"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Very annoyed at the people who decided to open the floodgates to online sports betting, it is absolutely a scourge. Great piece from Gabrielle Gurley on people spending hours a day on these predatory apps.
The Scourge of Online Sports Betting - The American Prospect
States and leagues must face up to the damage from app-based gambling for the next generation of bettors, most of them young men.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
that a former DOGE software engineer may have walked out the door with access to two highly sensitive SSA databases and intended to bring that information to a private sector employer.
March 11, 2026 at 4:06 AM
that a former DOGE software engineer may have walked out the door with access to two highly sensitive SSA databases and intended to bring that information to a private sector employer.
The mission of DOGE isn’t to “cut unnecessary spending”!!! It’s to gut the liberal state and attack Labor and racialized and gendered sectors of the public sector! Musk wants every federal worker pissing in basic bottles and using his chatbot software no one cares about “waste” you greasy idiot!
December 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
The mission of DOGE isn’t to “cut unnecessary spending”!!! It’s to gut the liberal state and attack Labor and racialized and gendered sectors of the public sector! Musk wants every federal worker pissing in basic bottles and using his chatbot software no one cares about “waste” you greasy idiot!
dude I hope something bad happens to the software sector
September 29, 2026 at 8:06 PM
dude I hope something bad happens to the software sector
Generally the revealed preference of the Trump admin has been that the US should be a petro state with a software sector and maybe some low value added manufacturing somewhere.
October 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Generally the revealed preference of the Trump admin has been that the US should be a petro state with a software sector and maybe some low value added manufacturing somewhere.
TRIVARIATE: “.. We are convinced that this much downside in Software likely means a year from now that many more companies in the sector will have lost money than analysts currently expect. .. We would remain cautious on Software.”
February 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
TRIVARIATE: “.. We are convinced that this much downside in Software likely means a year from now that many more companies in the sector will have lost money than analysts currently expect. .. We would remain cautious on Software.”
Ukraine’s defense sector expanded to more than 900 companies employing over 300,000 people.
They produce drones, EW systems, artillery, robotics and software that reshaped the battlefield while prioritizing protection of soldiers and civilians. #Ukraine
They produce drones, EW systems, artillery, robotics and software that reshaped the battlefield while prioritizing protection of soldiers and civilians. #Ukraine
April 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Ukraine’s defense sector expanded to more than 900 companies employing over 300,000 people.
They produce drones, EW systems, artillery, robotics and software that reshaped the battlefield while prioritizing protection of soldiers and civilians. #Ukraine
They produce drones, EW systems, artillery, robotics and software that reshaped the battlefield while prioritizing protection of soldiers and civilians. #Ukraine
"The private sector will ensure that government software is innovative and effective!"
The private sector: [charges millions of dollars a year for software untouched since 1999]
The private sector: [charges millions of dollars a year for software untouched since 1999]
July 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
"The private sector will ensure that government software is innovative and effective!"
The private sector: [charges millions of dollars a year for software untouched since 1999]
The private sector: [charges millions of dollars a year for software untouched since 1999]
all learning management tech is bad, all authoring software is bad, this entire sub-sector of tech is atrocious, abandon all hope ye who enter education or L&D
May 7, 2026 at 11:22 PM
all learning management tech is bad, all authoring software is bad, this entire sub-sector of tech is atrocious, abandon all hope ye who enter education or L&D
“.. Software currently makes up 13% of the Morningstar LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan Index .. more than double the share of the next largest sector.”
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February 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
“.. Software currently makes up 13% of the Morningstar LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan Index .. more than double the share of the next largest sector.”
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They've made it so you have to use private sector tax filing software
September 30, 2026 at 10:38 AM
They've made it so you have to use private sector tax filing software
"Now arriving at Now arriving at Sector C Test Labs..."
Software mode Half Life was how I first saw the game in 1999, and I do actually prefer how it looks to Opengl/3DFX'd HL.
Software mode Half Life was how I first saw the game in 1999, and I do actually prefer how it looks to Opengl/3DFX'd HL.
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Now arriving at Now arriving at Sector C Test Labs..."
Software mode Half Life was how I first saw the game in 1999, and I do actually prefer how it looks to Opengl/3DFX'd HL.
Software mode Half Life was how I first saw the game in 1999, and I do actually prefer how it looks to Opengl/3DFX'd HL.
Wave Two the Public Recruiting and Expansion
As the organization expanded, the National Design Studio began publicly recruiting software engineers, designers, product managers, accessibility specialists, creative directors, and operations staff from the private sector.
As the organization expanded, the National Design Studio began publicly recruiting software engineers, designers, product managers, accessibility specialists, creative directors, and operations staff from the private sector.
July 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Wave Two the Public Recruiting and Expansion
As the organization expanded, the National Design Studio began publicly recruiting software engineers, designers, product managers, accessibility specialists, creative directors, and operations staff from the private sector.
As the organization expanded, the National Design Studio began publicly recruiting software engineers, designers, product managers, accessibility specialists, creative directors, and operations staff from the private sector.
people are like AI's gonna be a 5 trillion dollar market, but if you replaced literally the entire software sector that's only like 990 billion, so like (??)
May 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
people are like AI's gonna be a 5 trillion dollar market, but if you replaced literally the entire software sector that's only like 990 billion, so like (??)
La inteligencia artificial (IA) ha provocado la mayor corrección bursátil del sector del software desde la crisis financiera de 2008. La venta masiva iniciada en EEUU, donde el sector cayó un 14,5% en enero, se ha extendido a Europa y ha golpeado a los principales grupos tecnológicos.👇
February 16, 2026 at 10:07 AM
La inteligencia artificial (IA) ha provocado la mayor corrección bursátil del sector del software desde la crisis financiera de 2008. La venta masiva iniciada en EEUU, donde el sector cayó un 14,5% en enero, se ha extendido a Europa y ha golpeado a los principales grupos tecnológicos.👇
This is a level of concentration risk unseen in any other software category we track. The companies in the top 1% skew heavily toward the tech sector and AI products and services.
September 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
This is a level of concentration risk unseen in any other software category we track. The companies in the top 1% skew heavily toward the tech sector and AI products and services.
If AI is radically reducing the cost of software development, why are we seeing no decrease in vendors’ bids for government software projects? In fact, they’ve increased in the past few years. Private sector folks, are you seeing price drops?
August 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If AI is radically reducing the cost of software development, why are we seeing no decrease in vendors’ bids for government software projects? In fact, they’ve increased in the past few years. Private sector folks, are you seeing price drops?
I don’t get the sense we are seeing a lot of rigorous work driving the AI ship. Not with people in the sector saying things like, most jobs are more like software engineering than the people realize.
September 30, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I don’t get the sense we are seeing a lot of rigorous work driving the AI ship. Not with people in the sector saying things like, most jobs are more like software engineering than the people realize.
i see you’re all discovering how broken public-sector software procurement is.
This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
August 6, 2026 at 4:29 AM
i see you’re all discovering how broken public-sector software procurement is.
also the software sector should be 50% porn, scams, and sex trafficking
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
also the software sector should be 50% porn, scams, and sex trafficking
The threat of artificial-intelligence tools has stirred fears about the future of software and what might happen to loans in the sector—but not all software companies are equally endangered.
Wall Street Is Sorting Software Companies Into Winners and Losers
The threat of artificial-intelligence tools has stirred fears about the future of software and what might happen to loans in the sector—but not all software companies are equally endangered.
on.wsj.com
April 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
The threat of artificial-intelligence tools has stirred fears about the future of software and what might happen to loans in the sector—but not all software companies are equally endangered.
reading about private sector polling software suites as an academic is like doing subsistence farming while looking up at jets whizzing above you, except somehow you are trying to do things that are somehow *more* complicated than them in some ways
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
reading about private sector polling software suites as an academic is like doing subsistence farming while looking up at jets whizzing above you, except somehow you are trying to do things that are somehow *more* complicated than them in some ways
The dumbest thing about all this is that smarter tech people actually do have relatively cogent perspectives on the public sector, because any piece of software that lots of people use is inherently a socio-technical system, and they get that. But these are not the smart tech people.
February 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The dumbest thing about all this is that smarter tech people actually do have relatively cogent perspectives on the public sector, because any piece of software that lots of people use is inherently a socio-technical system, and they get that. But these are not the smart tech people.
IBM warns AI boom is squeezing software budgets; shares slump in sector rout reut.rs/44ZISkP
IBM warns AI boom is squeezing software budgets; shares slump in sector rout
IBM said it had "faltered" in keeping pace with a shift in corporate spending toward data-center infrastructure from software and forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, the clearest sign yet of AI's growing toll on the sector.
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July 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
IBM warns AI boom is squeezing software budgets; shares slump in sector rout reut.rs/44ZISkP
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
The software group Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are likely to reduce its contributions to governments around the world for years to come.
The US-headquartered company, which has harnessed AI to secure lucrative work for the NHS and the Ministry of Defence, is growing exponentially. Continue reading...
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August 5, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts