Northern Manitoba mobile MRI unit parked in Thompson, struggling to keep staff, associations say
A mobile MRI unit intended to serve patients in two northern Manitoba communities has been parked in Thompson and is struggling to retain staff, according to two associations representing technologists.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/northern-mobile-mri-unit-staffing-9.7114955?cmp=rss
The #Trump administration is launching the #UnitedStates #TechForce to recruit 1,000 #technologists for #twoyearstints in #governmentagencies. The programme, which aims to modernise #government and win the global #AIrace, will involve private sector companies allowing employees to take temporary government roles. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Trump admin launches US Tech Force to recruit temporary workers after shedding thousands this year

Some of the recruits to government service will be on leaves of absence from private sector companies while working for government — a setup that raises ethical questions about conflicts of interest.

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Rezension zu: I. Milligan: Averting the Digital Dark Age

Rezension zu / Review of: Milligan, Ian: : Averting the Digital Dark Age. How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory

H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften
There's a reason I, and many other #designers, #developers, #technologists, #programmers use a plain text editor. I assure you it's not for #Microsoft #copilot

A letter to the American People:
https://18f.org/

"18F was doing exactly the type of work that #DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated.

When former #Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of #TTS director... he acknowledged that the group is the “gold standard” of civic #technologists... He repeatedly emphasized the importance of the work, and the value of the talent that the teams bring to #government"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #18F #News #USA

18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet

For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers.

Skilled technologists are being forced out of government

18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced

"Musk is not just destroying core #government functions, he is also destroying the actual #tech capacity of govt. Because there are, in fact, skilled #technologists who work in govt. They are not enough of them, & they lacked power to make big changes. They worked mostly in the US Digital Service and 18F... And now they are mostly gone."

#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA

Skilled technologists are being forced out of government

18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE

Can We Still Govern?

Some really horrible sh*t about to go down…

“At a broadest level, the concern is that #technologists are playing a role to monitor #employees & to target those who will be #downsized

“It is difficult in the #federal #government to actually evaluate who is performing well or performing poorly.
So doing it on some sort of mass automated scale where you think using some sort of #data analysis or #ai would automate that process, I think, is an invite to make errors.”#opm
https://apple.news/A0wVFiuyVTpW_MExDCZjInA

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management — WIRED

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Summit 2024!  

Join us at the Hotel Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, #Nepal, on December 6-7 for two days of connection, collaboration, and conversation with #journalists, #activists, #technologists, and others from around the world.

📝 Register at https://lnkd.in/eyaemwtK!

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Fausto De La Torre, Head of Enterprise Modernization, Platforms and Cloud, Europe, shares a memorable moment from putting the Radar together.

You can see the passion our #Technologists carry for the radar right here!

Get the latest volume of radar here: https://ter.li/vw1xnw

#TWTechRadar #Tech

Technology Radar | Guide to technology landscape

The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to today's technology landscape. Read the latest here.

Thoughtworks

"The defining political question of the 20th century was: “What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?”

The defining political question of the first half of the 21st century is: “How much of our lives should be governed by technology, and under what terms?”

In the last century, economists drove public policy. In this century, it will be #technologists."
#publicinteresttech
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/cybersecurity_f_1.html

Cybersecurity for the Public Interest - Schneier on Security