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Why One Developer Still Does Taxes by Hand

A developer describes their preference for manually completing taxes using Free File Fillable Forms rather than automated tax software. The author argues that hand-filing taxes is feasible, provides educational value about tax mechanics, and allows them to avoid using companies they distrust.

Political Systems Lack Tools to Govern AI at Scale

Regulatory frameworks move in years; AI deploys in months. Governments are reactive by design, not incompetence. Institutions built for 20th-century industrial oversight lack mechanisms to monitor, audit, or constrain systems operating at computational speed—effects spread before traditional oversight bodies detect them. Without concrete changes to agency staffing, funding, and authority (real-time audit infrastructure, technical hiring, continuous monitoring instead of post-hoc investigation), regulation becomes theater: hearings and frameworks that rarely prevent actual harms.