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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 36/

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Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (Pit) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

Writing for *Wired*, Steven "Hackers" Levy paints a portrait of New York's PIT Crews, describing them as "what DOGE should have been": www.wired.com/story/mamdan... 37/

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Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

I'll go farther than that: the PIT Crews - and Mamdani's project as a whole - is delivering the *entire* failed promise of DOGE. Unlike Musk and Trump, Mamdani is *actually* rooting out fraud and waste. 38/

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