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2/ (Meanwhile, check out the reporting at wired.com and 404media.co, it's good and you can tell they've got good sources.) It's really bad! Here's the thing about tech in general, and tech in gov specifically. It's always about people, not the technology.

3/ *The most important thing* to realize here is that technology is just a tool and it's used at the direction of people to accomplish their goals. The second most important thing is that *things change when they are deemed important enough*. COVID and unemployment insurance is a good example.

4/ When COVID hit, a whole bunch of government technology became critical and politically sensitive. Just the same way the launch of the Affordable Care Act website was botched. In both cases, "we" *knew* what to do, how to figure it out, and and how to do it.

This is so spot on. I've mixed in so many tech, publishing and political circles now, and I know that some people seek to create chaos because they're like the weeds that take advantage of a volcanic eruption. They need things destroyed in order to colonise the area. Musk and Trump are the type.

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