Have mentioned this before, but the parallels with election administration are really striking: complex systems require a lot of specific knowledge. Outsiders immediately assume fraud to explain the stuff they don't understand rather than talking to someone who does. - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Have mentioned this before, but the parallels with election administration are really striking: complex systems require a lot of specific knowledge.
Outsiders immediately assume fraud to explain the stuff they don't understand rather than talking to someone who does.

Reposted from Philip Bump

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.

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lakeview2.bsky.social•8 days ago

The no nothings of the team is breathtaking. The day of reckoning will come meanwhile Fed employees who know what they are doing are being let go, fired etc in a whirlwind of chaos.
I going out on a limb: beware the “ides of March “, Musk and wunderkids.

ltorgana.bsky.social•8 days ago

!! Holy shit!! I hope some MSM take the time to pause on the details you’re flagging here.

minkysma.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ok. But they are not actually looking for fraud, so this is moot.

whpshw.bsky.social•7 days ago

We are paying the price for an entire generation of ppl who grew up reading summaries online and thinking that is sufficient to understand complex systems because they’ve been told their whole lives they’re such smart, clever little boys.

deblavoy.bsky.social•7 days ago

This exactly. Expertise matters. Denying it destroys any value in any thing.

chiangku.me•8 days ago

Massive dunning Kruger effect by musk and doge

jedgarnaut.bsky.social•7 days ago

He came in and immediately fucked up Twitter, orders of magnitude smaller and less complex than the federal government

300ps.bsky.social•8 days ago

COBOL for Dummies was out of print sorry

randyfromm.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not just “talking to” but LISTENING to.

This is the origin story for conspiracy theories.

migao.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm pretty sure they don't know COBOL. Probably all doing Python.

politicallyint.bsky.social•8 days ago

"Outsiders immediately assume fraud to explain the stuff they don't understand rather than talking to someone who does."

That sums up why they don't trust vaccines, 911, the moon landings, the price of eggs...

dadbeastlarge.bsky.social•8 days ago

This country could be taken over so easily. Hang on. I guess it already has.

marjhalperin.bsky.social•8 days ago

Or, more likely, they DO know but are struggling to find actual fraud so they use this fake stuff.

beckybee.bsky.social•8 days ago

So true.

DC Bar Discipline Committee Hearing: Mr. Giuliani, do you really think a man who was 120 years old voted in the last election?

mtvee.bsky.social•8 days ago

He can’t code. He has proved that on X many times

imgregory.bsky.social•7 days ago

Reminds us of Project 2025 where those outside of the bureaucracy (government is required to be a bureaucracy), due to size/complexity & have no idea how it works So by shrinking it they can get their head around walking & chewing gum simultaneously. The complexity can't be changed, only understood.

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