Claire B

Where my coxswains at? 🚣🚣‍♀️🚣‍♂️

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On the one hand this is all very funny but on the other hand I wish it had happened before the government was dismantled and all my friends got fired.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

The Assault on Oversight in the Executive Branch Not too many people outside of government understand how many laws are enforced entirely through oversight. The DOGE/Project 2025 plan has subverted these norms for its own ends.

Trying to understand how the puzzle pieces fit together? @jacobharr.is brilliantly shows how attacks on oversight functions, the things that were designed to actually make government efficient and accountable, allowed the administration to destroy so much so fast. jacobharr.is/personal/ass...

If you've worked with me, you've most certainly heard me quote @martinfowler.com / Phil Karlton: 'There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.' Still true. Appreciate his tip of the hat to the former 18F team and their legacy @alt18f.bsky.social

one of the core questions of naive government tech is "why can't we just...?" & another is "what could go wrong...?"

addressing "wcwj..." earnestly will usually give you a lot of good answers to "wcgw..." & I recommend it

hard to truly improve systems w/o understanding why they are as they are

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Trying to make sense of the elimination of 18F Former GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini discusses the termination of the GSA tech team.

“There was a real deep philosophy behind the work that [18F was] doing, a real deep sense of intentionality, and a real deep commitment to delivering the best possible outcome for the American taxpayer.” (Side note: Our commitment still stands. 🇺🇸)

Screenshot of beta.weather.gov with an announcement info box saying "beta.weather.gov has been deactivated until further notice." The message continues by mentioning "This page has been deactivated...due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves the project without the resources required to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance."

This is what happens when 18F goes away: beta.weather.gov has been deactivated, “due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves this project without the resources to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance.”
18f.org/projects/#:~...

Who’s working on DOGE related trackers? So far I'm aware of: 

- cancelled contracts: app.g2xchange.com/doge-tracker

- data rescue project: www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
- federal cuts tracker map: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- layoff tracker: layoffs.fyi

Long Jokes Are Good More of them, please.

Do you listen to the podcast Good One? Had a great interview with Kyle about that special www.vulture.com/article/kyle...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Elon Musk Says Government Needs Innovation. his Former Employees Disagree Moving fast and breaking things—as Musk did at Twitter—doesn’t work as well when you're disrupting the delivery of vital public services.

“Musk’s ability to access the government and its inner workings gives the entrepreneur ‘a second, and much larger, batch of broken eggs—people, lives, careers—to make another omelette that’s stuffed with shit,’” … per a former Twitter engineer.

www.inc.com/chris-stokel...

18F Guides A central resource for all 18F guides and methods


You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/

What made 18F effective is that it was a team of government employees advising govt teams. Yes, it’s true that many (but not all) came into govt service from the private sector. But we inherited a lot of trust from the agencies that worked with us specifically because we were fellow feds. 2/

There might be a hat to lose in there, if you wear them.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Moments of joy today:
- A bulldog wearing a red sweater
- Finding our that @theonion.com buying infowars was for real life and not just, ya know, an onion article
- eating perfect, just made churros out of the bag while walking in the rain