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TL;DR > NYU academic gets some federal funding to make a supply chain security tool > A supply chain breach occurs > NYU academic says: If only the federal g
by AmericanChopper 6y ago
TL;DR
> NYU academic gets some federal funding to make a supply chain security tool
> A supply chain breach occurs
> NYU academic says: If only the federal government had compelled all it's vendors to use my tool, this could have been avoided
It's just a rather substance-less piece of self promotion imo. I do a lot of work in supply chain security too. Perhaps if the federal government had hired me, none of this would have ever happened. Can I have a ProPublica article too? /s
- xadhominemx 6y agoProPublica writers fall for these types of pitches all the time. They never do their homework - if something sounds bad to laymen, they’ll write a story stripped of context. It’s incredible.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoI see it as a broader problem of how scandalizing a problem plays out. Whenever a scandalous problem occurs, everybody is going to be interested in exploiting it to suit their own agenda. People are going to be heaping accountability onto their adversaries, which is how you end up with the bureaucratic tyranny of accountability avoidance taking priority over problem solving. You're also going to have everybody shouting about how the occurrence of the scandal necessitates the prioritization of their agenda items, how the urgency of the problem means reasonable analysis is not necessary, and how other priorities that may conflict with their agenda items can now simply be ignored. You can see this happen at all levels of society. I'm sure most of us would have seen a pattern like this unfold at work. But the media especially loves it wrt public interest scandals, because they're such solid revenue generators for them.