All the news about DOGE is coming pretty quickly, and it feels like it deserves its own topic, rather than trying to decide between the Musk and Trump admin threads.
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Great idea!
I think this was posted in the Musk thread (or a link that linked to it, from Krebs, I think)…
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Second verse, same as first. err, third? fourth? I lost count of these.
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Mosk: Well, we will make mistakes. Like you know, TONS of mistakes. 
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One of my all-time favorite independent political commenators, a young Englishwoman who goes by Supertanskiii on yt, says that DOGE should always be pronounced “dodgy,” and I am in complete accord.
[She also says that Farage should always rhyme with “garbage.” That’s what he is.]
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I’ve lost track if it was DOGE or “anti-DEI”, but the data lost/removed from government websites feels like a crime to my record-loving self.
I found out the other day that once again there are a group of archivists creating backups of the data removed from the websites, and hosting them in Europe, to avoid US takedown requests apparently. The HHS one is fully operational that I saw and more to come. Crazy that we have to rely on silent digital soldiers to prevent brain drain. Again.
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Of course, because DOGE has done such a flawless, painstaking job. 
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Except of course AI sucks and it would just thrash around and fuck shit up.
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Here’s hoping the rest of the fucking world steps up to prevent that from happening.
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I’m trying to remember if it’s USAID funding that Michael Bloomberg pledged to replace. And if so, how much of it.
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I think the funding is only part of the problem, which that could be more easily replaced (this would be a good way for Bloomberg, etc, to actually help). In a recent video about the TB medicine and testing being held up in warehouses, John Green pointed out that the harder problem to crack is actually the logistics of these programs. Here it is…
Governments are often great at logistics, and that might be the larger problem other governments need to step in to help mitigate with USAID no longer providing this.
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