@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 03:57:27
Trump’s IRS chief reorganizes tax agency days before filing season
The Internal Revenue Service will reorganize its senior ranks
days before this year’s tax filing season opens
and try to use technology to become more efficient,
the Trump administration’s IRS leader Frank Bisignano told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Administration officials named Bisignano the IRS’s chief executive,
a role that does not formally exist in the agency’s governing structur…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-20 14:02:36
Raider Nation Reveals True Feelings on Drafting Future Quarterback https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-reveals-true-feelings-drafting-future-quarterback
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-21 01:22:59
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Flyying Colours:
🎵 Long Holiday
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https://flyyingcolours.bandcamp.com/track/long-holiday
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mH5ajIJz9fc3D3SaIIAEc
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-21 03:35:54
President Trump signs an EO to continue the suspension of the de minimis exemption, despite the SCOTUS' ruling that overturned most of Trump's 2025 tariffs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-imposes-new-tariffs-following-supreme-c…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-02-20 12:46:00
This is "interesting" - In a civil trial in which Elon M. is the defendant they are having difficulty finding enough unbiased jurors to empanel a jury:
Well, that's one way to evade liability: become so hated that there aren't enough people who don't hate your guts to form a jury.
"Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings"
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-19 19:25:58
Ted Sarandos says a winning Netflix bid for WBD would lead to more films in theaters because Netflix would distribute its films via WBD's distribution system (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-20 20:34:38
Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-19 19:21:00
Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backstop-300-million-…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-21 10:06:11
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 16:56:20
Trump promised Iranians the U.S. would rescue them.
They were betrayed.
Reeling from a crackdown on protesters in Iran that left thousands dead,
Iranians are now grappling with feelings of betrayal, confusion and uncertainty
after Donald Trump repeatedly promised to intervene on their behalf
and then declined to do so.
Some Iranians said in interviews that Trump’s words of support had added to their determination to resist the Iranian government
aft…
