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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 01:13:45 JST Anil Dash

   Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture/

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 03:51:29 JST Anil Dash

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     • Curious Magpie

     @CuriousMagpie I literally cover that in the second paragraph of the piece.

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     Curious Magpie (curiousmagpie@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 03:51:30 JST Curious Magpie

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     @anildash Every time you choose to use the acronym doge, you are giving free advertising to musk’s crypto and you are legitimizing this travesty.
     As Sherilynn Ifill says in her newsletter today: “Musk and Ramaswamy are leading at best a “project on government accountability.” … It is not a “Department” which is a legal term for federal agencies.“

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 03:52:19 JST Anil Dash

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     • Curious Magpie

     @CuriousMagpie and dogecoin predates Musk’s interest in that currency by years, fwiw

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:27:28 JST mark

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     @anildash thank you for calling out that this isn't real from the very beginning. I'm so tired of seeing people repeat the name uncritically. It isn't a legal entity, it's not part of our govt. I don't expect the media to actually ignore this and make it irrelevant while rich people LARP at being responsible, but I also don't expect them to play along so easily

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 16:00:44 JST Anil Dash

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     • TK

     @CrucialTK yeah I knew the lowest bidder part was reductive, and a couple of folks pointed out the GSA error. I’ll update soon! Thanks.

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     TK (crucialtk@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 16:00:45 JST TK

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     @anildash a couple things: GSA isn’t in charge of procurement per se, and “procurement process requires them to go with the lowest bidder” is inaccurate

     Source: I’m an 11 year 1102.