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Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture/
@anildash Every time you choose to use the acronym doge, you are giving free advertising to musk’s crypto and you are legitimizing this travesty.
As Sherilynn Ifill says in her newsletter today: “Musk and Ramaswamy are leading at best a “project on government accountability.” … It is not a “Department” which is a legal term for federal agencies.“
@CuriousMagpie I literally cover that in the second paragraph of the piece.
@CuriousMagpie and dogecoin predates Musk’s interest in that currency by years, fwiw
@anildash and yet you still choose to use it in the headline for clucks - it behooves good journalists to be thoughtful about the words they choose.
@CuriousMagpie @anildash it behooves good journalists to speak in a language they understand.
They also use “MAGA”, even though there is little agreement of what “great” means or evidence that Trump has achieved its supposed goal.
Until and unless a better term arrives, “DOGE” is an appropriate choice.
