I am confused.

This will always and forever be my favorite museum nature diorama:

I applaud the accuracy of the bullet holes in the NO LITTERING sign.

🔗 Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers - The American Prospect:

According to a report by the Associated Press this week, the IRS is moving to shut down its free tax filing program known as Direct File, with employees working on the program told to stall work on future iterations. The news comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and the biggest player in tax preparation software, spent years tirelessly fighting any attempt by the government to bring the nightmarish American system of tax collection into line with European nations that have streamlined most citizens’ filing process down to the click of a button.

After seeing a few references to it (and against my better judgement), I listened to the latest episode of the NYT’s Hard Fork podcast, in which Casey Newton and Kevin Roose talk to one of the guys behind this new “A.I. 2027” thing. My main takeaways are:

1. Hard Fork is an extraordinarily dumb podcast.
2. There is a group of people who will fall for almost anything if you dress it up with the trappings of high-concept science fiction.

Have we forgotten that Roose is the person who, on his first interaction with Microsoft’s shitty Bing chatbot, managed to convince himself it was conscious and had fallen in love with him?