This is very good on several fronts, and also I want to underscore the bit about automation here: a big thread running through what’s happening in both tech and government right now is a concerted effort to deskill workers.

Why Meta's bleak 'AI vision' is winning out

And why OpenAI's position looks more precarious by the day

“I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.”

Maven Productions

Letter to a Young Activist — Maven Productions

“Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned a...

Really important detail in this piece from an anon OPM employee: if you do not already have your coworker’s mobile numbers, or haven’t set up a secure backchannel to talk, do it now.

Slate Magazine

I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.

We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

If there are any gov workers out there who are looking for a sidekick to sort out what to do from here, my door is open and the sliding scale is there for you:

everything changes

Fee model. | everything changes

A successful coaching engagement is a reciprocal relationship in which each of us invests our time, attention, and resources. We commit to each oth...

That goes for any trans/nb/queer folks as well. Work is so often terrible, but it's also a place of organization, collaboration, reciprocity, sabotage! Whatever happens from here, workers will be part of it, and I'm ready and eager to walk alongside you.

Love and solidarity to the folks at 18f getting sucked into this horrible void. If anyone needs a sympathetic ear to talk out what to do from here, my door is open.

404 Media

GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.