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A helpful way to track decisions made by human-agent teams, partially as a baton pass to future agents, but also a record for yourself. Can be used lots of different ways depending…

I'm far more willing to trust someone in the field every day (you), over keyboard warriors who want to validate their new toy is alive.

What an unhinged moment in time. At some point, they'll need to be courageous people with the ability and funds to speak up and say enough. But will they? It does not appear so.

Civic tech is dead.

Meh, good riddance. The old internet wasn't all good.

This thing was always underutilized even by the last 2 administrations. For all of the purported DOGE savings, these folks actually legitimately saved money from agencies, which is…

even conceding that, letting one guy decide it using executive power is problematic. And illegal

Procurement rules exist for a reason, letting one guy funnel business to his company using the President's power is a huge risk to the nation-state.

It's illegal and unfair competition. We can't just throw out laws we hate all the time on the whims on an unelected guy in the White House.

haa, an insepector general looking at this stuff is quaint in the era of let's just break all the rules.

Not young people at all, actually. Mostly mid-to-senior people.

"losing money" is a canard when it's a self-producing government entity that was using not public dollars but instead user fees from a GSA Fund. There were lots of folks who had in…

there are lots of them already, but many more that need them.

In reality, they were embedded with federal agencies and worked on engagements for them. You gotta read what people actually do in practice, versus just the pitch.

The model of 18F changed a lot, none of those products including Login.gov or Cloud.gov were part of 18F, they're all spinfoffs that live within TTS.

it's expensive, the risks of losing are big and they dig into your whole life and basically ruin it. But agreed more people should be in these roles or at least advising these peop…

I think there's a big difference between -- hall monitors making stuff impossible and what we're seeing now. USDS part of the executive branch made things more difficult, but if yo…

Dark patterns as a name needs work anymore, but I like the general premise of this and think it could be cool for people learning this stuff for the first time. Good work conceptua…

same with dating apps. match owns all of them but bumble

Mastodon is fine for a specific audience but not a scalabale Twitter. SubNotes won't be either, but it's atop an ecosystem that should prevent the spam & trolls of Twitter, et. al.…

Loved pen & paper baseball as a kid, used to invent vast worlds. Now I use Out of the Park Baseball as my simulator of choice, but there have been precedessors since the late 90s.

That book was a childhood favorite of mine.

The problem is Deloitte is in the pockets of Congress and won't ever allow this to happen. In fact, they've made it worse.

Honestly, I've found when I give kid presentations just telling them you do computer stuff is pretty impressive by itself. I think demystifying the world around them, letting them …