trump: i dont get it sam altman: what dont you get? trump: if you build agi, doesnt that get rid of all jobs? sam altman: no honey…thats not how it works trump: oh. okay. sam altman: trump: sam? sam altman: yes? trump: how does it work? sam altman: well. think

Heyo! My new Department of Government Efficiency tracking podcast WatchCats is live on YouTube! Come join up if you want to to chat about the DOGE news of the day. youtube.com/watch?v=mzy0h8…

At this rate, the pixels of the “You are not… serious people” GIF will be burned into my monitor by July 4th.

Once power forms, it rarely concedes. Moved our schedule around in order to meet the moment that Department of Government Efficiency is creating. In this episode, we talk to Prof. Henry Farrell about his new post on Lawfare and how Elon Musk is turning the US's weaponized interdependence strategy on itself.

a play in four acts

After that "diplomacy" train wreck, Turkey has the opportunity to make the biggest power grab since the conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

Butchering 18F definitively proves that these reforms are nothing but sabotage. For those not aware, 18F was building the future of government tech using citizen-first principles. Direct tax filing, design and auth systems. And now it’s gone. 18f.org

18F was RIF'd over the weekend and the website deleted. Because, of course it was. It was the most obvious thing in the world for DOGE to do. The main explainer I'm seeing at the moment is that 18F (and what was left of the *real* USDS) is being removed because they proved

In ancient Rome, the Consul would have decided to call off the invasion after such a bad omen

1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything

While I didn't expect the global future to basically be about the ending to Mass Effect 3, I can't say I'm surprised.