Fragments: 34th Thoughtworks Technology Radar, what happens when developers don't read the LLM's code, DirectFile and tech in large organizations martinfowler.com/fragments/2…

Trump isn't running the government like a business. He's running it like a scam. The pattern is clear: Switzerland gifts Trump's a gold bar → tariff cut $1M from TurboTax → DirectFile killed $1M from Capital One → CFPB lawsuit dropped New analysis of Trump's corruption w/ @econliberties

ESP’s Future of Tax Filing Fellows — Chris Given, Jen Thomas, @merici, and Gabriel Zucker — helped build one of the most well-received civic tech tools in recent memory: IRS #DirectFile. For the past year, they've been documenting what has worked and exploring the next generation of public tools to expand access to tax credits. Huge congrats to @FedScoop's @MattBracken, whose profile of the fellow just earned a regional silver Azbee Award from ASBPE. 🏆 Read the profile here: fedscoop.com/direct-file-fut…

Democrats really love to force things on people. BTW Liz, the DirectFile code isn't even done or tested yet.

Happy Tax Day! You're paying a Big Tax Prep company like TurboTax to do your taxes because the Trump admin gutted the free and easy IRS tax filing tool DirectFile. Meanwhile, 88 corporations with $105B in profits paid zero in federal income tax. The system is rigged.

All of the free federal filing options are all inherently inferior to IRS DirectFile because the IRS already has all the info so they would just fill out everything for you. All the alternatives you need to provide a bunch of documents or enter a bunch of info.

taxprep lobby looked at DirectFile and declared a state of total war

head of CX at the irs and find ways for people to reframe paying taxes as something worthwhile. its inspiring how they do it in china by giving gifts and creating relationships with the public infrastructure and investments being made but for america. that and DirectFile

Next Democratic President should bring back DirectFile

Tax filing season has begun, but the Trump Admin took away the Direct File program that allowed you to file early and electronically. That's why I joined @SenWarren & over 160 of my colleagues in introducing legislation that would provide millions of Americans with IRS #DirectFile again, a free & easy tax filing option.

I’ve evolved a lot. I was a pragmatic neoliberal in 2014. I liked free markets, meritocracy, tech, globalism. Thought Obama was doing an okay job. Was a bit worried about AI, a bit worried about Woke, a bit worried about the global poor. I learned about EA in 2015ish, liked what I heard, but I recall that my favorite presidential candidate in 2016 was John Kasich. I liked America because it was a place where people could make their own choices and with brains and grit one could have a lot of impact and make a lot of money. I wanted to work hard and be clever and make a lot of money. 2016 I thought Trump was gross and morally broken. Woke was getting bigger though and I also didn’t like that. I was also very ambitious, and was upset with a college admissions process I saw as classist and racist (I didn’t get in anywhere very good). Most cleanly describable as a SSC-classical-liberal-semi-republican. But repulsed by Trump. As Trump went on it mostly seemed like he was full of hot air. A passing blip. But woke was rising. I found the obsession with equality of outcome, and the increasingly overt anti-white anti-male politics, to be worrisome. I thought they were wrong about important facts about the world and many seemed not to care about what was true. James Damore getting fired upset me a lot. I went further Right, but still never would have supported Trump. That was my red line. In 2020 I supported Biden reluctantly. I had graduated college and was working at a trading firm. I didn’t want another four years of Trump and thought Biden would bring a steady hand to COVID. Biden admin for me was a huge mixed bag. On the one hand: I thought the fiscal response to COVID was excellent, and I thought a lot of the small random policies - such as IRS DirectFile - were good. On the other hand, the admin’s approach to crypto and equity politics struck me as authoritarian. Woke was reaching a fever pitch and while there were kernels of truth in the ideology, it seemed overall false in totality and with the potential to destroy what I cared about (meritocracy, truth, freedom of thought and conscience). I also became substantially more disillusioned with EA in the wake of the FTX fallout. Stopped donating mostly, started eating pork again a year or two later. This was peak rightism for me. AI also became a big deal in early 2023, and I started worrying about job loss / power concentration. Trump 2025 hits and it becomes clear to me that there’s a faction in America that is done with liberalism and done with neutral principles of fairness. That faction is also in charge. Punish enemies, reward friends, use power to further grab power. There’s also an underlying cruelty to it - a love of dominance and hierarchy for the sake of those things - that I didn’t sense during the years of woke overreach. I’ve been in group chats where people are clearly just motivated by the most vile ressentiment. Government websites posting videos of ICE operations set to Sabrina Carpenter music. I find this demonic in a way that is hard to articulate verbally. I don’t feel like the 20-something Groypers staffing federal agencies are a part of my civic tradition. With AI the most powerful it’s ever been, the risk of a permanent lock on power is greater than it’s ever been. It grows greater every year. At the same time, the foundational thing that always pulled me away from the left - a believe in the inherent value and primacy of individual effort and intellect - is likely not long for this world. If we build machines that solve problems better than any human can, I can’t justify humans having power over other humans, nor can I justify other forms of inequality. So I think humanist center left ideology is most robustly morally correct in the present moment. At the same time, I think the modern right is the most cynical and dominance seeking its ever been. Didn’t come to this set of views easily.

Yes people miss DirectFile, which could have been scaled up for more states and capacity. In the meantime, AARP runs free tax clinics where trained counselors can help prepare and file your taxes.

Americans spend too much time and money filing taxes and deserve a free and easy-to-use filing option. That’s why @SenWarren and I — joined by 160 lawmakers — are introducing the #DirectFile Act to provide a free and simple tax filing option for all Americans. Learn More ➡️ sherman.house.gov/media-cent…

your taxes since trump killed directfile

source? i got the same money back on directfile than i would have on turbotax minus the fee to submit. i did both last year to check where i should file.. so, no.. you're not being truthful in my experience lol

op was talking about DirectFile, which operated entirely on the IRS website. That is no longer available starting this year. Not to be confused with FreeFile, which sends you to an external site.

Warren is saying that often, powerful interests grab ahold of regulations to protect themselves. She cites the IRS’s “wildly popular” DirectFile program and the tax filing companies lobbying to kill it.

If it’s the lobbying against DirectFile, why not just use that and supplement with an accountant? But if it were just that it would be bizarre of Rob to turn to paying one of the worst companies in the world, Anthropic, for an alternative.

美國國稅局「直接報稅」系統明年不再使用 11月3日，美國國稅局（IRS）通知各州審計長，「直接報稅」（Direct File）網站將在2026年報稅季停用，未來重啟日期未定。 epochtimes.com/b5/25/11/10/n… #國稅局 #IRS #直接報稅 #DirectFile