Tech Won't Save Us

DOGE Is Gutting the US Digital Service w/ Kate Green and Milo

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Paris Marx is joined by Kate Green and Milo to discuss how Elon Musk’s DOGE is dismantling the US Digital Service and the consequences that has on really improving service delivery in government.

Kate Green and Milo are former US Digital Service engineers.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Find out more about We The Builders and read perspectives of federal workers.
  • USDS workers have resigned en masse from DOGE, and Musk’s agency has fired many of those who haven’t left.
  • The General Services Administration has also cut the 18F technology team, and has been doing mass layoffs at the Technology Transformation Service. 

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