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Carmen Torrecillas<p>🚨 We’re thrilled to share our new piece on <a href="https://vis.social/tags/algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithms</span></a> in <a href="https://vis.social/tags/publicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicAdministration</span></a>. This time, diving into the Spanish healthcare system 🤖🩺</p><p>We explore how medical diagnostic support systems fail, and the serious bias issues they carry.</p><p>It was definitely a challenge (the terminology was particularly tricky to translate into visuals), but honestly, I’m so proud of the result! <a href="https://vis.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> 🌈</p><p>👇 Check it out here<br> 🇬🇧 In English:<br><a href="https://civio.es/sanidad/2025/07/03/mole-or-cancer-the-algorithm-that-gets-one-in-three-melanomas-wrong-and-erases-patients-with-dark-skin/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">civio.es/sanidad/2025/07/03/mo</span><span class="invisible">le-or-cancer-the-algorithm-that-gets-one-in-three-melanomas-wrong-and-erases-patients-with-dark-skin/</span></a></p><p> 🇪🇸 In Spanish:<br><a href="https://civio.es/sanidad/2025/06/26/inteligencia-artificial-algoritmos-sanidad-sesgos-discriminacion/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">civio.es/sanidad/2025/06/26/in</span><span class="invisible">teligencia-artificial-algoritmos-sanidad-sesgos-discriminacion/</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Why is Sir Keir Starmer so absolutely hellbent on turning us into, in his wince-makingly gauche phrase, ‘an AI superpower’; so keen to jump the gun that he hadn’t even allowed the public consultation on AI and copyright to conclude before he pushed the government’s recommendations – which were, basically, to let copyright holders be damned. He seems to have been seduced by the blandishments of the salespeople for this technology, whose main sales tool is FOMO. AI is a solution in search of a problem. Big tech has invested so much in it that they’re trying to brute-force it into every area of life, and they are succeeding. </p><p>Of course, one can see how – for instance – using AI to minute meetings or draft memos can save costly man-hours. But the way to integrate it into the machinery of Whitehall is, or should be, with extreme caution and on a case-by-case basis, not with the panicky haste of someone who’s been persuaded by a lobbyist that if you don’t go all-in on this exciting new technology as fast as possible you’re going to be left behind. It seems something of a tell, for instance, that Principle 8 in the government’s own AI Playbook is: ‘You work with commercial colleagues from the start.’ </p><p> As Sir Humphrey would say: ‘No, Prime Minister.’"</p><p><a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-anyone-really-want-ai-civil-servants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spectator.co.uk/article/does-a</span><span class="invisible">nyone-really-want-ai-civil-servants/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration</p><p><a href="https://portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1205-petice-za-povinne-zverejneni-zdrojovych-kodu-softwaru-pouzitych-ve-verejne-sprave" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1205-pe</span><span class="invisible">tice-za-povinne-zverejneni-zdrojovych-kodu-softwaru-pouzitych-ve-verejne-sprave</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CzechRepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CzechRepublic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalGovernance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transparency</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Many of the new hurdles, federal workers said, stem from changes imposed by the U.S. DOGE Service, Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, which burst into government promising to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse and trim staff and spending.</p><p>The team’s overarching goal was in its name: DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency, although it is not part of the Cabinet. But as Musk departed government on Friday, many federal workers said DOGE has in many ways had the opposite effect.</p><p>DOGE’s intense scrutiny of federal spending is forcing employees to spend hours justifying even the most basic purchases. New rules mandating review and approval by political appointees are leaving thousands of contracts and projects on ice for months. Large-scale firings spearheaded by DOGE have cut support offices — especially IT shops — that assisted federal workers with issues ranging from glitching computers to broken desk chairs. And the piecemeal reassignment of staff is causing significant lags in work in some agencies, notably Social Security, as inexperienced workers adjust to new roles.</p><p>Meanwhile, most everyone, across every agency, is dealing with fallout from new policies or executive orders — even as colleagues continue to resign or retire, increasing the workload for those who remain."</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/02/doge-vowed-make-government-more-efficient-its-doing-opposite/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/20</span><span class="invisible">25/06/02/doge-vowed-make-government-more-efficient-its-doing-opposite/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>Mussolini and Fidel Castro would be proud...</p><p>"Federal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s new “merit hiring plan.”</p><p>“How would you help advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities in this role?” asks one of four essay questions that job seekers must answer if they are seeking any federal position GS-5 or above. “Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.”</p><p>The federal government’s dedicated HR agency published the plan via a joint memo from Vince Haley, director of President Trump’s Domestic Policy Council and acting OPM Director Charles Ezell. The document is a hodgepodge of bipartisan reforms developed under both Trump and former President Biden to accelerate and improve the hiring process, alongside plans to eradicate longstanding efforts to make the federal workforce more reflective of the American populace.</p><p>“The American people deserve a federal workforce dedicated to American values and efficient service,” they wrote. “Yet, federal hiring criteria long ago abandoned any serious need for technical skills and adherence to the Constitution. Instead, the overly complex federal hiring system overemphasized discriminatory ‘equity’ quotas and too often resulted in the hiring of unfit, unskilled, bureaucrats.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/opm-merit-hiring-plan-includes-bipartisan-reforms-politicized-new-test/405687/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/</span><span class="invisible">opm-merit-hiring-plan-includes-bipartisan-reforms-politicized-new-test/405687/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BrainWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainWashing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ideology</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>Free chapters of the book "Parliamentary politics in the Netherlands" , for people like me interested in government and public administration.<br><a href="https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A4177619/view" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarlypublications.universi</span><span class="invisible">teitleiden.nl/access/item%3A4177619/view</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicadministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parliament</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netherlands</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>Finally, someone from DOGE admits it...: </p><p>"Now that he’s there, he says he finds himself surrounded by people who “love their jobs,” who came to the government with a sense of mission driving their work.</p><p>“In a sense, that makes the DOGE agenda a little bit more complicated, because if half the government took [a buyout offer], then we wouldn’t have to do much more,” he says, implying software can replace departing employees. “We’d just basically use software to plug holes. But that’s not what’s happening.”</p><p>Lavingia’s skills with automation, which have helped keep Gumroad lean, are what he hopes to bring to the VA. But when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might.</p><p>“I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” he says. “But honestly, it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-sahil-lavignia-gumroad?mvgt=rGOBmdaQxIAe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-</span><span class="invisible">sahil-lavignia-gumroad?mvgt=rGOBmdaQxIAe</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"At the Environmental Protection Agency, research at 11 laboratories has ground to a halt because the Trump administration has not approved most new lab purchases.</p><p>At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, key work on weather forecasting has slowed to a crawl because Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick must sign off personally on many contracts and grants. And at the Social Security Administration, some employees are running out of paper, pens and printer toner because the U.S. DOGE Service has placed a $1 spending limit on government-issued credit cards. (DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency, though it is not a Cabinet-level agency.)</p><p>Across the federal government, Trump officials are halting a wide range of operations by declining to approve key funds. This unofficial hold on many activities has incapacitated many agencies’ divisions, even though they remain technically intact.<br>This account of how the administration and DOGE are stalling government operations is based on interviews with more than a dozen federal employees across eight agencies, as well as several internal emails and documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The employees spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution."</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/nation/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FundingCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FundingCuts</span></a></p>
Taran Rampersad<p>In what is likely a "we need to look young and vibrant vibe, the new government of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrinidadAndTobago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrinidadAndTobago</span></a> threw AI into the title with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicadministration</span></a> </p><p>I'm not sure they know what they're doing.</p><p><a href="https://knowprose.com/2025/05/ai-and-emerging-governance-in-small-states-the-case-of-trinidad-and-tobago/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowprose.com/2025/05/ai-and-e</span><span class="invisible">merging-governance-in-small-states-the-case-of-trinidad-and-tobago/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallState</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a college undergrad has been tasked with using AI to find where HUD regulations may go beyond the strictest interpretation of underlying laws. (Agencies have traditionally had broad interpretive authority when legislation is vague, although the Supreme Court recently shifted that power to the judicial branch.) This is a task that actually makes some sense for AI, which can synthesize information from large documents far faster than a human could. There’s some risk of hallucination—more specifically, of the model spitting out citations that do not in fact exist—but a human needs to approve these recommendations regardless. This is, on one level, what generative AI is actually pretty good at right now: doing tedious work in a systematic way.</p><p>There’s something pernicious, though, in asking an AI model to help dismantle the administrative state. (Beyond the fact of it; your mileage will vary there depending on whether you think low-income housing is a societal good or you’re more of a Not in Any Backyard type.) AI doesn’t actually “know” anything about regulations or whether or not they comport with the strictest possible reading of statutes, something that even highly experienced lawyers will disagree on. It needs to be fed a prompt detailing what to look for, which means you can not only work the refs but write the rulebook for them. It is also exceptionally eager to please, to the point that it will confidently make stuff up rather than decline to respond.</p><p>If nothing else, it’s the shortest path to a maximalist gutting of a major agency’s authority, with the chance of scattered bullshit thrown in for good measure."</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-in-its-ai-era/?utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/doge-is-in-its</span><span class="invisible">-ai-era/?utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The market economy will not grow in a socially desirable direction on its own. Rather—as my book The Entrepreneurial State stressed over 10 years ago—a dynamic, capable public sector with a decentralized network of public institutions across the innovation chain can shape the direction of growth toward more socially desirable outcomes. The public sector needs to develop competent and well-equipped national, regional, and local governments that can work together to deploy tools like outcomes-oriented procurement and strategic public investment. Unfortunately, the new government initiative so-called the Department of Government Efficiency appears to be a regurgitation of new public management theory—the idea that private-sector management practices should be applied to the delivery of public services, based on the assumption that the government’s attempts to make things better for people could actually make them worse. This contradicts what we need to do: invest in our public sector to develop the dynamic capabilities necessary to foster innovation-led sustainable and inclusive economic growth. And ultimately, this is not about the state doing everything itself—it is also about having the capacity required to work well with others, including private sector actors."</p><p><a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/mission-oriented-framework-for-economy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/mi</span><span class="invisible">ssion-oriented-framework-for-economy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicInvestment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicInvestment</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EntrepreneurialState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EntrepreneurialState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicPolicy</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Pay gap in Latvia narrows but still unfair <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/940529/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/940529/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AgeGroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeGroups</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Featured</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FullTimeWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FullTimeWorkers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Latvia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Latvia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>men</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PartTimeWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PartTimeWorkers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PayGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PayGap</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The problem is that governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes. If public policymakers start mimicking business founders, they will undermine their own ability to address complex societal challenges.</p><p>For startups, the highest priority is rapid iteration, technology-driven disruption, and financial returns for investors. Their success often hinges on solving a narrowly defined problem with a single product, or within a single organization. Governments, by contrast, must tackle complex, interconnected issues like poverty, public health, and national security. Each challenge calls for collaboration across multiple sectors, and careful long-term planning. The idea of securing short-term gains in any of these areas doesn’t even make sense.</p><p>Unlike startups, governments are supposed to uphold legal mandates, ensure the provision of essential services, and enforce equal treatment under the law – more important today than ever. Metrics like market share are irrelevant, because the government has no competitors. Rather than trying to “win,” it should focus on expanding opportunities and promoting the diffusion of best practices. It must be long-term minded, while achieving nimble and flexible structures that can adapt."</p><p><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/government-should-not-act-like-a-startup-or-business-by-mariana-mazzucato-and-rainer-kattel-2025-04" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">project-syndicate.org/commenta</span><span class="invisible">ry/government-should-not-act-like-a-startup-or-business-by-mariana-mazzucato-and-rainer-kattel-2025-04</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Governments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Governments</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/StartUps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StartUps</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicPolicy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicInterest</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The first step may be to finally recognize that “running government like a business” has always been a red herring. The government is not a business — it is the thing that makes business possible. Unregulated markets frequently fail to produce good businesses so long as we define “good” as beneficial to their customers. And unregulated businesses, as we’ve recently been forced to witness, are even worse at producing good government. As the economist Mariana Mazzucato has long argued, the libertarian CEO types now running Washington are willfully ignorant of just how dependent their industries are on the backbone of public services like roads, telecoms, courts and publicly-funded research — services they have enjoyed largely for free since financial liberalization and business tax cuts have allowed them to shelter the vast majority of their profits.</p><p>Step two is much harder: articulating some positive idea of an activist government in the marketplace. For Doctorow, as for many others, this begins with “a very aggressive antitrust agenda” aimed at breaking up the monopolies that have become powerful enough to capture — and try to replace — the federal government under Trump. “You cannot have a referee who is weaker than the players on the field,” he told me.</p><p>“Anti-government nihilism cannot be countered without a defense of the government’s role in daily life.”</p><p>But there are other, more constructive roles the government could play. Doctorow suggested a federal jobs guarantee that would put a meaningful floor on the value of labor. Or a database of publicly funded, patent-free research, which would compel corporations to support interoperability — what Mazzucato has called, in the context of AI, a “decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.noemamag.com/the-good-society-department/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">noemamag.com/the-good-society-</span><span class="invisible">department/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NewDeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewDeal</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicPolicy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicInterest</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1975641/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1975641/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Elon Musk’s Tariff Rift With Peter Navarro Is Getting Ugly <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DogeLane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DogeLane</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoxNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PeterNavarro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterNavarro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ReciprocalTariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReciprocalTariff</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SundayInterview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SundayInterview</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TariffRift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TariffRift</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a>.navarro <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WhiteHouseDogeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouseDogeOffice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Elon Musk’s Tariff Rift With Peter Navarro Is Getting Ugly <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/898829/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/898829/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DogeLane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DogeLane</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoxNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PeterNavarro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterNavarro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ReciprocalTariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReciprocalTariff</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SeniorAdvisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeniorAdvisor</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TariffRift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TariffRift</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/thursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thursday</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WhiteHouseDogeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouseDogeOffice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Work</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Protests opposing the cuts and supporting laid-off workers have started popping up, but the real hotbed of organizing has been happening online, in Signal chats, on Facebook and in the popular “FedNews” channel on Reddit, where federal workers are sharing advice, talking about their experiences and encouraging opposition.</p><p>“KEEP SHOUTING THE TRUTH, KEEP RINGING THE BELL: It’s working!” read a post last week. “I just got a mass email from my agency branch ‘reminding’ us not to talk to the media, listing several regulations that state we’re not to talk to the media. They wouldn’t have sent that if the media wasn’t getting FLOODED with federal workers reporting the truth, reporting what is REALLY going on. It’s affecting them.”</p><p>“I’ve heard so many people ask: WHY is Donald T. so hell-bent on destroying Federal workers?” read another recent post. “Because we are in his way. … Hold the line.”</p><p>The totality of the effort is quite broad. Workers are filing lawsuits, joining protests and sharing internal documents with media outlets. They’ve launched anonymous websites and social media accounts to promote their narratives. They’ve built resource guides and recorded private meetings. And they’ve resigned, sometimes in large numbers, to protest Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service."</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-fight-back-trump-dismantles-work-radicalized-rcna192040" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/doge/fede</span><span class="invisible">ral-workers-fight-back-trump-dismantles-work-radicalized-rcna192040</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Layoffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a></p>
Academic Europe<p>Job - Alert 📚</p><p>🧑‍💼HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (P3)</p><p>Deadline: 2025-03-30</p><p>Location: Sweden, Malmö </p><p><a href="https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=6989" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">academiceurope.com/job/?id=698</span><span class="invisible">9</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiring</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/HRManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HRManager</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>administration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/HumanResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanResources</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/socialscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialscience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/BusinessAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAdministration</span></a></p>
Technische Universität München<p>Congrats to Sarah Rachut, managing director of the TUM Center for Digital Public Services, on being honored as one of Germany’s best young scientists! 👏 She sees legal sciences as a contributing factor to the <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/DigitalTransformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalTransformation</span></a> in <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/PublicAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAdministration</span></a>, <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> and <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a>: <a href="http://go.tum.de/947613" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">go.tum.de/947613</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/LegalResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegalResearch</span></a></p><p>📷Graf-Rachut</p>
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