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@eniko tangential, but I'm now trying to work out if everyone at that publication is deliberately ignoring the context for the naming of Murk's would-be government department

"the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, was once a word to describe Venetian monarchs"

in the context of internet culture but more specifically in the context of Musk's very personal semiotic symbolism.

(He used to be part of my beat before I sidled away from journalism.)