Ethan Marcotte, who is one of the most principled and thoughtful people I have ever known and also a dear friend, has resigned from his job at 18F after being asked to meet with shadowy gov-dismantlers. The whole post is worth reading. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/ - ThreadSky

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy • 5 days ago

Ethan Marcotte, who is one of the most principled and thoughtful people I have ever known and also a dear friend, has resigned from his job at 18F after being asked to meet with shadowy gov-dismantlers. The whole post is worth reading.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/

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maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

https://mas.to/@kissane 18F was doing work to actually make government agencies work better for people. That’s not allowed now.

NoRomBasic.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

https://mas.to/@kissane The really frustrating thing is 18F and other groups like it in Public Service were beginning to really move the tech needle. As a state agency CIO (and someone who might have a history of being an occasional heretic myself), I have had the honor of watching a growing group of […]

savasavasava.bsky.social•4 days ago

@ethanmarcotte.com <3

ethanmarcotte.com•4 days ago

💜💜😭

foxxtrot.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

https://mas.to/@kissane Before all this, I'd been considering 18F. Having been in the civil service before, this gutting of it is infuriating.

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

The losses we are going through are so vast and so crushing and I can look at the data all day and just seethe but the personal accounts make me feel the grief.

Beggarmidas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

https://mas.to/@kissane This is a mistake. It just speeds the process of turning everyone in government into loyalists. When it goes from couping the government to BEING the government. His principles wont mean a damn thing now.. It's a symbolic gesture no one will give a damn about when the coup starts […]

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

https://mastodon.social/@Beggarmidas You don’t understand any of the labor law or context around this, including things carefully explained in the post.

Which, whatever, people don’t read. But launching into a zero-context, high-certainty tirade about what a specific federal worker should have done differently based […]

Itchy.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

https://mas.to/@kissane

💥

"I’m also angry at what was taken from me. At what’s being taken from all of us. I’ve watched a wonderful job, a wonderful place to work, a wonderful team get pulled apart by rich men in ill-fitting suits, each of them parroting the same talking points around “realignment” and […]

martinicat.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

https://mas.to/@kissane I remember reading Ethan's book back when I was redesigning for mobile. 👍👍🍸😺

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