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Michael
@michdang.bsky.social
Software engineer, 🏳️‍🌈, SF
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venture capital burned through all of the good “what if a computer could do <x>” business ideas by like 2009 and everything since has required increasingly degrading levels of suspended disbelief. silicon valley must move beyond computers
March 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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What accounts for phrasing like this?

If any other president in modern times had signed an executive order libelling a DC law firm as an enemy of the state, the headlines would be about how he’s a fucking lunatic, the courts were sure to slap him down, and his cabinet was reacting with horror.
President Donald Trump targeted another elite law firm that has represented clients he considers his political enemies, sending a forceful message that he is willing to punish firms who work for people or groups that oppose his administration’s agenda.
Trump expands retribution campaign against law firms that aided his foes
Trump hit another major law firm that worked for his political rivals with an executive order seeking to limit its ability to work for the U.S. government.
wapo.st
March 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees.

This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon.

That review is "dead," person familiar says.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
January 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM