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> Hi there! Iris here~ > It’s always been a dream of mine to meet that special someone…and file their tax return. Join me and we’ll search for deductions while searching for love! > But be careful! We’re not alone. Corporate tax filing services like TurboTax are (by dint of extensive lobbying) predatory, parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordin…
I recently looked into it and most of the studios in Japan collapsed, so its kind of a lost art. But they're being resurrected by Jast, need more creators though.
I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
OTOH, it's not like Big Serious Organizations Run By Grownups have a great track record vis-a-vis data breaches either.
MSCHF are absolutely brilliant. I've been following them for 5 years and I truly believe they're the best art collective around. This is another word class troll.
Tax Heaven 3000 is now my recommended tax solution.
I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
OTOH, it's not like Big Serious Organizations Run By Grownups have a great track record vis-a-vis data breaches either.
In general the conventional narratives on personal security are completely backwards. If some drive by attacker gets your credit card or social security number and uses them to defraud someone else, your rights are well represented by the system and you have plenty of recourse. Whereas if some commercial surveillance advanced persistent threat gets your personal data accompanied by a boolean field in their database saying that you agreed to "terms" saying they can abuse it however they want, there is literally nothing you can do to stop them in the US. Furthermore the underground lists of CC/SSN your semi-private information made it into will eventually be considered stale and forgotten about, while corporate surveillance databases are forever.
I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
OTOH, it's not like Big Serious Organizations Run By Grownups have a great track record vis-a-vis data breaches either.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s possible that this game is just filling out numbers in the PDF for you and you can fill out your personal info manually, sign it, and mail it in. If it’s trying to do E-file for you, then yeah I would be scared.
Other services efile for you, why would this be any different
It's certainly a convenience, and most serious software would try to include it, but I don't think MSCHF are going for convenience. The Yahoo headline and article uses the word "file" but the video doesn't.
> Hi there! Iris here~ > It’s always been a dream of mine to meet that special someone…and file their tax return. Join me and we’ll search for deductions while searching for love! > But be careful! We’re not alone. Corporate tax filing services like TurboTax are (by dint of extensive lobbying) predatory, parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordin…
This is a profoundly difficult to read, it hurts me, psychically