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Algorithmic Taxes: An Automated Tax System

arkady2025-06-04Politics

If you’re a flat-tax advocate, then you may want to stop reading this one now; it won’t be good for your blood pressure to continue. ‘Cause progressive-rate systems are fairer. OK, now that they’re gone: progressive-rate income taxes are more…

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Fragile Empires: Falling Slowly At First, Then All At Once

arkady2025-06-03Culture Politics

Everything happens faster in the modern world than it used to. This is natural. It’s basically a side-effect of more advanced technology. Communications are faster; transport of people and goods is faster. Change, even, in infrastructure and society is faster.…

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Attack Of The Drones: This Is Gonna Change A Lot Of Things

arkady2025-06-02Technology

Ukraine had already demonstrated that cheap, almost consumer-class, drones can be a major factor in modern warfare. But this weekend, they took it to a whole new level. In case you haven’t seen the news yet, over the weekend Ukraine…

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All Mixed Up: U.S. Law Needs A Procedural Re-Think

arkady2025-05-30Culture Law

I don’t want to think about the ongoing coup this morning, so here’s something that’s been bouncing around in my head for a while. We need to change how the U.S. legal process works. Currently, the actual process of making…

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Tariff Limits: A Long Time Coming, A Longer Time Going

arkady2025-05-29Law Politics

It took almost 2 months, but a court has finally ruled that Trump’s Libation Day tariffs are illegal and unconstitutional. And now … the inevitable appeals. So, ya know, don’t start celebrating yet. The illegal part is simple: the law…

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Unitary Executive: Proving The Anti-Federalists Were Right

arkady2025-05-28Culture Law Politics

OK, it took over 200 years to get to this point, but with the Supreme Court’s turn to the bogus “Unitary Executive” concept it looks like the Anti-Federalist position is being proved correct. So, yay? Predicting that a strong central…

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Generative AI And Government Reform: Two Bad Tastes That Taste Horrible Together

arkady2025-05-27Law Technology

I have no idea whether the idiots responsible for all the “AI in Government” initiatives actually believe that AI is real or not, but it doesn’t really matter. Dupes or frauds, they’ll wreck this country either way. But to be…

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Tax Everyone: No More Religious Exemptions

arkady2025-05-23Culture Law

It’s time to stop pretending that churches are special. They are, in essence, social clubs for people who share some common belief. Like the Elks or the Masons, but with a side of actually believing that the rituals do stuff…

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You Should Read This: The Era Of The Business Idiot

arkady2025-05-22Culture Read This Technology

Ed Zitron has been on something of a tear lately. And I am here for it. I don’t agree with everything he says. This is mostly because I think he’s too generous in saying that LLMs surely have some practical…

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Trumpian Follies: Continent-sized Missile Defense Is Fools Gold

arkady2025-05-21Politics Technology

Donald Trump has … a thing … about nuclear war; it’s clear that the Cold War left a lasting impression on his psyche. And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! – Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor…

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