Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
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Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
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Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#2The headline sucks (as of this posting) as one it doesn’t match and two even the matching headline is not accurate.
Mark Cuban is encouraging the employees of 18F to start their venture to provide govt services. He will invest hoping that DOGE will see right through their mistakes and seek to hire them back.
Except he is wrong. Musk is a lot of things but one thing he isn’t capable of is backtracking showing his actions to be stupid.
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#3So Mark Cuban wants to lean into exactly what DOGE is pushing by putting himself in the middle of the Governmental to Private shift?
That doesn't surprise me and gives more evidence that Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR.
Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#4Presented with the noblest of intensions, no doubt, but a symptom of an extremely disconcerning trend: the beginning of the endstate where the US government is completely privatized.
Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#5They built / manage login.gov?
Oh boy.
It’s one thing if Twitter has bugs. It’s another thing if people have bugs while trying to login or signup to government services. Or hackers finding vulnerabilities and no one to fix them?
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Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#7So Mark Cuban wants to lean into exactly what DOGE is pushing by putting himself in the middle of the Governmental to Private shift? That doesn't surprise me and gives more evidence that Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR.
I mean Musk is carrying out a coup, and Cuban is trying to invest in some programmers. I think there's some day light here.
Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#8So Mark Cuban wants to lean into exactly what DOGE is pushing by putting himself in the middle of the Governmental to Private shift? That doesn't surprise me and gives more evidence that Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR.
Yeah, I would much rather he put money into supporting constitutional amendments to make crystal clear the executive branch does not set spending and Citizens United is explicitly rejected.
You could call it a Big Beautiful Amendment.
Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#9So Mark Cuban wants to lean into exactly what DOGE is pushing by putting himself in the middle of the Governmental to Private shift? That doesn't surprise me and gives more evidence that Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR.
yeah I had to step back from this when I saw it* on my feed because I was so disenchanted by how positive the replies were. Not even sure what their issues with DOGE are if they think this is a great solution...
ETA: I'm on about his bluesky post, to be clear, not this thread
Re: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
#10They built / manage login.gov? Oh boy. It’s one thing if Twitter has bugs. It’s another thing if people have bugs while trying to login or signup to government services. Or hackers finding vulnerabilities and no one to fix them?
Yeah, it's almost as if Elon doesn't have the country's best interest at heart.