Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
[stevie nicks voice] 🎶 "what chu had, and what chu lost" 🎶
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i know Musk likes SF, so it's pretty cool that DOGE is like the governmental version of that story "Gambling Device" by Frank Herbert.
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i got a scary letter from, of all states, the State of Florida recently, threatening me with a thousands of dollars penalty. to address it, i was gonna have to send documents back and forth to my elderly parents and get an affadivit signed. (it had to do with retitling a car.) 1/
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i phoned, accurately and truthfully explained the situation. initially, the person on the other end of the line said i should get the affidavit done, and i agreed we would, but when she realized it would be burdensome and saw that my story checked out, she just ended the case. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
the faceless bureaucracy, it turns out, is made of human beings who have some latitude to exercise discretion. there is danger in that — they could be biased! corrupt! 3/
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but often, usually, they exercise judgment as best they can. as citizens, we have people we can appeal to, who can understand our situation. i wonder how that will work with the AI bots. 4/
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tell me, when all the megacorps switched from human customer service to automated phone trees, was that more or less "bureaucracy" in the pejorative sense? 5/
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because from my perspective, firing the humans makes the world more kafkaesque, not less. /fin
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One of our best.
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i'm just waiting for the Platinum Card. and then of course the Black Card.
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hypotheses not mutually exclusive!
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denazification
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no. just different.
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people think the “five questions” thing is about evaluating employees, or more cynically coming up with pretexts to fire them, but i think he’s trying to get government workers to generate data in order to train his AI.
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@interfluidity.com
investment (in amenable sectors) begets productivity as much as productivity begets new investment. cf @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
On intensive vs extensive growth
Link Preview: On intensive vs extensive growth: There might be more to be said for the government's approach to raising economic growth than we think. To see what I mean, let's first see the criticism of its approach. This rests upon the distinctio...
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and the shining city on the hill grows an increment dimmer.
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word of the day! (new to me!)
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i think it’s the older word, the one debaathification mimicked, in this case.
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one way to shrink the Federal government is by impeachment.
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📌
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shhh! you’ll be fired from NSA for touchéing yourself!
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i am grateful that they’ve left “spend a lot of money to help a whole lot of people” on the cutting room floor to be picked up by more civilized tendencies. though morality compels me to call and write them they should refrain from austerity that politically must doom them.
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@interfluidity.com
say what you will but the franchise was prescient. Bond villains are real.
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there’s this dynamic on the right where they have these openly satirical websites write “fake news” stories — satire! satire! — so that headlines or quotes can be lifted from their openly satirical context and represented or memified as straight news. dunning-kruger-times.com/about-us/
