Dave Guarino's Occasional Newsletter | Substack

The use of knowledge in an AI (benefits navigator)

A kernel of a thought, verging on a draft

Nov 27, 2024 •

James C. Scott, metis, and why motivated reasoning is a good thing

Metis, legibility, miscellany

Aug 11, 2024 •

A broken SNAP call center gets comeuppance from the courts

Also: I have a new job; and some musings on agency in agencies

Jun 20, 2024 •

My meandering interview in Asterisk Magazine

SNAP procedural denials! Bentham and Hegel! PEIS! What more can one ask for?!

May 20, 2024 •

Friday misc: EBT theft indictments; a diatribe on power

Also: an FTC complaint against Deloitte over Medicaid disenrollments

Feb 16, 2024 •

Public choice theory, government technology, , and management problems all the way down

Thinking out loud about an incomplete (if pervasive) mental model of this stuff

Jan 24, 2024 •

State SNAP agencies are overloaded — what *actually* can be done?

Also: SNAP AI guidance, reading section 208 of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970

Jan 18, 2024 •

Fragments compiled after midnight

Florida forks California, LLM stuff, and does the AI EO have an appeals backdoor?

Dec 20, 2023 •

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