Hacker News with Generative AI: Bureaucracy

'We Just Want to Get Back to Work': NOAA Hurricane Hunter Speaks After Layoffs (gizmodo.com)
After mass layoffs at NOAA, meteorologist Andrew Hazelton finds himself in a bureaucratic no man’s land—fired, then reinstated, but still unable to work.
A man's quest to show the Social Security Administration he's alive and kicking (cnn.com)
Move Fast and Break People (thehandbasket.co)
When Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees arrived at work on a recent frigid day in Washington, DC, they found a long, snaking line outside the building where they typically breeze through security.
The Utopia of Rules: Technology, Stupidity and Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015) (theguardian.com)
At the start of this unusual and interesting book, which is subtitled “On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy”, David Graeber states what he calls the iron law of liberalism: any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.
When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
Nontra Yantaprasert couldn’t wait to take her husband’s shorter and easier-to-pronounce last name. She didn’t know what kinds of problems it would cause.
Bureaucracy Isn't Measured in Bureaucrats (astralcodexten.com)
An old tweet from Vivek Ramaswamy, now co-head of the Department of Government Efficacy:
Understanding how bureaucracy develops (dhruvmethi.substack.com)
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (2010) (jerrypournelle.com)
The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem (tricitypsychology.com)
Chinese civilization's longevity? Exams and bureaucracy (csmonitor.com)
Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape (theguardian.com)