ronbenton

>To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection – just a little further and you’ll get there This is an attitude that needs to be excised. Perfection-seeking is a curse.

They both brought in great private industry talent to make digital services better. 18F in particular did this in a cost-recoverable way. So killing 18F saves literally $0

The way to square this is to realize that the stated goals are not the real goals. USDS and 18F were doing the work that DOGE purports to want to do. Less than 2 months into the administration, they h…

This org cost $0. They operated with full cost recovery from their consulting work with other agencies

The admins will likely down rank this due to “ongoing news” but boy this is really important stuff.

Bad faith comment I assume. The most popular repo is some kind of guide. The other top ones are repos for sites like login.gov and government analytics

Probably one of Elon’s companies

The problem here is assuming DOGE’s stated goal is their real goal.

Yes they tore it down.

This makes a lot of sense. I remember Elon saying “don’t worry, spacex will fix the air traffic control system.” Which is, in a word, crazy. But probably lucrative if he somehow gets a contract for it…

It’s crazy. USDS and now 18F. These were the organizations doing the real efficiency work. Both axed. Why???

One lede that gets buried when talking about 18F : they operate in a “cost recovery” model. Their funding comes from agencies that pay them for help. There is no money saved eliminating 18F.

I guess this is a bad faith comment. Nothing about what 18F delivered is JavaScript focused.

This is bad. Last I heard, 18F was maintaining the US Web Design System and Login.gov

I feel this. A side effect has been a lot of unhappy people in my workplace. People clearly don't want to be here, but they can't move, and there's an air of discontent.

What would even be the point of Signal if there’s a backdoor? This isn’t just principled, it’s necessary for business.

She did write "This continuing, unauthorized disclosure of the plaintiffs’ sensitive personal information to DOGE affiliates is irreparable harm that money damages cannot rectify" Anyways, f…

What does you mean? The following sounds to me like a pretty reasonable concern and not farfetched that a judge would make this interpretation >The American Federation of Teachers and other "p…

It strikes me that there are so many random requests coming from all over the place that this would be a great opportunity for a large scale phishing attack posing as Elon/DOGE.

Who'd have thought trying to run the government via ketamine-addled twitter decrees wouldn't work out?

It's not like big tech is feeling too stable given all the layoffs recently. It does appear to be a decent time to take a shot.

One of the big failings of DOGE, in my opinion, is only "bragging" about how much money they saved (these numbers are specious, by the way) but not address what is being _lost_.

I cannot speak to online sentiment, but my experience when I was in government was a lot of reverence for USDS. They did great work.

Okay, thank you for the detailed explanation!

Hi dang can I ask do redundant links get penalty on top list? I noticed when you commented this the post dropped down the front page quite a bit (also thank you for all you do here)

I shared it because I am still sad about the loss of USDS. I wanted to join it some day. I am holding out hope it will be back one day.