What kind of data is Duolingo amassing that anyone would care about? just checked the permissions, and it doesn’t have anything enabled which would not be necessary for it to function. Unless the government is interested in my mangled pronunciations of foreign words?

I thought the same thing. Then I thought about how powerful of a visual it would have been for each one of them, in turn, to cause a disruption and be escorted out. Let the cameras pan over a half filled chamber after 2 hours of meticulous protesting. That image would be in history books 100 years from now, assuming we all survive the next 4.

I sincerely hope many more employees than they anticipate avail themselves of this opportunity.

You must have missed the details in the article. OPM has listed on their website under ‘fork’. The deadline for acceptance is 6 Feb, and the resignation will be effective at the end of September. There is no back and forth with HR; you simply reply to their email with the word ‘resign’ or you don’t and remain employed until the loyalty police come around.

He only issued a TRO, though. I am unfortunately confident they will find a way around this.