A machine cannot be held accountable, therefore a machine should not be making decisions.
Applications should be about two things: identifying the recipient and characterizing their needs. Inter-agency communication should be the norm, not an exception.
Related: we could dramatically reduce operating costs and improve outcomes of federal programs by eliminating application vetting and means-testing. If someone has "too much income" for a program, guess what! The IRS is gonna have a chance to fix that every year.
And, more importantly but rarely believed, it's an unnecessary exercise for the Federal Government. A better question should be how well targeted a program is going to be, and what to do about money that escapes containment.
For-profit healthcare and Healthcare-adjacent industries continue to be an affront to humanity and moral dignity.
If you're not already reading the two great webcomics produced by @alepresser.com@kbspangler.com, you should give them a look. This is the good stuff.
If another big tech company were backing Harris this unabashedly, Republican hacks would rupture their tracheas shrieking about it.
over the weekend X / Twitter took the @America handle from the original user who registered it the handle now belongs to Elon Musk and his Super PAC set up to support Donald Trump here's everything we know: www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-...
The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.
Oh, sorry, I meant the OTHER side of it. The scams themselves become easier to automate and mass produce. I didn't think LLMs would actually be *useful* in this context,I just worded my post wrong
Possibly relevant to some people stuck using Word because the alternatives aren't good enough for their purposes: not only is it a one-time license, the standalone version does NOT have Copilot integration, which is honestly a selling point
"The one-time license is an alternative for those who don't want to pay $69.99 annually for Microsoft 365."
If you're not a fan of the $69.99 annual fee for Microsoft 365, you can get a lifetime license for Microsoft's suite of apps for $149.99.
trump, who has a coin flip chance of becoming president, is proposing a deportation plan that could send the american economy careening into a second great recession. anyway hereâs the top story at politico
