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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

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I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

#uspol

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Marissa Cummings 吳至佳
@marissaccc@zirk.us replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep Really powerful stuff, and so well thought through. 👏
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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@marissaccc Thank you much, Marissa. That really means a lot 💜
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paulathevalley
@paulathevalley@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep 100% 👏Thank you for articulating this so well
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep

https://penncapital-star.com/campaigns-elections/what-the-war-on-woke-tells-us-about-the-gops-power-play-for-2024-heather-macdonald/

Weaponized incompetence is a deliberate strategy.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/31/why-men-weaponize-strategic-incompetence-and-how-one-man-learned-to-stop/

https://www.verywellmind.com/weaponized-incompetence-7553422

https://www.theherohusbandproject.com/is-weaponized-incompetence-part-of-your-marriage/

Patriarchal marriage often ends in divorce because of this tendency.

Billionaires hire for incompetence deliberately because they want the government to be seen as burdensome & ineffective.

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Philip Kiff
@pkiff@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep Ironically, the phrase "America by Design" made me think of David Noble's book-length critique of the influence of corporate capitalism in the technology sector, titled America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism.

The book was published in 1977, so I guess that's another link that this initiative has to the Nixon era.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Noble#America_by_Design

#AmericaByDesign#Technology#Capitalism#Corporate#Fascism

Stark black and white cover of America by Design book with technical graph grid providing background fill of letters of the all caps title.
Stark black and white cover of America by Design book with technical graph grid providing background fill of letters of the all caps title.
Stark black and white cover of America by Design book with technical graph grid providing background fill of letters of the all caps title.
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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pkiff Oh my gosh, I’d never heard of this. Thank you so much for sharing it; it does seem (sadly) relevant.
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Philip Kiff
@pkiff@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep David Noble was a professor at York University in Toronto while I was a grad student there the 1990s, and I got to meet him and hear him and sometimes debate with him. He was a super animated speaker, interested in direct political action, always willing to listen to students. And his critique of the corporatization of academia was as sharp as his wit.
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Cadmus 🌲
@camless@m.ai6yr.org replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep Great article, thank you.
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Lyle Solla-Yates
@Lyle@cville.online replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep Thank you for bringing this level of care and thoughtfulness to one of what feels like millions of challenges. Design and accessibility do matter.
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Gale Fernow
@galefernow@dotgr.id replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep Oh hell yeah, Ethan!🫀
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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@galefernow Thanks, Gale! Miss you, hope you’re well! 💜
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Robin Rendle
@fonts@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep Great post! It’s also hard to imagine how a design team can hope to redesign American digital infrastructure when they don’t even know how to load goddamn italic fonts.
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scattershot
@scattershot@merveilles.town replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@beep

An excellent piece of writing. Thanks for sharing.

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