#bureaucracy — Public Fediverse posts

🚨🚀MIT's "brilliant" #strategy to combat a 20% #grad student apocalypse: a riveting 5-hour #video #recital of #funding woes by President Kornbluth. 🎓💡 Because nothing screams "talent pipeline" like lulling prospects to sleep with bureaucratic bedtime stories. 😂📉
https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-funding-and-talent-pipeline #MIT #Students #Talent #Pipeline #Bureaucracy #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🚀MIT's "brilliant" #strategy to combat a 20% #grad student apocalypse: a riveting 5-hour #video #recital of #funding woes by President Kornbluth. 🎓💡 Because nothing screams "talent pipeline" like lulling prospects to sleep with bureaucratic bedtime stories. 😂📉
https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-funding-and-talent-pipeline #MIT #Students #Talent #Pipeline #Bureaucracy #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🚀MIT's "brilliant" #strategy to combat a 20% #grad student apocalypse: a riveting 5-hour #video #recital of #funding woes by President Kornbluth. 🎓💡 Because nothing screams "talent pipeline" like lulling prospects to sleep with bureaucratic bedtime stories. 😂📉
https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-funding-and-talent-pipeline #MIT #Students #Talent #Pipeline #Bureaucracy #HackerNews #ngated

Starting Over

Adam Hinds

For years, I’ve written across different formats and through different outlets. One of my favorites has always been The Chaos Section. I enjoy the freedom that writing brings. But I’ve always lacked focus.

That changes now.

A Decade in the Nonprofit World

I’ve spent the past ten years working in and around nonprofit organizations, and I genuinely love them. I love the mission-driven people who pour themselves into this work. Not every organization is created equal, and some are certainly more transparent and effective than others. But in my experience, the organizations I’ve supported have consistently been led by people who carry the mission in their hearts. That kind of internal motivation is rare, and it’s contagious.

The nonprofit sector is also enormous. Nonprofits employ more than 12 million American workers, and the range of work they do spans education, healthcare, disaster relief, housing, food security, and nearly every other dimension of human need. These organizations have a long-standing tradition of propelling social movements in American history, from the abolition of slavery to women’s suffrage to more recent community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s not a small thing. 

There is a persistent frustration embedded in nonprofit work, and it would be dishonest not to name it directly: the pay gap.

By its very nature, the mission-first environment of a nonprofit yields lower salaries, at least below the executive level. Private-sector management occupations pay roughly 30 percent more than comparable nonprofit roles. In small nonprofit organizations, the median private-sector CEO salary was nearly two-thirds higher than at nonprofits of similar size.

For people drawn to this work by a sense of purpose, that gap is often accepted as part of the deal. But it shouldn’t be, and the field increasingly knows it. Decades of gradually narrowing wage gaps between nonprofits and private and government employers have come as the nonprofit sector’s size, market share, and economic clout have increased. There is still significant ground to cover. 

I’ve also worked in and around government, spending much of my career operating in and around the military. And while there are genuine exceptions, the pattern I’ve observed too often in civilian government work is one of comfortable inertia. A kind of entitled, half-hearted apathy where doing the bare minimum becomes the unspoken standard. The incentives are structured around tenure and process rather than results and impact.

This is not merely anecdotal. Common characteristics of inefficient bureaucracies include being costly and ineffective, slow to act, and self-serving, with inefficiencies often amplified by civil service laws and personnel cap limitations that restrict leadership’s ability to shape organizations. In its 2025 review, the Government Accountability Office identified 38 federal programs as highly susceptible to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. That figure has fluctuated over the decades, but has never reached zero. That should tell us something. 

Government has no place in social services.

Programs like medical care, insurance, housing assistance, and related social services do not belong under the purview of any government entity. They should belong to the nonprofit sector. Unlike the government, nonprofit organizations have the flexibility to respond quickly to emerging issues, pilot innovative solutions, and cater to specific local or niche needs. They are also better able to experiment with new approaches and respond quickly to changes in the environment. 

The evidence bears this out. Consider Direct Relief, one of the most efficient large-scale humanitarian organizations in the world. During COVID-19, Direct Relief delivered more than 82 million units of PPE, 173 million defined daily doses of vital medicines, and 36,000 pieces of diagnostic and intensive care equipment to partner organizations fighting COVID-19 worldwide, reaching organizations in 55 U.S. states and territories and 100 countries. No government agency matched that speed or scale of targeted deployment. 

Then there is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, perhaps the most striking example of what a well-funded nonprofit can accomplish. St. Jude has helped raise the overall childhood cancer survival rate in the United States from 20% to 80% since its establishment in 1962. In fiscal year 2021, St. Jude received $2 billion in donations, with daily operating costs averaging $1.7 million, and patients are never charged for their care. Eighty-two cents of every dollar received goes directly to support treatment, research, and future needs. That kind of efficiency and mission clarity is simply not achievable inside a government bureaucracy. 

When nonprofits face challenges, they are often the result of government-created friction rather than organizational failure. A national Urban Institute survey found that nonprofits reporting problems with government contracts, such as late payments, contracts not covering the full cost of service, and complex reporting requirements, were more likely to freeze or reduce employee salaries, lay off employees, and draw down on their reserves. The bureaucracy reaches into the nonprofit sector too, and when it does, it slows everything down. 

Charitable giving also rises naturally to meet real need. During COVID-19, giving increased in 78 percent of counties that experienced the greatest threat from the pandemic, particularly to human services charities that helped mitigate the pandemic’s effects. People, when given the choice, direct resources where they can see the impact. That is the market working in favor of human welfare. 

Where I Come In

My focus, moving forward, is to help nonprofits in every capacity available to me.

That starts here, with a renewed commitment to writing about, discussing, and advocating for better ways to support and strengthen nonprofit and community-focused organizations. Everything I produce from this point forward will serve one purpose: supporting the organizations that help others.

Some of that support will take the form of board membership and organizational leadership. My ongoing work with Scouting America is a good example of what community-rooted involvement looks like in practice. In 2023, Scouting America served more than one million youth and delivered over 7.1 million hours of service to the country. Since its founding in 1910, roughly 130 million Americans have participated in its programs, served by more than 400,000 adult volunteers. That is the quiet, sustained power of a nonprofit operating at scale. 

But I want most of my work to focus on consulting, helping organizations that are doing meaningful work put the pieces together more effectively. Whether that means strategic planning, fundraising infrastructure, board development, or communications, the need is consistent and urgent across the sector.

The content I create, through writing, podcasts, and eventually video, will all carry this same focus. I hope you’ll join me.

Adam Hinds is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Operations Specialist with 22 years of active and reserve service, and a current government contractor supporting the Joint Staff at the Department of Defense. He holds a Master of Arts in Conflict Management from Lipscomb University and a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from Middle Tennessee State University, and holds the Advanced Certified Nonprofit Professional (ACNP) credential. His nonprofit and civic work spans board service, operations consulting, and volunteer leadership. He currently serves on the boards of HELP, Inc. and Quality of Life, Inc., and works with organizations across the nonprofit, veteran, and civic sectors on governance, operational structure, and board accountability. Adam serves as District Commissioner for the Old Dominion District of Scouting America’s Colonial Virginia Council, Flotilla Commander for the Smithfield Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and holds national staff and leadership roles across several civic and fraternal organizations. He splits his time between Middle Tennessee and Hampton Roads, Virginia.

For comic relief: the charming bureaucracy of India Post.

https://medium.com/@aarohini/india-post-in-mysore-528bf0f7544d

#humour #humor #bureaucracy #Indianbureaucracy #Mysore #IndiaPost

🚫🤡 Ah, the internet's equivalent of a "Do Not Enter" sign: a digital bouncer rejecting you like an expired coupon. Apparently, merely existing can trip the overzealous security alarms of our oh-so-protective overlords. Just what we needed, another layer of #bureaucracy in accessing mediocre content. 🙄🔒
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/ #digitalsecurity #internetregulations #contentaccess #onlineprivacy #HackerNews #ngated

The #Yukon #Government is asking citizens to submit red tape issues. Good! There is an online form, but it is not easy to find:

https://forms2.service.yukon.ca/ca/en/ecdev/red-tape-reduction.html

They ask you to "upload any documentation to support your feedback", but then they restrict that to ".png, .jpeg, .doc, .docx or .pdf" - and only a single file, max 10 MByte.

Can't make that up.
#RedTape #Bureaucracy #YG

This is what comes to mind whenever I go to the courthouse. Being forced to clumsily surf the treacherous waters of bureaucracy the best I can.

Special mention to @DarkSheepArts for kinda obliquely encouraging me to draw this. :blobfoxfingerguns:

#Bureaucracy #KleineKunstKlasse #DrawingForFun #MastoArt #FediArt

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking

https://www.europesays.com/people/52829/ Jamie Dimon says bureaucracy sinks companies and the solution may be getting rid of the ‘jerks’ who don’t want to solve it #bureaucracy #employees #JamieDimon #JPMorgan

I just signed a work contract with an Austrian university over "0.28 SWSt"¹. The moment I received it, the work was finished one month before already, and the discretion clause is so vague, I could run into legal troubles with this post.

It's not the first time, I am annoyed by #bureaucracy here.

¹ for people outside Austrian academia, this is way "less than 1h of work per week"

@instantiatethis

The best boss I ever had ended up apologizing to me during one yearly evaluation for putting me in for a bonus.

Her evaluations were about the work and other contributions to the workspace, and ended up with a good talk about things coming up in the future to be aware of.

She always finished with goals for development and improvement ... but apparently you couldn't receive a perfect score if you had things to improve on.
And you couldn't receive the bonus without a perfect score.

The "compromise" was for me to be re-evaluated in 4 months and THEN get my perfect score and bonus.

My boss laid her head down on her desk after explaining this to me.

And I quit getting documented suggestions of things to work on.

#Bureaucracy #JumpingThruHoops

@mig Hlavně ta dle mého názoru (DMN) masivní korupce na emisích co vyloženě smrdí, stačí když jdu kolem víceproudé ulice s velkým provozem a puch je to nesnesitelný. Ve zkorumpované rozvojové diktatuře 3. světa Kambodži ulice se srovnatelným provozem a žádný puch s výjimkou když jede nějaký vadný náklaďák z kterého jde černý kouř ale to je jen občas a stačí ubrat plyn aby se tomu člověk vyhnul. A tam se neplatí takové daně za zkorumpovaný byrokratický aparát: do obratu 1 375 000 Kč ročně se nejenže neplatí daně ale ani nepodává daňové přiznání, o tranši výše je to daň 2,73% a žádné sociální, zdravotní, televizní ani rádiové výpalné.

Emise ani STK v Kambodži podle mě vůbec nemaj a přitom jsou tam emise do nosu bijícím způsobem v mnohem lepším stavu než zde, kde DMN občany byrokratický šikanát - totalitní digitalitní digitatura jenom šikanuje technickou a emisema, aby z nich mohla vydírat výpalné.

Opět se mi potvrzuje moje teze, že Česko je země 4. světa.

#czechia #czechrepublic #regime #czechregime #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitalitnídigitatura #byrokratickýšikanát #byrokracie #bureaucracy #4thworld #4thworldcountry #corruption #emissions #exhaust #car #cars #carexhaust #corrupt #corruptregime #contempt #taxes #complexity #costofliving #cambodia

The Evil Civil Service

Government workers are too easily cast as lazy and useless:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=515

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#bureaucracy #civilservice

"Our great task is to succeed in becoming more human."

"... we recall the blood that was shed, first on the one side and then on the other, and that all sides make up the blood that flows in our own veins."

~ Jose Saramago

Nobel prize-winning Portuguese author and a great describer of the stupidity - banality - of fascist #bureaucracy .

(Photo is an autoportrait taken in the Fundacao Jose Saramago, in #Lisbon, #Portugal )

#literature #reading #photography
#FensterFreitag

The German Bundestag initiated a measure aimed at speeding up the awarding of public contracts. A corresponding draft law from the federal government was subseq... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43000 | #news #boost #bureaucracy #business #designed

Apparently, Austrian customs/the post office have already started charging customs fees on applications sent from third-party countries to our admissions office.

This is... I don't even know what to say. And that's even before the applicants get to deal with our immigration authorities #ma35

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-agree-tax-cheap-packages-from-july/

#customs #bureaucracy #austria

Indian company converting diesel trucks to EV says the rules need simplifying.

Same here brother!

https://youtu.be/OlGxk4jHC2Q?t=297

#EV #Subsidies #Bureaucracy

🎉 Ah, #Brussels, land of #bureaucracy and world-class #waffles, where even an age-checking app gets hacked faster than you can say "bonjour." 🚀 Two minutes to break? That's one minute less than it takes for the #EU to form a subcommittee to investigate why apps keep getting hacked. 😂💻
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/ #Hacking #Cybersecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Innovation comes when there is a tender balance between chaos and bureaucracy, and not too much of either.
-- Brewster Kahle

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BrewsterKahle #Bureaucracy #Chaos #Innovation

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

🇨🇭🤖 Behold the Swiss AI #Initiative, where government grants 👩‍💻🤑 meet a timeline so glacial, even snails are embarrassed. A dazzling spectacle of #bureaucracy, they promise to fund AI #research by the next millennium! 🎉⏳
https://www.swiss-ai.org #SwissAI #Funding #SnailPace #HackerNews #ngated

Context: Bodies are a problem here. Forensics is backed up, some families can't afford funerals, etc, etc.

And you need special dispensation for cremation, so...

Just another hidden problem of bureaucratic systems that aren't based on reality that get corrupted.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/4/18/trinidad-and-tobago-police-uncover-56-bodies-mostly-children-at-cemetery

#trinidadandtobago #bureaucracy

Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy
#Canada #Immigration #NationalSecurity #Talent #Economy #WorkPermits #Students #Backlogs #Delays #Transparency #Accountability #Jobs #GlobalTalent #Bureaucracy #Labour #Federalism
https://the-14.com/opaque-immigration-screening-threatens-canadas-global-talent-strategy/

Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy
#Canada #Immigration #NationalSecurity #Talent #Economy #WorkPermits #Students #Backlogs #Delays #Transparency #Accountability #Jobs #GlobalTalent #Bureaucracy #Labour #Federalism
https://the-14.com/opaque-immigration-screening-threatens-canadas-global-talent-strategy/

Ah, the elusive "Human Accelerated Region 1" 🧠—a scientific breakthrough so profound, it's apparently trapped behind a user agent string and a hastily scribbled robots.txt policy. 🔒🖥️ Nothing screams cutting-edge #research like a page that redirects you to a bureaucratic black hole. 🚫📄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_accelerated_region_1 #HumanAcceleratedRegion1 #scientificbreakthrough #useragent #bureaucracy #technews #HackerNews #ngated

#Bureaucracy #UK Is it just a #British thing?
Endless and repetitive form filling. Asking for a friend 😎

Spanish farmer’s registry switch spotlights a very expensive paperwork loophole

1. Dear Cherubs, Spain has served up one of those stories that sounds like a parody until the form is stamped. According to Antena 3, a farmer in Almería changed the sex marker on his registry to female after being denied a PAC subsidy three times, and the switch reportedly added enough points to finally get the aid over the line.

The legal backdrop is not exactly mysterious. Spain’s 2023 trans law allows adults 16 and over to request a sex-marker rectification at the Civil Registry without medical or psychological reports, and once the change is registered, the person can access rights tied to the new marker, including positive-action measures for women going forward.

THE PAPERWORK LOOPHOLE

The awkward bit is that the policy aim itself is not silly. The European Commission says the CAP explicitly promotes women’s participation in farming, and its own data shows the gender gap is still real: 26% of farmers under 40 are women, while just 3% of farm holders under 40 are women.

In other words, the subsidy was built to correct a historic imbalance, not to become a speed-run challenge for anyone with a sharp eye for administrative fine print. Spain’s Agriculture Ministry also runs direct aid for shared-ownership farms, with the 2025 call set at 1.795 million euros, which is a tidy reminder that rural policy often arrives as a whole bundle of overlapping incentives, not one clean rule.

THE BIGGER QUESTION

So the real issue is not just one farmer and one clever form; it is whether the rulebook is specific enough to stop targeted aid from being rerouted by bureaucratic creativity. The law clearly allows a registered change of sex, and the CAP clearly allows gender-focused support, but when those two systems meet, the seams are visible enough to make everybody in the room reach for a coffee and a red pen.

That is the quiet little scandal here: a policy designed to fix inequality can look very different once it is filtered through a registry office, a points system, and the universal human gift for reading the loophole before the memo. For the politics-and-public-reaction angle, thisclaimer.com is another place to follow the wider debate.

Sources list
Antena 3 — https://www.antena3.com/noticias/economia/agricultor-cambia-sexo-acceder-ayudas-pac-despues-que-denegaran-tres-ocasiones_2026032669c56fbe6b2f883592582751.html
BOE (Ley 4/2023) — https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2023-5366
European Commission — https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/overview-vision-agriculture-food/women-farmers_en
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación — https://www.mapa.gob.es/es/desarrollo-rural/temas/igualdad_genero_y_des_sostenible/titularidad_compartida/subvenciones-directas-a-las-explotaciones-agrarias-de-titularidad-compartida
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
Wikimedia Commons image source — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almonds_plantation_and_farm,_Alhama_de_Granada,_Andalusia,_Spain.jpg

Ah, the French government finally decided to ditch Windows for #Linux in a dazzling display of digital sovereignty... because nothing screams efficiency like bureaucrats learning a new operating system! 😂 Vive la commande terminal, mes amis! 🖥️🇫🇷
https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ #FrenchGovernment #Transition #DigitalSovereignty #TechHumor #Bureaucracy #HackerNews #ngated

🎬 Ah, the American #Society of Cinematographers strikes again, paddling through an alphabet soup of bureaucratic jargon to "create" a "futurescape" with more committees than a government office. 😴 Just what the world needed—another #club where you can pay to feel important and pretend you're in a sci-fi movie. 🛸
https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element #Cinematography #Bureaucracy #Futurescape #SciFi #Membership #HackerNews #ngated

@DoomsdaysCW "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@DrALJONES "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@DrALJONES "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@DrALJONES "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@GurgelSegrillo "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@adachika192 @[email protected] @[email protected] "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@DrALJONES "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@DrALJONES "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

@memeorandum "Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

RE: https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/116324150362418849

"Elements of the digital ID system can also be weaponized by freezing ID cards, numbers, or profiles; limiting access to certain processes, spaces or services based on personal characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, or location; or using personal identity information to introduce forms of algorithmic profiling."

"mandatory enrollment and mandatory use requirements have been shown to particularly affect vulnerable and marginalized groups, including: ethnic, religious, racial or national minorities; stateless persons; migrants; Human Rights Defenders;"

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY COALITION Common Position Statement on Mandatory Digital IDs:

https://hr4id.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/HR4ID-Coalition-Statement-on-Mandatory-Digital-ID_May2025-1.pdf

#contempt #francescaAlbanese #abuse #authoritarianism #digitalization #creditcard #banking #weaponizedbanking #weaponizedbureaucracy #bureaucracy #aml #amlcft

Yet more evidence that America's unreasonable regulations are a national security threat. This unduly red tape does nothing to serve the national interest ... or the common good.

https://reason.com/2026/03/21/chinas-rare-earth-dominance-was-made-in-america/

#bureaucracy #China #freeTrade #geopolitics #governmentFailure #nationalInterest #nationalSecurity #overregulation #permits #rareEarth #UnitedStates

🚦 Ah, the ol' "more cooks in the kitchen" conundrum, except now it's "more layers of review" — because everyone knows #bureaucracy is the true sport of #champions. 🏆 Apparently, assembling a human pyramid of red tape doesn't speed things up? Who knew! At least now we have an equation to validate our #procrastination. 📈
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316 #humanpyramid #layersofreview #redtape #HackerNews #ngated

ALLES IN ORDNUNG

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1881116/alles-in-ordnung

A quotation from Hyman Rickover

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.

Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) Polish-American naval engineer, admiral [b. Chaim Gdala Rykower]
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/rickover-hyman/3283/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hymanrickover #bureaucracy #forgiveness #God #offense #sin #vengeance

A quotation from Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) American politician, poet, activist
Quoted (1979-02-12), “People: On the Record” section, Time Magazine

More about this quote: wist.info/mccarthy-eugene/5915…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eugenemccarthy #bureaucracy #efficiency #executivepower #friction #government #inefficiency #liberty #operations #power #redtape

Welcome to the Consumer Council's dazzling maze of red tape and recycled advice! 🎉🔍 While their "Break Free" guide promises liberation from confusion, it’s more like a scavenger hunt through bureaucratic jargon and endless links. 🚪🔗 But hey, if you're into reading aimless lists instead of actually getting help, this is your jackpot! 🎰🏆
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ #ConsumerCouncil #RedTape #Bureaucracy #BreakFree #ScavengerHunt #Advice #HackerNews #ngated

Welcome to the Consumer Council's dazzling maze of red tape and recycled advice! 🎉🔍 While their "Break Free" guide promises liberation from confusion, it’s more like a scavenger hunt through bureaucratic jargon and endless links. 🚪🔗 But hey, if you're into reading aimless lists instead of actually getting help, this is your jackpot! 🎰🏆
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ #ConsumerCouncil #RedTape #Bureaucracy #BreakFree #ScavengerHunt #Advice #HackerNews #ngated

Welcome to the Consumer Council's dazzling maze of red tape and recycled advice! 🎉🔍 While their "Break Free" guide promises liberation from confusion, it’s more like a scavenger hunt through bureaucratic jargon and endless links. 🚪🔗 But hey, if you're into reading aimless lists instead of actually getting help, this is your jackpot! 🎰🏆
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ #ConsumerCouncil #RedTape #Bureaucracy #BreakFree #ScavengerHunt #Advice #HackerNews #ngated

Welcome to the Consumer Council's dazzling maze of red tape and recycled advice! 🎉🔍 While their "Break Free" guide promises liberation from confusion, it’s more like a scavenger hunt through bureaucratic jargon and endless links. 🚪🔗 But hey, if you're into reading aimless lists instead of actually getting help, this is your jackpot! 🎰🏆
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ #ConsumerCouncil #RedTape #Bureaucracy #BreakFree #ScavengerHunt #Advice #HackerNews #ngated

The new "tariff loyalty law" introduced by federal Labour Minister Bärbel Bas (SPD) misses the mark for small and medium‑sized businesses, Rainer Kirchdörfer, c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=35988 | #news #bureaucracy #cite #companies #german

The new "tariff loyalty law" introduced by federal Labour Minister Bärbel Bas (SPD) misses the mark for small and medium‑sized businesses, Rainer Kirchdörfer, c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=35988 | #news #bureaucracy #cite #companies #german