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

The reason Mamdani can do this - and the reason billionaires can't - is that the fraud and waste that undermines governments at all levels come from the super-rich, with their tax-dodging, their no-bid contracts, their addiction to public subsidies. 39/

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ccrask.bsky.social @ccrask.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

An excellent read, thank you

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

keeping in mind that DOGE succeeded spectacularly in its actual mission and that Musk is now a mass murderer who has all our Social Security numbers

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Ukemike @ukemike.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Doge created the conditions for massively increased fraud and waste. I think that was the real purpose. Gut the government, especially the watchdogs, then hand out no bid contracts because bidding and competition is hard work.

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