Jules

Daaaamn

This is very fucking pretty holy shit

This a a quick reminder that beyond all the bullshit, on a fundamental level, public infrastructure is both necessary and beautiful. Behold this gorgeous bridge. Go fucking birds.

I appreciate Chicago and you very much.

Then, I got really fucking mad and I have never stopped being mad. I literally got into govtech because of this person. I literally taught myself to code powered by how much hate I have for this man. Fuck. The. Cooch. As a daughter of the commonwealth- Fuck. This. Grifter. I will never forget.

No. No. No. I was a doctoral student at W&M and also working in a DV shelter. I had families with homes promised. But then when the cooch, elected 2010, slashed so much I had to turn my weeping clients away from apartments I’d promised them, and I lost the funding for my degree.

Arm rill hairy and old

😩 they literally have also always gotten me, I have no record player but like 500 records, I have no mouth but I must scream

I know this band. These accusations are credible. Fuck them. Thank you.

The IRS, USDS, and 18F teams were great—they did all the real work, while a bunch of us just worked to protect them. It was great work by everybody.

If not friend, why friend shaped?

I have done this math and come to the same conclusion. You could get a lil cabin for like a grand, and it would be no faster. Theoretically you could ride a series of horses, pony express style, and it would be faster but with less snacks.

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

INTRODUCTION 1. Defendant Elon Musk is not, legally, the President of the United States, nor is he a federal elected official of any kind. And Mr. Musk is not a Senate-confirmed officer of the United States. But he and his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)—not, in fact, a federal executive department—are lawlessly and unconstitutionally wielding sweeping power across the executive branch. As Mr. Musk and DOGE lawlessly seize power over large swaths of federal spending, decimate the federal workforce, and dismantle federal agencies, they are severely harming, and threatening further imminent harm, to everyday Americans.

This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

Really smart move here.

1 reason @wired.com is leading is b/c they have long understood that tech is the infrastructure of *everything* & as a result is *the* invisible lever of power.

Control the infrastructure & you control everything.

The entire policy establishment (gov, media, academia) is still catching up to this.

I think it's freeing to know that I casually misunderstand a million things that I don't have specific domain knowledge about. I don't get why some people cling so hard to confident casual beliefs they hold about stuff they don't know that well. There's nothing wrong with updating your priors.

thank you thank you thank you for saying this, and most of all thank you for doing this, and for everything you've done. Every single one of these points resonated in my bones.

Thank you for this

"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold