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Dad, startup guy. Ideas matter. Design matters. It's about we, not me. hachyderm.io/@pevohr
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1/ Really recommend reading this from @propublica.org, one of the more detailed looks at how DOGE has attempted to use AI to go after government contracts. And below, I recommend further reading.

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

Many of the federal workers being forced out by Trump are Black women who spent decades building a career of government service, only to see those careers shattered in a sudden purge. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

More on how science is not simply about plucking facts from the air [2017]: "which hypotheses we consider & how we test them shapes what facts we have the capacity to discover, & also depends on what we think we already know. All hypotheses emerge from assumptions, whether we recognize them or not"

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Post-Kuhn, the ways scientists update their priors can foster radical tolerance Whereas engineers notions of tolerance -- smoothing over messy details -- can leave them prone to very different kinds of radicalization ( This whole 🧵 is 🔥, but it gets especially spicy around here )

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Stellar #InformationDesign by @jacobharr.is to help folks navigate various facets of a complex situation: dogetrack.info/agencies/usaid dogetrack.info/people/wreck... Start anywhere (person, agency, system), + click around to build a sense of who's doing what where when

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Sharing what we've learned is our idea of efficiency, so we've been working to recover 18F resources for the public. You can still find our guides at guides.18f.org.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"When asked about America’s deportation of Dr. Qian, the former Navy secretary Dan Kimball said, 'It was the stupidest thing this country ever did.'" An America that welcomes immigrants who love this country and give it everything they've got is infinitely stronger than one that relies on inertia.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely second this. @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing vital work documenting the systematic dismantling of federal expertise. If you're looking for a way to act on this, see this guide on submitting public comments against politicization of public services.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Paving the way for Minitrue (assuming the courts let him get away with this)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Who are the 7% of Americans who dislike the Park Service? Are they poachers? Did a ranger at Yosemite stumble upon their grow op? Can the NYT surpass the page count of War and Peace writing diner profiles on these folks, too? I’m curious.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

If one wanted to turn the US Forest Service into a completely commodity-driven, straw-man enterprise that is incapable of stewarding public lands, one of the highest items on the to-do list would be to eliminate the USFS research branch... 🌏

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

When an obsessive cellist REALLY wants to know their vintage instrument from the inside Details for the technically inclined:

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

Just gonna keep ringing this bell: this is what I want to see *every campaign look like.* Mutual aid as campaigning is brilliant. Win or lose, the community wins. It's not just smart politics, it's GOOD politics.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Detailed 🧵 on the shocking request to massively slash legally-mandated NSF funding for training new scientists

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Dear #LazySky, if this already exists because someone like @simonwillison.net built it, please let me know gently If not, what should it be called? Not code golf, because that focused on size. Nor whatever those old school algorithm/language efficiency shootouts got renamed to. But...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Thought experiment: If sharing prompts (rather than code) becomes common practice, then the choice of which LLM you're feeding it to matters greatly Will two people feeding the same prompt to different LLMs generate similar results? What if you're feeding the same LLM? How will you know? /1

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The what? Oh.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you have a choice of outdoorsy destinations, + advice to just try a "stupid mental health walk" sounds too vague ... ... how about a more tailored topographic intervention?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments