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My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop

It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.

(Don’t hold your breaths.)

Aral Balkan · Careless peopleNotes from “Careless People: A story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness.” by Sarah-Wynn Williams
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The potential to more than double the scope of #Trump’s #tariffs has alarmed economists & some congressional #Republicans, while other WH allies are concerned about the logistical challenges of a complicated new #import #tax regime. The precise nature of these new duties has spurred extensive discussions at the highest levels of the admin, w/VP #JDVance, #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick, WH aide #PeterNavarro & #Treasury Secy #ScottBessent all playing a role in the talks….

The #IRS will end leases or close offices at 120 sites

The leases of ~120 IRS offices across the country will be terminated or allowed to expire, including sites that provide #taxpayer services….

The latest plan to end leases of IRS offices — which include public-facing taxpayer service centers— comes in the middle of #tax season, when the IRS expects >140 million tax returns to be filed by April 15.

#law #Trump #Musk #DOGE #layoffs #chaos #PublicDisservice #USpol
apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, is greeted by President Donald Trump as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
AP NewsLive updates: Trump meets with UK's prime minister Starmer about drifting US support for UkraineBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer is visiting the White House to try to convince President Donald Trump that a lasting peace in Ukraine will endure only if Kyiv and European leaders are at the table as negotiations move forward with Moscow.
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Acting IRS Commissioner Is Expected to Announce His Retirement

Doug O’Donnell, a 40-year veteran of the IRS, was elevated last month after the last commissioner stepped down at the beginning of Trump’s term.
nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/poli

"departure comes at a turbulent time... w/ore than 6,700 employees dismissed last week. #Musk has suggested the #IRS should be abolished... deployed a member of his so-called #DOGE to the agency

...moves that #tax experts warn could increase the #deficit"

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In democratic societies, we agree that the state should be the extension of the needs of the people. We pay #tax and in return the state takes care of our most basic needs. In the digital age our basic needs also include the digital.

The #digital domain is not like the physical land we used to build our homes on. It is not a scarce indivisable resource that need be the domain of private property only

8/

just watched this #38c3 talk "Der Milliarden-Steuerraub Cum/Ex
Wie schädlich ist Wirtschaftskriminalität für unsere Gesellschaft?" by ex-Prosecutor Anne Brorhilker: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-der-millia

(english and french translations available)

the standing ovations at the end of the talk are more than deserved. this woman is a hero, we need more like her and she deserves all our support.

Fuck you, you fucking douchebag.

You want people to have more #children?

#Healthcare. #Housing. #Daycare. #Maternity and #paternity leave. #Child #tax credits. A #livingwage. Four day workweek. Etc.

Nah: deny #women the right to have an #abortion and make everyone #poor and desperate, right? Goddamned #plutocrat assholes.

Plus, you raised an absolute festering pustule of a son, #ElonMusk. So don't you dare lecture anyone about #parenting, Cruella.