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IRS needs 11,000 hires to ‘maintain’ phone support for 2026 filing season, plans on 60% cut to IT staffing
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/irs-needs-11000-hires-to-maintain-phone-support-for-2026-filing-season-plans-on-60-cut-to-it-staffing/

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

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HyperCard was magnificent. Still is.
The HyperTalk language was cool — but even cooler IMO was the way the dev environment mixed code with direct manipulation of the UI. There are lots of problems with that approach for generalized Ui development, yes, but the experience of it was magical.
Unity and the like have a similar editor structure — edit UI objects, attach code to them — but the feeling is totally different somehow.
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We are now in the weeds on Hacker Summer Camp, so cut through the clutter and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw,
--Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini,
--OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts,
--Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system,
--Deibert warns of tech fascism,
--NIST with…

Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw
Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini, OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts, Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system, Deibert warns of tech fascism, NIST withheld AI report due to Trump fears, Air France and KLM hit by cyberattacks, much more

"A paper published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed drug seizures by law enforcement in San Francisco and concluded that such interdictions were associated with an increase in fatal overdoses in the surrounding area the next day."
Mayor Lurie's #WarOnDrugs 2.0 is not just failing, it's actively killing people. Public health requires m…

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

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No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

D4 is a mess because of incoherent alliances.
Engardio won by courting both urbanists (who skew progressive) and conservatives (who are car-brained). Now conservatives feel betrayed because he backed car-free space, while progressive urbanists who like car-free spaces still aren't wild about *him*.
Thus, he's likely toast in the recall. 1/

Recalls now ‘a thing we live with,’ political insiders say at Mission Local event
The insiders said Engardio is in big trouble. They added that new money, especially from tech, fueling city politics is behind recent recalls.

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?