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As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats,
they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/poli

Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

The military branch behind Ukraine’s battlefield apps turns to weapons bureaucracy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/the-military-branch-behind-ukraines.html

I think the #strangenewworlds writers are having a lot of fun this season. I've enjoyed the first four episodes leaning into the campiness of the original series, before the #federation became too stultified by its aging bureaucracy. I'll even forgive somehow retconn ing in a mal…

It's time to audit the death bureaucracy (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3789116/time-to-audit-death-bureaucracy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p18#a250902p18

Sometimes I understand why people design new standards or formats when the existing ones can’t be extended (whether due to practical constraints, authority, or bureaucracy) or simply aren’t flexible enough to evolve. I think the XKCD comic doesn’t include that aspect.
And yes, maybe new standards will appear.
#nocontext

Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy.
Now he is well on the way to making that vision a reality
-- tearing up the constitution's system of checks and balances.
https://www.

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency: Russell Vought
Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode checks and balances.

I once again confused a US Customs bridge troll by knowing the declaration form off from memory and clearly having a better grasp on USCBP ag biosecurity requirements than he did. I detest bureaucracy, but as a necessity of my former career, I'm very goddamn fucking good at it.

People concerned with abuse of the UK asylum process (the provision of which is an *obligation*) should be demanding a more efficient and effective administrative process.
But since investing in a better bureaucracy isn't "being tough", our deranged media is incapable of calling for it.

But don’t take my word for it! The CEO of AWS himself said “firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is ‘the dumbest thing I've ever heard.’”
Now that •same• company is laying of 8.5% — 8.5%!! — of their core workforce because they’re going to (future tense!?!) “reduce bureaucracy, increase AI use?”
Nope. I call BS. That’s just investor bait.
They’re in hot water and they know it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

Slop at work is an act of self rebellion against bureaucracy and must be defended as a basic human right.

Why are authoritarian regimes so obsessed with “efficiency” and “cutting bureaucracy”?
Because bureaucracy is good, actually.

Interviews with 23 current and ex-AWS employees and others about AWS' challenges, including intense competition, internal bureaucracy, and lackluster AI efforts (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

House of Dynamite , recommended movie on Netflix about nuclear war in these times. Realistic, gives an impression how the bureaucracy works and how little time there is to decide. It also gives a good reminder there is no real effective defense against incoming ballistic missiles, at least not for 100%. When interested in the subject, this is also a good book to read, Nuclear War: A Scenario - Wikipedia

Nuclear War: A Scenario - Wikipedia

I joined Labour 3 times.Never again.
"Questions arise for members of the Labour Party. Why would one join a party where being a member means only paying subs and having no voice? Why would one join a party which is itself host to the enemies not only of socialism but of mild social democratic reform? Why would anyone on the left join an organisation that required you to battle the party bureaucracy before you could battle the true political opposition?"

How Trump Barreled Through D.C.'s Bureaucracy to Get His White House Ballroom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction-d1616a3e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p61#a251025p61

Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (Niki Kitsantonis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/business/europe-st…

Hoping to Grow in Europe, but Bogged Down by Red Tape
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.

Waiting at Walgreens for vaccines. 90% of everyone's time is paperwork and bureaucracy. 10% or less is healthcare.

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
https://ift.tt/eyH35qi
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate…
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Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

Homelessness is not a moral failure or an accident of fate, it is the direct result of capitalist property relations. Under a system where land, housing, and production are privately owned, the working class is alienated from its means of existence. People are cast into the streets not because scarcity is real, but because profit determines who deserves shelter.
The solution is not charity or state bureaucracy but the abolition of private property in housing and the collective organiza…

Vought promised to use the shutdown to shutter the bureaucracy. It didn't go as planned. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/hhs-shutdown-layoffs-doge-vought-00620786
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p38#a251025p38

Internal memo and a source: Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to cut bureaucracy (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/meta-superintelligence-tbd-ai-reorg

Exclusive: Meta slashes jobs in its AI operations
The superintelligence lab needs streamlining, per an internal memo from Alexandr Wang.

> "The UK government has leapt into the AI hype [...] including a Clippy-style assistant to help citizens navigate complex forms and legal jargon, rather than simply making them clearer in the first place.
"Simply" doing a lot of work in that snarky aside, eh?
It is hard to convey how much work - much of it beyond tech - has to go into making extant multi-stakeholder systems simpler.

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy
: Virtual agents to guide citizens through red tape – but not remove any of it