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andrew

@andrew@esq.social

[he/him]

Tax/Technology Attorney
Admin @ https://esq.social open to all #legal and #law adjacent folks

Columnist @ Bloomberg Tax
Contributor @ Forbes
Bylines @ TechCrunch, Baseball Prospectus etc.
Adjunct Prof @ Drexel Kline School of Law

Bestie to @gina

https://lawstodon.org

#tax #tawlaw #tech #legaltech #law #lawfedi #baseball #economics #finance #fintech #history #politics #newjersey #pennsylvania #cabins #motorcycles #ebikes #podcasting #mastoadmin

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andrew, to legal
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Boosting for #legal and #tech friends. Important and underreported issue.

Black taxpayers were between 2.9 and 4.7 times more likely to be audited by a data-driven audit algorithm. The IRS' response is that they're making tweaks.

This is insufficient.

Answers. Accountability. What happened? How did an algorithm exhibit decidedly human biases?

#lawfedi @law https://esq.social/@andrew/112478649419844060

andrew, to law
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I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of , , etc.

Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

@law

andrew,
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@uhrmann

Yep, I agree. It is sort of like a cook that poisons some of the food at a restaurant. I'm not going to take their word for it that they have only put arsenic in the gazpacho.

I'm not interested in a nice warm bowl of the chef's finest "Totally Absolutely Poison-Free Broth" either.

andrew,
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@ron_miller

Like an NPU? Are the Copilot+ PCs actually shipping with significantly different hardware other than it being ARM? I assumed the NPU stuff was mostly marketing speak.

andrew,
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@gulovsen @law

I'm going to ease back in. My last daily driver linux distro was something like Mandrake 7.0 and I hope they've sorted out networking and sound now.

(I'm mostly joking, I know they have)

andrew,
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@_L1vY_

It just seems wildly misguided -- I mean I said "professionals" to be kind of a wide net catchall term, but even think of "creatives" (I'm using quotes because I'm not sure these are discrete categories of profession.)

Do you want your creative work being continually recorded and offloaded to some remote server to be chewed up? I know the functional reality is that is already going on for most, but this would eliminate the last (even purely theoretical) shadow to hide in.

andrew, to law
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A House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on sunsetting Section 230 is being held today.

One of those bad ideas masquerading as a good one by wearing a cloak made of legitimate complaints. Baby and bath water and all that.

#lawfedi @law

https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/bipartisan-energy-and-commerce-leaders-announce-legislative-hearing-on-sunsetting-section-230

tansy, to random
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'The chopped steak eaters: The people who profit from climate destruction have names and faces.'

Great article from Heated: https://heated.world/p/the-chopped-steak-eaters?r=1cje4

andrew,
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@tansy

Call it what you want, that’s a wet mess to me.

andrew, to random
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I mean … great. Yes. Do.

But this also feels like Dad buying you a swingset while the house is on fire.

I’m working on how to feel both of those things at once. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112484160031594121

andrew, to random
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Legal News for Tues 5/21 - Giuliani Creditors Want WABC Details, FDIC Gruenberg Resigns Over Toxic Workplace, LSAC New Socioeconomic Metric and Racial Bias in IRS Audits https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-tues-521-giuliani?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

andrew, to random
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I have no idea what a standard bog looks like and it does me absolutely no good when you continually compare things to one.

andrew,
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@roytoo

Ahh yes, bog imperial.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Issues have been experienced.

andrew,
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@hotdogsladies

“People are dead, families have been destroyed, time to get moving."

andrew, to random
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You are invited to every one of my future birthdays. https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/112462422417579358

CarlG, to random
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There must be some kind of mistake. The evidence phase cannot be over, because Trump promised us he would testify. And he is a man of his word, not a coward who chickens out. Right?

andrew,
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@CarlG

At this point I'm seriously considering moving my 12' portrait of him to one of my anterooms.

andrew,
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@CarlG

Ah yes, but does he have the face of a man for which regulation darts will do?

andrew,
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@hobs @mastodonmigration @CarlG

Well that’s not funny.

andrew, to random
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If schools ever roll out a class to teach you how to be Jim there is going to be a lot of confusion.

w7voa, to random
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The Community Notes feature of Twitter/X, rolled out in India just prior to the national election, is seen as a failure. https://nihalkrishan.substack.com/p/new-twitters-fact-checking-feature?publication_id=30790&post_id=144831635&isFreemail=true&r=1g77q&triedRedirect=true

andrew,
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@w7voa

One loss on an otherwise spotless record of wins for Musk.

Wait no that’s wrong.

andrew, to random
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You know it isn’t an accident because “unified Reich” is a stupid phrase even by nazi standards.

andrew, to random
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“Whether the audit algorithms contain overt racial biases or are coded to control for variables that inadvertently become proxies for race, the experience of the audited individual and their community is the same. An improperly audited individual or group of individuals won’t be comforted that a racially biased algorithm wasn’t meant to be so biased.”
https://esq.social/@andrew/112478649419844060

technocounselor, to random
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Maybe this makes me lazy, but if I hear, the app works quite well with voiceover, but there are a few areas where you will have to use screen recognition, I’m likely to look for another app. Screen recognition has always been a bit buggy and laggy for me.

andrew,
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@technocounselor

If anyone calls you lazy for this, please tell me their name so I can bean them in the head with a mushy tomato.

andrew, to law
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This is important.

“The IRS finally acknowledged this month what Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy research uncovered in 2023: Racial disparities in taxpayer audit rates have negatively affected Black taxpayers.

The IRS has committed to reevaluating the mechanisms that caused the disparity and refining their compliance approaches—but tweaking the dials on the algorithm is insufficient.”

#lawfedi @law

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/irs-racial-audit-disparities-need-accountability-to-be-resolved

andrew, to random
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Legal News for Mon 5/20 - Trump Testimony in Trial, CO Groundbreaking AI Law, SCOTUS Ruling on CFPB Funding, States' Plans to Build Solar Workforce and New Fed Reqs for Nursing Homes https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-mon-520-trump-testimony?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

jnv, to Japan
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Turning out to be one of those days I don’t feel like working but want to know everything about this kei truck craze!

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

andrew,
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@jnv @vwdasher

Those kinds of impulses are the driving force behind my fondest internet memories, going back to the mid 90s.

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