Notices by Joel VanderWerf 🐧 (joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social)

"Immigrants without legal status pay billions of dollars in taxes, many through a nine-digit code known as an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. For years, immigrant advocates and tax experts say, the IRS has consistently assured undocumented taxpayers that their information is confidential, and that it would be safe for them to file tax returns."

Goodbye to all that revenue.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-59056/irs-dhs-information-sharing-deal-immigrants-tax-records

@bruces Provincial capital: Solvang!

@chema Just joined for the first time ever a few weeks ago, and it sure is a cultural shift compared to Rainbow and TJs.

@selzero As a robot, I was always disappointed that so-called "romantic" novels had no antics involving rom.

@GottaLaff How else are you going to get personalized marketing offers from defense contractors?

"Starting to think about keeping all my data in the clod."

"You mean the cloud? isn't that risky these days?"

"No, I mean a micro SD card jammed into a clod of dirt."

@tk @Nimbius666 @selfsame They just want to stop us from throwing things at houses!

Talk to the bird who handles complaints. You know, the ombudgie.

@GreenSkyOverMe I'll bet SBF wishes he had thought of that.

@janbartosik @yurnidiot
Nah, Hardware Wars (1978) is the best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Wars

@mattly @technomancy

As a user, I'd be happy with a personal construction set for an algorithm, allowing me to compose things like "if an account whom I follow AND frequently interact with had a popular post AND I did not see it AND it was within the last 24h, then put it in my timeline." Just checkboxes and number fields, nothing Turing complete!

@Gargron We refugees from the birdshite should all go back there today and post "Who is John Mastodon?"