Every train, a note. A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

www.trainjazz.com TRAIN JAZZ

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

When I asked ChatGPT to summarize this, it referenced other reports of the release rather than the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.

Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.

So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Whatever the productivity gains promised by LLMs, they result in heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”

All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

@seldo.com would you or someone you know be interested in this position? bsky.app/profile/cydh...

Engineering Director - Digital Services (0932) The Office of the City Administrator and its 25+ divisions and departments operate core internal and public-facing services in San Francisco.   The Office of the City Administrator’s Mission and Visio...

hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374...

This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...

it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant

Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.

A yellow bird singing the words "despair is a tool of your enemies" -audre lorde

Good night, everyone. It feels like our so-called "leaders" have all but abandoned us, but we still have each other. I didn't know what else to do, so I made a little painting. Stay safe out there 💛

Oooo I think you’re right! Oops!

Lots of interesting .gov domains deleted and registered yesterday, keep up at @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social

How are you using deep fryers, labelers, and 3D printers to increase your productivity in 2026? (this is a mandatory field on your workplace performance self-evaluation)

Trump admin launches US Tech Force to recruit temporary workers after shedding thousands this year Some of the recruits to government service will be on leaves of absence from private sector companies while working for government — a setup that raises ethical questions about conflicts of interest.

We had this, it was called 18F and you gutted it in the name of cost savings and being "anti-woke". www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

Couldn’t be more proud of this team! I had the privilege of working with them as they took the reigns of the project — the people at the Tax Court really embraced their ownership and I have no doubts it will continue to repay the court for decades to come. 🥰

There is no crime problem…

“Crime” is a response to a problem

The problem is poverty…

The problem is inequity

🥺

What an insane few months it’s been dogetrack.info/goals/timeli...

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

18F files legal challenge A statement about 18F’s appeal filed with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.

We have some news to share with you. 🥄

Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE

New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

18F was a US government group helping government departments improve their use of technology which got recently wood-chipped. Here's a good overview of their work plus lessons learned: which apply to any large organization.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lear...

Former DOGE insider describes ‘wrecking ball’ approach | CNN Politics A former DOGE employee describes the ‘highly secretive’ group’s bulldozer-like approach to shrinking the government.

Excellent take on the wrecking ball that is DOGE. Merici Vinton is a legend to the US Digital Service.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p...

Working in the open For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed ...

18F advocated for "working in the open.” That doesn’t mean discussing sensitive information on unsecured platforms—it means respecting FOIA, opting for open source software, and sharing knowledge as widely as possible. 18f.org/working-in-t...

🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered.
https://trumpcard.gov

Action taken by the Executive Office of the President (DOGE) at or around 2025-03-25 06:10:57.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

“Officials liked what the man in the van set out to do - give all the children delicious candy - but have been frustrated by his reckless abduction approach”

DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.

Here's what we lose when teams like USDS and 18F are suddenly deleted.

New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...