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DOGE's Race to the Bottom

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It's been three weeks since Elon Musk's agents took over the government’s IT and HR departments.

Since then, the movements of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency have had the cartography of a horror movie.

This is an engineering sprint whose inevitable finish line is the unwinding of the social contract.

The goal of most acquisitions is not to benefit the acquired, but to either subsume or discard, whichever generates the highest return.

At least dozens of workers at the Technology Transformation Service were fired on Wednesday , a day after similar sudden cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .

The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk ’s SpaceX.