Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The IRS could recover $12 for every $1 spent on scrutinizing the ultra-wealthy's taxes

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-tax-audits-recover-12-dollars-for-every-dollar-spent-2023-6

#BusinessInsider #IRStaxaudits #ultrawealthy #taxrecovery #governmentrevenue #financialscrutiny #Politics #News

The Productivity Commission has today added to the piles and piles of evidence we have had for decades about the devastating consequences of persistent poverty.

There’s a clear and immediate solution and that’s an Income Guarantee paid for with a fair tax on the wealthiest few.

We should be trying to invent online social spaces that are much, much smaller, and I think it's possible to do this without losing the benefits of large social networks:

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2023/06/19/groups-should-go-small/

#SocialMediaDesign

HOW TO SPOT A DEEP FAKE:

1. You can't.

Don't think you can. You can spot clumsy ones, but you've already missed a dozen others. We're past the stage where even _expert_ practitioners can have a 100% success rate.

Instead, think about how to avoid taking action, or trusting someone, because of who they seem to be. Holding onto the fantasy that "I can spot 'em!" is harmful, and moves the onus of responsibility from collective to personal.

This is also true for #genAI, of course.

@scirave @stux There's some reporting on the fact that they're facing increased regulatory scrutiny for monopoly power and their walled garden business model, so federation could just be a way of offering an excuse to regulators. I highly doubt scraping the Fediverse is a goal — the number of people on here is a rounding error for FB. Not worth spinning up a whole new product to get a few million new users in the system.

I'm sitting here watching this "Meta had an NDAed meeting with big fedi devs/admins" stuff shaking my head because I was one of the people who woulda been in the NDAed meetings when Meta, Google, and AOL did this exact same fucking thing to XMPP.

They're not even altering their playbook! This is EXACTLY how they "joined" XMPP then squashed it 2 years later.

EXACTLY. How can you be so gullible??

It's NOT platforms like #Facebook or #Instgram that join the Fediverse ⚠️

Meta is working on a new platform that intends to federate

So it's not everyone on FB or IG that joins but a new crowd probably

We have great moderation tools on Masto and other software that can cut them off within a second if needed

But let's not "block everything by default" but first check..

You won't be happt if your admin starts blocking things without even checking them first

The same rules apply to them also

Thanks to @Andrew for pointing me at https://calckey.social/notes/9f8fucbd3f which gives me pause-for-thought...

@lwriemen

When a company doesn't invest enough in employee training to ensure that low-level employees are able to respond to more than the most basic of questions, nor to pay them for the level of engagement that is required to answer those questions, it becomes necessary for customers to speak to the managers.

@lwriemen

One of the many nasty little trends in contemporary capitalism is called "skimpflation", where when costs start to go up, companies try to keep prices constant by silently reducing the quality of service provided.

I don't think this is something that we as consumers should accept. Refusing to ever escalate to higher paid levels of service enables companies to push us around in exactly that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZkO3y9_hY
Churchill was an utter bastard

This is Ellsberg's copy of the published Pentagon Papers, with his notes in them: https://archive.org/details/pentagonpapersde00beac/page/n1/mode/2up

the rest of his archives, scanned by Internet Archive staff in his home: https://archive.org/details/danielellsberg

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