“The British theorist Stafford Beer once said that “the purpose of a system is what it does” — a helpful reminder to judge a process not by its stated mission but by its outcomes” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

“The output of research is not the point of research. The knowledge that is produced in your own head, and shared—in its richness—with your whole team—is the point of research. The arduous synthesis is the job.”

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

Officials in Maryland, New York, New Mexico and Kansas City are among those launching recruitment campaigns targeting federal workers and adjusting hiring procedures to scoop up some badly needed talent.

“If we still had a rule of law, a robust system for the rule of law, it would be investigated,” a professor focusing at Wash U Law

“In the fair administration of justice, no man can be judge in his own case, however exalted his station, however righteous his motives,” - Justice Potter Stewart
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

In short, 18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it. 18F’s work is evidence that government works well, which undermines their message that it doesn’t.

"In oral cultures, he wrote, cliché and stereotype are valued, conflict and name-calling are prized because they are memorable, and speakers tend not to correct themselves because “it is only in a literate culture that the past’s inconsistencies have to be accounted for”. www.ft.com/content/e2dd...

“Obviously, if ChatGPT is building unethical websites, it’s because it’s been trained with data of unethical websites.” - Carissa Veliz, Associate Professor in AI ethics at the University of Oxford www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...

Guess we can call off the manhunt for the CEO assassin, vigilante killing is legal in NYC

grappling with the implications of The Claims Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O

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