S.M. Mack

@whatsmacksaid
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Dog person, co-host of the Infinite TBR podcast, Clarion alum, MFA from USM Stonecoast. She/her, opinions my own. IG: @infinitetbrpodcast; everywhere else is @whatsmacksaid.

IRS to offer free tax filing in competition against much-criticized TurboTax

IRS Direct File pilot in 2024 is for taxpayers with simple returns in 13 states.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/irs-to-offer-free-tax-filing-in-competition-against-much-criticized-turbotax/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

IRS to offer free tax filing in competition against much-criticized TurboTax

IRS Direct File pilot in 2024 is for taxpayers with simple returns in 13 states.

Ars Technica
This morning a woman walked out onto the street in front of me without looking and I just went around her and everyone went on with their day, because I was going 15 km/h on a bike and not driving a 1500 kg tank through a city at 50 km/h
Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
This seems like a poor name for food. Craven pizza 😆

PHEW, got this month's newsletter out on time! I talk (gush) about Cassandra Khaw's "The Salt Grows Heavy" and Isabel Cañas' "The Hacienda," and you can read it here: https://clt1337879.bmeurl.co/FE1771A

(There are also pictures of capuchins in Costa Rica. 🐒 They're an uneasy combination of unnerving and adorable. )

What Smack Said #25

Delighted to be part of this essential conversation about global inequalities in the SFF publishing industry.

There's a lot of work to be done, but a lot of reason to hope too.

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/a-not-so-swiftly-tilting-planet-global-inequities-in-sff-publishing/?fbclid=IwAR30oslrtEN6Iw-EpTwkXr39G6Aqi3ZUKBWmWTY8wIk8vhq2eO7nPc7maUo

A Not-So-Swiftly Tilting Planet: Global Inequities in SFF Publishing

Back in 2005, the journalist Thomas L. Friedman championed the wave of globalisation in the 21st century in his book The World Is Flat. Today, that title’s more notable for its shortcomings than it…

Strange Horizons
OUCH 😂
Hey! If you are not buying your books at bookshop.org, may I recommend it? You can choose a local bookstore to support, or profits will be divided among participating bookstores.

My latest newsletter is about a piece of legislation that will make the internet much, much worse for all of us — unless we fight now.

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/

(I wrote this before I got a positive covid test. Gonna go goof off now.)

The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse

We've all watched in horror as red states have banned books in schools and libraries. We've seen teachers fired merely for reading a book about gender...

Happy Dancing