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2026-08-08 09:10 UTC
Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services:
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/transcript--mayor-mamdani-launches--public-interest-technology--
Writing for *Wired*, Steven "Hackers" Levy paints a portrait of New York's PIT Crews, describing them as "what DOGE should have been":
https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:10
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. 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. 24/