There's a difference between being rude and direct. In open source, feelings have become weapons against progress. Rudeness isn't the problem—it's the cure.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
When the second Trump administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) started gutting the IRS, aiming for a 40% reduction in its workforce, critics rightly anticipated that such actions would impact economic inequality. Trump, Musk, and the many other billionaires in the administration could sleep soundly knowing that the few remaining IRS agents would have […]| Articles – Contexts
CAdES is a digital signature standard that is used and sometimes mandated, by the Italian Public Administration. To be able to do my job, I own a Carta Nazionale dei Servizi (CNS) with which I can generate legally binding signatures. Now comes the problem of finding a software to do it. Infocamere Firma4NG InfoCamere are distributing a software called Firma4NG, with a Linux option, which, I'm pleased to say, seems to work just fine. Autofirma AutoFirma is a Java software for digital signature...| Enrico's blog
Navigate bureaucracy in Spain with ease! This essential Expat guide covers the NIE, TIE, Padrón, and tax IDs offering tips for smooth Spanish paperwork| Moving To Spain
A response to Khoa Sands ’26 On July 2, 1881 — exactly 105 years after the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from Great Britain — President James A. Garfield was shot by a disgruntled, and likely schizophrenic, lawyer named Charles J. Guiteau. During the 1880 campaign cycle, an unknown Guiteau had supposedly delivered [...] The post Democracy in America, Not Bureaucracy in America first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Bureaucracies are usually too self-serving to get partisan. The consequences of bad data are high, and error rates are pretty low — no matter who is president.| thedailyeconomy.org
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2930 from 27 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you so much! – Tom Dear friends, I recently had a fascinating conversation with Anthropic’s generative AI Claude (Sonnet-4 version). The full transcript (if you’re interested) can be found …| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
In FY 2024, over 200,000 Freedom of Information Act requests were backlogged, according to the Government Accountability Office.| Reason.com
He seems to have the most essential virtues, and perhaps the corresponding vices, demanded by the present crisis.| The American Mind
The Certificado de Empadronamiento is one of the most important Spanish documents and arguably the easiest to obtain. Here's how to get one.| Moving To Spain
by Inger Mewburn Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It’s a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently …| SRHE Blog
Either America will be guided by constitutionalism or by the historicist understandings of the revolutionary Left.| The American Mind
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr. posed that question […]| Broad + Liberty
Find out how to get an NIE number for Spain, why you need it, and the steps to apply. An essential read for expats to live and work legally in Spain.| Moving To Spain
Myths are powerful things — so powerful that one has been endorsed by the Supreme Court and now has the federal government by the throat. Its effects will be far-reaching and, at times, disastrous…| White House Chronicle
Are we are own worst enemy? The post Reusable KYC: when a dedication to decentralization self-sabotages appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
Are we our own worst enemy?| Generative Identity
Bush II was actually the disastrous presidency that current liberals claim that Trump is. The enormity of the Iraq War fiasco alone boggles the mind. The trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and the social trust that was wasted and stolen by that lie. Trillions and trillions of dollars were pissed away; they could have paved the streets in gold here with all that; free college or free meds for every fat Boomer smoking cigs in an Indian casino, border wall too, I don’t know,...| Tanner Hauser
Throughout The Double Golyadakin gets himself into trouble because he’s never sure how to express himself in public—outside his own head, or outside his own internal monologue. He doesn’t know how to present himself socially—or, in a contemporary phrasing, he doesn’t know which self to present, struggling as he is with a decaying class system, stagnant bureaucracy, Godlessness, materialism, precarity, and dread—all of which have rendered him incapable of appropriate behavior, or e...| Tanner Hauser
From my travels and conversations with americans I suspect most of your countrymen do not realize how poor the actual living conditions of the middle class are in America. In Spain an employed engineer in his early 40s with 15 years experience might make about 40k/year, wich is probably half, or a third, of what his american counterpart makes, yet the spaniard enjoys a much better quality of living. This is true for a 1 1/2st world nation like Spain, but it is much truer in 2nd world nations ...| Tanner Hauser
Covering systems thinking and context, agency, hard borders, trust, trust triangles, and governance.| Generative Identity
Questa settimana ho deciso di attivare lo SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale).| Michele Bologna
