All of which indicates that the only course of action is to keep checking your mailbox. The IRS has warned taxpayers expecting their payments in the mail to be on the lookout for the envelope and be careful not to mistake it for junk mail. Mailed payments may come in the form of a debit card or a paper check. You can see what the envelopes look like here. … [Read more...] about IRS stimulus checks: Painfully slow mailed-out payments frustrate many Americans
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Too little, too late: The cynical calculus of banning Donald Trump
Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Amazon, in deciding to deplatform Donald Trump over last week’s putsch, are neither moral nor immoral. They’re not resistance heroes for cutting bait, just like they weren’t crypto-fascists for the 99.8% of Trump’s presidency during which he weaponized their platforms. They’re amoral corporate entities whose political decisions are determined by everything but politics. To keep or ban Trump has always been a cold-hearted calculus of balancing risk and reward and nothing else. The ransacking of the Capitol tipped the scales. … [Read more...] about Too little, too late: The cynical calculus of banning Donald Trump
The pandemic recession could cause an enormous spike in homelessness
“Locked Out: Unemployment and Homelessness in the COVID Economy,” by the Economic Roundtable, looked at the impacts of the rise in unemployment on working-age people. It calls for a “massive intervention” to create jobs for unemployed workers now suffering from the worst year of job losses since World War II, with more than 9 million people thrown out of work. … [Read more...] about The pandemic recession could cause an enormous spike in homelessness
Bumble files to go public
The six-year-old dating app where women make the first move reveled its plans to go public Friday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. In its prospectus, Bumble reveled a net loss of $84.1 million on revenue of $376.6 million for the period between January 29 to September 30 of last year. In all of 2019, the company generated $488.9 million, up 36% from the year before. … [Read more...] about Bumble files to go public
The Capitol riot is spurring new interest in gun-detection AI
“Unfortunately our business does well when bad things happen,” says ZeroEyes CEO Mike Lahiff. Lahiff, an ex-Navy SEAL, says he started the business after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018. “I went into my kids’ school and I saw all these cameras around and asked what they were doing with them,” he says. A school official told him there were used mainly to identify students who’d stole something from a locker or been in a fight. “I thought, why not use those cameras to detect guns?” Lahiff explains. … [Read more...] about The Capitol riot is spurring new interest in gun-detection AI
