Trump threatens new 'large scale' sanctions on Russia for 'pounding' Ukraine (youtube.com)
DOGE reported this week on paid software licences. 36k ServiceNow licences on 3 products with only 84 people using them, 11k Acrobat licences with 0 users.
The new kleptocratic movement, some say, is Silicon Valley installing their friends and favorites into government and beurocratic positions.
Chamath suggested that the way to get to the transparency that would be required to have a system of government grants that was not corrupt (as it is now with giant established companies writing the terms of the grant and then getting it quickly while other companies fight for years for 1/10th the grant, or outcompete but still can't get the contract), is that the companies can publish everything. There’s an incredibly detailed set of data that you should be publishing in. And you can review that. And it can be escalated if someone else gets it because of preference. ‘Publish every RSP. Publish every spec. Publish every evaluation criteria. Make these things as mechanistic as possible.’
Chamath talked about how a lot of people voted for what Trump wanted to do, in November, which is what a lot of people were talking about and wanted to do, which in his words was not continue with the liberal program of continued blurriness on differences (gender, whatever) and go to focus again. However, now we're seeing how difficult that might be to actually implement.