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2026-08-08 09:09 UTC
Enter NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has made "public excellence" the cornerstone of his politics, hiring the most skilled workers he can find and then giving them all the authority and resources they need to fix 100,000 potholes, bring New York's worst landlords to justice, and deliver every day for all the people of New York:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:10
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/ 23/