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It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.

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It needs maximium visibility fast...

We do. Unrelatedly (except in Dirk Gently sense), could you repost?

Giving govt employee SSNs/info to non-staff (Musk) violates 5 USC 552a, with penalty of $1000 per person. We're building case. Govt. emps can contact me: Mark Lemley bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Giving access to SSNs+ on govt employees to non-staff (eg Musk) is violation of 5 USC 552a, & carries penalty of $1000 per person for data breached.
We're building a case. Govt employees wanting to join, contact me directly. Mark Lemley bsky.app/profile/mark...
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"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.

Hi, Jonathan!

We're seeing this same short-sightedness in analysis of the 2024 box office, which sort of elides the months-long strike as a factor. If the studios had not spent months trying to break the unions only to end up giving them most of what they wanted, the 2024 release sked would be, uhhh, BETTER.

I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.