DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater Comes Full Circle: Trump Admin Scrambles To Rehire The Very Workers Musk Fired To “Save Money”
#inefficiency
"A Novice Defense Secretary Lectures the Brass on What It Takes to Win. Senior officers, summoned from around the world, are entrusted to manage complex military operations. They got a lecture on fitness and grooming standards":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/hegseth-military-officers.html
#NationalSecurity #recklessness #inefficiency #politics
"5 Takeaways From Trump’s Address to Generals and Admirals":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-speech-military-takeaways.html
#NationalSecurity #recklessness #inefficiency #politics
Billionaires Baffled by Human Life - Tim Dillon
Ah, the age-old art of turning CPUs into overworked, overheated existentialists 🤖💥. Join us on a merry jaunt through the enchanted land of #inefficiency, where profiling and #debugging are just wizard spells to summon more #chaos. Remember, kids, real pros know that maximizing waste is the pinnacle of tech prowess! 🎩✨
https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2025/09/19/how-to-waste-cpu-like-a-professional/ #CPUoverload #techhumor #existentialism #HackerNews #ngated
Matches my experience in large companies 😅:
“The Enterprise Experience”, ‘Church Of Turing’ (https://churchofturing.github.io/the-enterprise-experience.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932980
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/i8eoxa/enterprise_experience
#Work #Rants #Culture #Inefficiency #CorporateLife #EnterpriseSoftware
A quotation from Wendell Berry
It is impossible to think that constitutional government can be suspended in a time of danger, in deference to the greater “efficiency” of centralized power, and then easily or quickly restored. Efficiency may be a political virtue, but only if strictly limited. Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 3, Citizenship Papers (2003)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17687/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #checksandbalances #Constitution #efficiency #government #inefficiency #power #separationofpowers #tyranny
"DOGE Has Wasted Billions While Saving Only a Fraction of What It Claims: Reports
New analysis paints a picture of dysfunction and waste at the Department of Government Efficiency."—Lucas Ropek >
#DOGE #inefficiency #demagogy #plutocracy #insanity #USA #public_services #finance #economy #techno_feudalism #privacy #technocracy #tech_bros #efficiency #waste #billions #analysis #savings #facts
~ DOGE wasted $21.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a new US Senate committee report.
The biggest waste was in paying federal employees to stay home from work.
#USA #USGov #USpol #trump #DOGE #inefficiency #DOGI
—
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doge-federal-employees-reductions-in-force-rif-rcna222536
—
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Once it is realized that business monopoly in America paralyzes the system of free enterprise on which it is grafted, and is as fatal to those who manipulate it as to the people who suffer beneath its impositions, action by the government to eliminate these artificial restraints will be welcomed by industry throughout the nation.
For idle factories and idle workers profit no man.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #competition #economicinjustice #economicinterests #freeenterprise #freemarket #inefficiency #monopoly #regulation
Global, regional, and national #HealthCare #inefficiency and associated factors in 201 countries, 1995–2022: a stochastic frontier meta-analysis for the #GlobalBurdenOfDiseaseStudy 2023
"Expanding government-provided health-care coverage would decrease the inefficiency of the health-care system. Countries should also focus on strengthening #democracy, building #infrastructure, and increasing the use of, and access to, #PreventiveCare."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00178-0/fulltext
Ah, Gemini API's "batch mode" – because apparently, processing singularly was just too mainstream for Google's hipster #developers. 🚀🤓 Now you can experience #inefficiency *en masse* while pretending to be productive! 🎉🤖
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/scale-your-ai-workloads-batch-mode-gemini-api/ #GeminiAPI #batchmode #Google #techhumor #productivity #HackerNews #ngated
Ah, the majestic "vibe code"—an enigma wrapped in a riddle and buried in a landfill of #spaghetti #syntax. 🤖 Apparently, reviewing it is like trying to tango in a minefield, so just #vibe with the #inefficiency and feel superior! 😂
https://monadical.com/posts/vibe-code-how-to-stay-in-control.html #code #tech #humor #coding #challenges #HackerNews #ngated
Ah yes, *another* tech solution nobody asked for: "Ovld – Now You Too Can Experience the Joy of Overcomplexifying #Python Function Calls!" 🙄 Because what Python *really* needed was more feature-bloat under the guise of 'efficiency' 🚀.
https://github.com/breuleux/ovld #techsolutions #featurebloat #overcomplexity #inefficiency #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated
Talk of opening seven thousand closed banks. That will put over a half-million bank vice-presidents back on the payroll.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1933-09-25), “Daily Telegram”
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76816/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #inefficiency #banks #bigbusiness ??#bureaucracy #management #vicepresident
🧐Imho #WHO (& #UN) are afflicted by a #chronic #malaise of gross #inefficiency in #critical #treaty #enactment.
WHO adopts #landmark #pandemic #agreement
"after more than 3 years of negotiations sparked by shock of #Covid19.. Countries still hv to thrash out details of agreement's Pathogen Access & Benefit-Sharing (PABS) mechanism. Once #PABS system is finalised, e agreement can then be #ratified by members, with 60 #ratifications required for treaty to enter into force"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3030332/who-adopts-landmark-pandemic-agreement
Government Tech: 1 9 8‘0s Revisited - Doug Burgum on All-In
The first 100 days of the current administration is marked by deliberate incompetence: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/donald-trump-100-days-to-break-the-government-doge-musk/
#motherjones #47 #doge #elonmusk #stupidity #authoritarianism #inefficiency #waste #timmurphy #first100days
#us #trump #hegseth #pentagon #inefficiency
Signs of implosion of the Trump regime on every level...
"The changes will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office."
So hopefully only the internal Pentagon resistance will survive...
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