Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 6

@woutertrumpie similar, yes!

@courtney that’s obviously the goal. But the transition is the tricky thing, because credit scores were an attempt as a *more* fair system than just plain “we don’t rent to your kind”. So you have to have clarity on what you’re moving towards, not just what you’re moving away from.

@robmathers yep, that’s it.

@mdelaporta I would argue that they’re still doing that anyway.

@PlasticJohnny yep!

@MishaVanMollusq "none of us are without sin"

@mzagaja because the way the numbers are used makes permanence an anti-goal

The key thing here: if you are in charge of your new-style SSNs, you know which companies have which ones, and you could just give a freshly-generated SSN to (e.g.) a landlord. No history on that number? Not your problem. Experian/Equifax/TransUnion doesn’t have any data on that new SSN? Not your problem. Privacy is a human right!

Here’s my dream plan, which would take 5 years and probably less than $5B:
* We replace Social Secutity Numbers (which are like having a username with no password!) with disposable, single-use IDs of similar format, perhaps by adding letters so we have enough identifiers
* People could get a new number anytime from the Social Security Admin website or app, by calling a number, or by going to a post office
* Credit scores and credit info brokers are required to only have info you choose to share

@tay @waldoj @jik ah, then that’s great and the bug sucks 👍🏾

@tay @waldoj @jik I mean, we have content negotiation specs for that reason, no?

@waldoj @tay @jik material changes to outputs that affect site function, without consent or notice, are bad.

@beep some of those states are purple, though

Mmmhmm.

@darwinwoodka @anildash@threads.net because she agrees with him.

For the exact reason that so many democrats feel like "Florida is too red to flip", Republicans who feel like Florida is a safe red may feel safe voting for RFK.

If he pulls ~6% of the vote and Florida has another 77% turnout, that's 6% of 10,341,570, which is 620,494 RFK votes.

If that split is 60% Trump voters and 40% Harris voters, that means 372,296 votes Trump doesn't get.

Trump won the state in 2020 by 371,686 votes.

@fu @speitsch evangelism in all its forms is annoying and creepy!

@boogah lol I’m sorry, was too good!

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