superwuster.bsky.social
Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Author of "The Curse of Bigness," "The Attention Merchants"
Forthcoming book: "The Age of Extraction: The Tech platforms in the 21st Century"
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this is about something different
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I am giving an example of disinfo
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Mark Hamill? The actor?
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(Didn't know how to answer. On Ukraine the answer is clearly "yes")
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I took her as making the point that any economy needs extensive cooperation of various forms -- and we decide which forms to privilege and which to condemn
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When you look at the spending, the federal government is an insurance operation with an army as the saying goes. Cutting other stuff is ritual sacrifice, spending-wise.
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Could some agencies be more efficient ? Obviously. But in the grand scheme, purging employees won't actually save real money in a multitrillion dollar operation nor accomplish much other than give DOGE a bonfire to dance around
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Maybe the right word is "test"