This is tragic. Anyone who was familiar with 18F knows those were some of the real heroes of government, who helped make government tech/digital services better for the public.
They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.
They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.
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Ryan Mac 🙃
18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.
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Curious if this will impact the rollout that is supposed to start later this month. Last I heard, SEC still hadn’t worked out the mechanics for Form 144 filings, among other things.
China and Russia seem to smell an opportunity.
Those agencies don’t simply say “be bad for money” - they have a long process of cultivating people just as CIA does in other countries.
The whole thing is a Musk scam to get all the contracts.
it's amazing to see the insane priorities of these people...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-pardon-baseball-great-pete-rose-2025-03-01/
Yet these fucknuts are just running rampant on critical systems and teams with no care whatsoever.
The gerontocracy’s tech-illiteracy is at least partly to blame.