a consulting firm. The mother of three considered some southern states when deciding to leave Illinois but found Florida unappealing due to its humidity, hurricanes, and aging populations in the areas they considered. Her husband's college roommate encouraged them to move to Dallas-Fort Worth. Tracy Rockney recently moved from Illinois to Texas. Tracy Rockney "We would rather live a community where there's a mix of races and cultures and ages," Rockney said.In 2020, she moved to a Dallas suburb with her retired husband and their youngest daughter to limit her tax liability Texas has 0% state income tax and to improve her daughter's education quality. She sold the Illinois home for $795,000 and bought her current Texas home for about $1.1 million.She's found the healthcare options better in Texas, and she said prices are generally lower than Illinois'. Rockney sold her business in August 2022 and left her most recent role as an executive vice president in late 2024.She's appreciated lower grocery prices, though her water bill skyrocketed to $150 monthly. Landscaping costs are "really expensive," for which she budgets between $5,000 and $10,000 annually.She appreciates Texas' many outdoor activities, and her husband is the youngest person in his skydiving group. She said Texas' business-friendly environment may help her when she starts up new entrepreneurial ventures."We kick ourselves and say we wish we'd done this move sooner," Rockney said. "I wish I'd done it maybe when starting my business in 2015."Taking advantage of remote workSome movers told BI they left the commotion of busier, more expensive cities for more rural areas while working remotely.Elisa Suetake, 51, is hovering somewhere between retirement and work.Suetake and her husband spent six years in San Jose, working in Silicon Valley. The couple would go to Hawaii three to four times a year but thought they could never work from there without getting cabin fever.The pandemic, however, proved that wrong. In July 2021, they moved to Maui, tripling their property size for just $250,000 more than their San Jose home.Their new property has a main house with five bedrooms, with an attached ADU, and there's an additional smaller structure with three bedrooms. They plan on remodeling and renting out the smaller house while keeping the attached apartment for guests.Suetake said that neither she nor her husband are planning on retiring traditionally they'll never stop working, but they will stop working for someone else."We're never bored. We're always learning something," Suetake said. "It's just that we don't have a dedicated income stream from a company."

Trump's plan to reshape the federal workforce is underway.Some federal workers told BI they voted for Trump thinking he would help the economy and struggling Americans.While they support cutting government waste, some don't think all federal workers should be targeted.Many federal workers have expressed outrage and despair at President Donald Trump's workforce mandates but what about those who filled in the bubble next to his name on the ballot?"I voted for Trump. I wanted to see some positive change," a federal employee of 17 years told Business Insider, adding that they didn't know that change would put them at risk of losing their job.While some of the hot-button issues Trump is tackling, like eliminating DEI initiatives and cutting spending, may resonate with right-leaning workers, policies like remote work and cutting the government's head count haven't traditionally been partisan matters.As of Thursday, about75,000 federal employees had accepted the President'sbuyout offer. That's about 3.75% of the federal workforce, inching closer to the White House's goal of reducing the federal staff count by 5% to 10%.Four federal employees who say they voted for Trump spoke to Business Insider about their feelings on Trump's approach to the federal workforce. BI granted their requests for anonymity and verified their identities.Trump voters said they support the cost-cutting missionWhile the federal workers BI spoke with don't fully support certain policies affecting them, some stand by the overall mission to reduce government waste.One federal worker told BI that they don't understand why some government agencies have so many employees."They're uncovering a lot of waste and abuse there," the worker said about DOGE. "I just can't believe some of the stuff that they're finding which is a total waste of taxpayer money."Elon Musk, who leads DOGE a Trump-created commission aimed at slashing government waste has vowed to target a range of existing federal programs, including expired spending authorization"This is the reason why people voted for Trump," the worker told BI. "Because what is the government doing? Why aren't they forthcoming? Why? People want answers."While the worker said they understand why some people may be annoyed to return to the office full-time, they said: "Somebody needs to put their foot down."Another federal worker said they disagree with focusing on federal workers without better understanding the various programs and the need for federal employees to keep them going. That said, they see value in looking at where money is being spent, and they're overall supportive of Trump.For example, the worker said they support the administration's approach with the US Agency for International Development. Trump and Musk have both called USAID out for wastefulness and supporting liberal causes. A federal judge blocked Trump's funding freeze on the agency and his attempt to put thousands of workers on leave.USAID spent $32.5 billion in global aid in 2024. About a quarter of the money went toward humanitarian efforts, another quarter to health and population initiatives, and additional funds were directed toward governance and administrative expenses."I think overall we're going to end up better off with him as a president," they said.Some had concerns about targeting the federal workforceThe 17-year federal employee said they voted for Trump thinking he would help the economy and struggling Americans. Now, the worker said they feel like the president is making things worse by putting federal workers' livelihoods at risk."Do Trump and Musk know the whole situation of every federal building? I don't think they're making proper choices," the worker said.They added that while they agree with Trump's goal to cut government waste, they don't agree that cutting the federal workforce and requiring all employees to return to the office full time is an effective approach.Another federal worker who said they voted for Trump twice "had hope that he would fulfill his promises," but that hope disappeared after the administration's deferred resignation offers. The Office of Personnel Management offered federal employees the option to resign and receive pay through September, but this offer is now on pause due to ongoing litigation.One worker said the way they've gone about the federal workforce changes is a "little disconcerting." The worker said while they understand Musk is only there for so long, it seems like they're "getting rid of people very quickly."The worker also has concerns about returning to work in person because they moved out of DC. The worker said it would be a financial burden to return to the office.A federal worker said they reached out to their senators and congressman and told them that "demonizing the federal workforce is not good." They said federal workers have performance reviews, meet with supervisors, and act in compliance with their mission."Don't take it out on us just because of the bad behavior of the prior administration," the worker told BI, adding that they haven't changed their stance on supporting Trump because "it shouldn't have come to this."Got a tip or anything you'd like to share? Reach out securely on Signal at asheffey.97 or via email at asheffey@businessinsider.com or aaltchek@businessinsider.com.