Wow yeah, Shakespeare...so weird and different lol
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He really was able to translate the literature to acting relevance for me (as a lit person)
Not surprised to see a guy like Altman adopt the strategy
Honestly, I wouldn't touch Stripe with a ten foot poll at this valuation. Fintech is an industry that just disappoints in the end.
So the plan is to also make some of them federal employees, ostensibly helping to oversee those contracts? Seems like a conflict of interest...
But most creative people I know aren't really that interested in trying to co-opt someone else's work
>18F, the far left government wide computer office that was recently taken over by allies of @elonmusk, is also the same agency that built Elizabeth Warren's "Direct File" tax program.
>Direct File puts the government in charge of preparing peoples tax returns for them.
https://nitter.poast.org/alx/status/1886415751528972515?
Clearly, they think there is something malicious in having the federal government manage this service despite the fact that the result gets submitted....to the federal government anyway
(this is the right wing argument, so to speak)
Yet, people still seem baffled by what's going on and refuse to accept the maliciousness behind his and Trump's actions. He came out against a public technology service!
It's like Bill Gates being confused about USAID being dismantled and being willfully ignorant that the people dismantling it believe he's part of some sort of global health conspiracy along with Soros.
It's easy to see why they're successful. Their 'opposition' does nothing but roll over.
Start your own business, hustle, and bust ass
The man has been plotting on Signal with a bunch of cronies. Of course, he was never revealing his plans.
But, honestly, this makes perfect sense. USDS is an easy way for them to backdoor their way into the technology environment of the federal government on day 1. He gets a crew of talented people to report to him on day 1 who know the ins and outs as good as anyone in the federal government.
On top of that, after 4 years, they can tout all the successes of DOGE. Hell, they might even claim it saved Healthcare.gov
Huh? Trump singlehandedly bringing TikTok back for tens of millions of malleable voters. Sounds like a pretty huge victory for him!
It's for teams that exclusively use Slack, Notion, Miro, Vercel, Mux etc
That hype is nothing compared to the current hype, the idea that the US Government is going to buy a significant amount of Bitcoin to create a "strategic" reserve.
Every hype cycle gets bigger and bigger even as past ones never amount to anything
1. Relaxing Regulation for autonomous driving
2. Relaxing Regulation for rocket launches so he can get to Mars while he's still living.
3. Contracts for SpaceX wrt to space exploration and Starlink usage
The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this...
The Federal government is not needed for liberals to take the lead on this, but the mediocre center left Democrats who run everything in Blue States refuse to lift a finger.
In fact, so good, people think anything buy 10-20% yearly gains on assets is bad
Most of those organizations (like the UAW) don't focus on technology positions, so software people are left out in a lurch a bit.
NYTimes has savvy, vocal people in it that have someone overcome this.
They way it usually works is there is a probationary period that you can fire someone under for any reason (usually 90 days), but after that, supposedly you're more protected.
That said, in practice, it doesn't really prevent you from being part of a layoff or anything. You'll just get more notice and complaints.
Well they also run Cooking and Games, which has gotten pretty big. I imagine they have some hand in audio too.
They run their own services, such as messaging and ad delivery, too.
IIRC, they basically developed things like D3 and Backbone back in the day (or paid the maintainers)