{"id":71242,"date":"2025-12-02T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=71242"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:19:25","slug":"doge-has-evolved-from-chainsaw-to-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/12\/doge-has-evolved-from-chainsaw-to-ticks.html","title":{"rendered":"DOGE Has Evolved from Chainsaw to Ticks<\/strong><\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today’s headline at WIRED is a reminder of Billboard Proposal #2<\/a> . . .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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. . . which was posted here seven months ago, on March 8<\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now that Elon Musk’s chainsaw has evolved, this is not so much an I-told-you-so as confirmation of his so-far inescapable assault. Let us also not forget Billboard Proposal #1<\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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. . . which was posted on March 4<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today’s headline at WIRED is a reminder of “Billboard Proposal #2,” which was posted seven months ago. And now that Elon Musk’s chainsaw has evolved, this is not so much an I-told-you-so as confirmation of his so-far inescapable assault. Let us also not forget “Billboard Proposal #1.” <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wired-DOG-headline-bdr-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ix4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71273,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions\/71273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}