Looking for an outlet to place my more #tech-focused (and thus less #tax or strictly #law) policy writing -- anyone know of an outlet that might be amenable to a freelance contributor?
DMs are open, I'm a weekly columnist at Bloomberg Tax, contributor to Forbes Money, among some others. Looking for a tech publication that wouldn't mine hearing a tax/tech attorney and prof opine on things like the currently being contemplated #FCC AI rules, etc.
This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)
periodic reminder the Oregon Zoo has a beaver named Filbert that the let carry sticks and shit through the offices and they post videos calling him "the branch manager."
I aspire to have the demeanor such that the joke would remain funny after the first time I had to clear up beaver crap on low pile carpet, but I fear I never will.
Your guy probably didn't have the social safety net of MAGA, though. If Eastman doesn't get greedy he can do fine for himself and stay just this side of the law.
That said, I wouldn't bet against your outlined trajectory -- ego is the problem.
Reduced my thoughts on Copilot+ PC, as announced, to a piece for Forbes.
TLDR: Also we should think about compliance with things like subpoenas and how completely can anything ever be deleted with such a system.
The more I think about it, the less this seems like a well thought-out product for pros. Dreamed up by coders that already have had their life’s work sucked up by GPT through #Github.
Absolutely, and I'm guilty on all fronts of that as well - but you can at least attempt to listen to people in different situations about what is important to them vis a vis security and privacy.
Not lecturing you, just semi-venting. tldr: I agree
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News alerts just notified me that I'm included in a request for attorneys fees. Okay, so, back in late 2022, I was hired to serve as an expert/hybrid witness for a fraud class-action against #Apple, but when Apple found out, Apple flipped out & got me kicked off. Apple's response now to the motion mentioning me is apparently feigning amnesia & pretending they don't know who I am.
A lot of people who spent the last 10 years telling us that respect for the flag was the most important thing in the world suddenly don’t want us to care about who flies what flags how, I notice.
The fascism debate rages on: Here is why it matters, what the main contentions are, and why the arguments of the Skeptics are increasingly untethered from what is happening on the Right.
Great work lately (probably always, but I picked up your newsletter lately). Added it to recommended newsletters for Minimum Competence -- hope to send a few discerning readers your way.
Going to see Switchfoot at a free concert and some pickpocket swiping my wallet because i had on baggy shorts. But surprise surprise, there was no money in it and he popped back up like you dropped this. ( money was in my front pocket)
Boosting for #legal and #tech friends. Important and underreported issue.
Black taxpayers were between 2.9 and 4.7 times more likely to be audited by a data-driven audit algorithm. The IRS' response is that they're making tweaks.
This is insufficient.
Answers. Accountability. What happened? How did an algorithm exhibit decidedly human biases?
Yep. IRS just said they'll make the necessary adjustments -- nothing more.
The study I based my piece on is here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kA7CG3cLq6eWmwBVgTDOIMhxuGZwRJ5O/view). They do both, to a degree, finding the disparity across income and EITC claim status. Always possible there is some other intervening factor, which would be resolved if we got a look at the algorithm for audits. See attached grabs.