Cory Doctorow on Nostr: What the Supreme Court began, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are now poised to finish, ...
What the Supreme Court began, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are now poised to finish, through the "Department of Government Efficiency," a fake agency whose acronym ("DOGE") continues Musk's long-running cryptocurrency memecoin pump-and-dump. The new department is absurd - imagine a department devoted to "efficiency" with two co-equal leaders who are both famously incapable of getting along with anyone - but that doesn't make it any less dangerous.
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