This past week or so at US Treasury reminds me of Jonathan Zittrain's warnings re: the "perfect enforcement" possibilities embedded in connective technologies. These can move faster than any legal apparatus. DOGE is trying to convert stable political infrastructures into contingent software.
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Nathan Tankus
CNN with an absolutely gigantic story:
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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