@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-22 22:34:40
The ultrarich mostly aren’t escaping the tax system through exotic loopholes.
They mostly increase their fortunes with and spend regular taxable income
— salaries, dividends, interest, business profits, realized capital gains
— and they earn a lot of it.
This means the most powerful lever is also the simplest one.
Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6 percent
— which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied t…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-05-22 01:02:33
RE: https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/116609310065016685
'That contract is now broken. Generative UI doesn’t link to your article. It absorbs your article, synthesizes it into a widget, and presents it as Google’s own answer.'
Let that sink in (and read the complete article first.)
Let this be Google's "altavista" moment.
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-22 12:01:18
NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, for $35M in total funding (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/06/22/andreess…
@macandi@social.heise.de2026-05-20 08:21:00
Firmensprecher: Varta verliert Apple als Kunden
Bei Varta in Nördlingen fällt der „Ankerkunde“ weg: Der iPhone-Hersteller will keine Batterien mehr kaufen. Die Hintergründe sind unklar.
https://www.
@outer@mas.to2026-06-21 15:18:15
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-- Henry David Thoreau, from "Walden; or, Life in the Woods"
True or not--it's impressive poetry, if you read it while impressionable.
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
-- Henry David Thoreau, from Journal entry, 5 August 1851.
Now...make an answer to the question, and post it!
#Thinking
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-05-20 15:50:41
"Maria and Peter are students and meet up for a late dinner. Peter asks Maria whether Tom is at the party that they intend to go to after dinner. Maria answers that Tom is at the party. After all, Tom had told her that he would be at the party. When they arrive at the party, it turns out that Tom had changed his plans, and is not at the party. Was Maria's answer true or false?"
#truth
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-06-18 11:16:02
This is a statement World Central Kitchen made a month ago about their operations in #Gaza. Since then, they've cut their Gaza operation by half, and laid off a lot of staff; and many people I'm in touch with in Gaza who were depending on food from them are no longer getting it.
/Continued
@krasse_eloquenz@literatur.social2026-04-19 08:22:16
Ich gehöre einem Verein an, bei dem es für kleines Geld anwaltlichen Rat von Rechtsanwältïnnen gibt. Dazu bucht man im Voraus ein Beratungsfenster.
Nun ist es gleich zweimal vorgekommen, dass mich die Anwälte mit einer 40-minütigen Verspätung angerufen haben. Beide Male ist man auf die enorme Verspätung mit keinem Wort eingegangen, unabhängig davon, ob ich neutral oder verärgert war. 1/2
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-04-19 06:53:12
@… I found answers in the most obvious place 🙂 <https://bubbles.town/about#how>, and <
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-06-16 09:35:08