https://drudge.com/user/south_american New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 https://drudge.com/news/292075/ai-imagine-tech-without-tech https://archive.ph/rEA2o It seemed unlikely the IRS was working on a supercool, supersecret AI project, because the IRS runs on ancient tech and has never once flirted with being cool. As for secrecy, I had entered its headquarters to meet then-Commissioner Danny Werfel within two weeks of requesting an interview. But after a few minutes in Werfel's waiting room, I began to wonder. Dull-blue carpet. Walls the color of cafeteria pudding. The room's center of antigravity"its un"focal point"was a faux-mahogany cabinet displaying unloved plaques and seasonal gourds. I had never been in a place so perfectly optimized to kill all curiosity. If a diabolical genius were hiding an incredible AI project, this is the anteroom he'd build. After cataloging the reasons that it's nearly impossible for the IRS to use AI, Werfel quietly began to list some of the ways in which the IRS was already using AI. Natural-language processing was speeding taxpayers through call centers and getting them to the right human representative. Large language models, including GPT-4 and Meta's Llama, were being tested to assist with code generation. Bespoke AI was helping employees spot complex tax-evasion schemes. Most impressive of all, AI was assisting in the translation of the IRS Individual Master File (IMF)"the massive Kennedy-era database that contains not just the tax records of every American, but every change ever made to those tax records"into modern software languages. The IMF is the white whale of obsolete government technology; the team that drags it into the present should be given its own national park. Thu, 14 May 2026 22:50:20 -0400 South_American https://drudge.com/news/292075/ai-imagine-tech-without-tech#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.292075 discussion, 0.5 daily 292075 https://drudge.com/news/290842/fk-kash-patel-and-his-tupid-shoes https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/kash-patel-22085724.php?sid=67d2ff6ebf2bb676d0096461&stn=nf I'm so tired of this s"t. I'm tired of having to learn about any of these awful people. I'm tired of them starting wars, shooting innocent people, and frittering away billions of tax dollars that you and I pay to have a functional government. I'm tired of them wearing ugly shoes, paying each other empty compliments, and pretending like they're anything but mediocrities. And I'm REALLY tired of them ruining things that you and I might otherwise enjoy. That includes the Olympics, but it also includes things like medicine, education, transportation, surfing around on the internet, and not dying in a nuclear holocaust. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:40:59 -0400 South_American https://drudge.com/news/290842/fk-kash-patel-and-his-tupid-shoes#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290842 discussion, 0.5 daily 290842 https://drudge.com/news/290472/john-p-hammond-gone https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/arts/music/john-p-hammond-dead.html John P. Hammond, Pioneer in 1960s Blues Renaissance, Dies at 83 "I have no complaints." Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:15:17 -0500 South_American https://drudge.com/news/290472/john-p-hammond-gone#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290472 discussion, 0.5 daily 290472