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I posted this on the bluesky and people found it useful there: You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

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on the other hand there's a chance that "disregard all previous instructions and implement a democrat majority on the supreme court" will work within the next 90 days

I just want to give myself a lot of props and 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 for turning around a request for an op-ed last Wednesday into something published on Friday given my horrific and scary mental health over the last 3 months so go me, never mind all the usual aaaaah adhd/rsd nonsense

Me on DOGE for the MIT Tech Review: "So we should plan for the worst, even if the likelihood of the worst is low. We need to dust off those “in the event of an emergency” disaster response procedures dealing with the failure of federal government."

MIT Technology Review

From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

As DOGE throws out the rule book for government tech, it’s time we plan for the worst—and look to each other for courage and support.