The Miami-Dade County Tax Collector's Office announced that it uncovered a network of scalpers who hoarded free DMV appointments and resold them

Scalpers amassed appointments using bots and fake accounts to exploit an online system. The Tax Collector’s Office spotted 200 suspicious appointments in the first three weeks after opening a new downtown Miami location for driver’s license services, the Miami Herald reports. The agency has its sights set on individuals who are part of local driving schools as suspects in strangling the DMV’s system. Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez said in a release:

  • mindbleach
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    6 days ago

    The fact that people raised on neoclassical econ can’t tell the difference between “addressing a distributional problem” and “making it worse but also letting rich people buy their way out of it” is basically the core problem with the world today.

    – Cory Doctorow, presumably coining the term “brain worms”