Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer); and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/fre…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer); and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/fre…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This Saturday (May 20), I'll be at the #Gaithersburg Book Festival with my novel *Red Team Blues*:
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…
On May 22, I'm keynoting #PublicKnowledge's Emerging Tech conference in #DC:
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…
On May 23, I'll be in #Toronto for a book launch that's part of #WEPFest, a benefit for the *#WestEndPhoenix*, onstage with #DaveBidini (The #Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (#CitizenLab) and the #whistleblower Dr #NancyOlivieri:
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…
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Emerging Tech
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer): After years of expensively purchased delay, Turbotax and its fellow tax-profiteers are losing the fight to make you pay them to tell the government what it already knows.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11038509…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-17 17:01:11
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Hey look at this
* #AntiPiracy Outfit Wipes ACE’s ‘#WatchLegally’ Page From Google torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-o… (h/t Slashdot)
* dome sweet dome mcmansionhell.com/post/7174785…
* #NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE edge.org/conversation/clay_shi… (h/t Today in Tabs)
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dome sweet dome
mcmansionhell (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#15yrsago Ballad of a #TCPResetPacket arstechnica.com/staff/2008/05/…
#15yrsago @bruces’s visionary novel Distraction: still brilliant a decade later memex.craphound.com/2008/05/17…
#10yrsago #Gawker reporter claims to have seen video of Toronto Mayor #RobFord #SmokingCrack gawker.com/for-sale-a-video-of…
#10yrsago Company that oversees US “six-strikes” copyright shakedown has its company status revoked torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-a…
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“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Outfit Loses Company Status, Faces Penalties
Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago Star of racist deli rant identified as Trump-donating NYC lawyer #AaronSchlossberg gothamist.com/news/enraged-whi…
#5yrsago Rising levels of a banned chemical are threatening the #OzoneLayer (again) washingtonpost.com/news/energy…
#5yrsago #StudentDebt crisis watch: pay $18,000 of your $24,000 loan, owe $24,000 bustle.com/p/ive-paid-18000-to…
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I've Paid $18,000 To A $24,000 Student Loan, & I Still Owe $24,000
Kaitlyn Cawley (Bustle)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago For decades, it was an open secret that patients of #USC’s only full-time gynecologist were complaining about sexual assaults during exams latimes.com/local/california/l…
#5yrsago It’s laughably simple to buy thousands of cheap, plausible Facebook identities buzzfeednews.com/article/charl…
#5yrsago A collaborative bibliography of “#EconomicScienceFiction” edgeryders.eu/t/economic-scien…
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Shady Marketplaces Selling Fake Facebook Profiles Operate In Plain Sight
Charlie Warzel (BuzzFeed)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago The £7 billion #Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms independent.co.uk/news/busines…
#5yrsago America’s new aristocracy: the 9.9% and their delusion of #HereditaryMeritocracy theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
#5yrsago New York surpasses Brexit London as the world’s second-hottest luxury property market mansionglobal.com/articles/hon…
#5yrsago How #BigPharma bribed docs to overprescribe #opioids pluralistic.net/2022/05/17/dol…
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Hong Kong, New York and London Top World Luxury Markets
Beckie Strum (Mansion Global)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Yesterday's threads: Rent control works; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11037985…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-16 18:48:12
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C…
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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978080700706…
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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB
Dark DelicaciesCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances:
* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…
* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…
* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…
* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…
* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
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Emerging Tech
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues event with Christian Riley (#Nottingham), May 30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…
* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…
* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirst…
* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-…
* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-c…
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Peter Kirstein Lecture 2023 featuring Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-ke…
* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…
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#rp23 Keynote von Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin: Kreative Arbeitsmärkte und Monopole. | re:publica
republicaCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Recent appearances:
* Shakedowns, Shell Games & Other Silicon Valley Shenanigans (MMT Podcast)
<a href="pileusmmt.libsyn.com/170-cory-…">pileusmmt.libsyn.com/170-cory-…</a>
* Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts (News Beat)
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…
* Enshittification Part 2: The Mechanisms That Helped Big Digital Go Bad (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…
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Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts
Morey Creative Studios (RadioPublic)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
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My latest Medium column is "Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard"
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Google’s AI Hype Circle - Cory Doctorow - Medium
Cory Doctorow (Medium)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🔝". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to clx • • •David Mitchell
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“Take the Child Tax Credit. This is the most successful social program in living memory, a single initiative that did more to lift American children out of poverty than any other since the days of the Great Society. It turns out that giving poor people money makes them less poor, which is weird, because neoliberal economists have spent decades assuring us that this is not the case” Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I remain apoplectic about the fact that the Intuit settlement for 4.4 million Americans -- undoubtedly just the ones informed about the lawsuit -- was a mere $141m, a grand total of $32 apiece. Before, you know, processing fees.
For a company like Intuit, that's not merely chump change, that's a single drop of red ink in a ledger of damnation. But ever is it so for corporations like them: such settlements are simply The Cost of Doing Business.
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Krupo
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •nail on the damn head once again
"One final note, addressing the people who are worried that the IRS will cheat innocent taxpayers by not giving them all the benefits they're entitled to. Allow me here to simply tap the sign that says "between 13 and 22 percent of EITC (poverty reduction) benefits are gulped down by tax prep companies.""
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Jeff Craig
in reply to Krupo • • •@krupo The IRS has, on at least two occasions in my life, written me a letter and a check to correct my return and pay me more than I thought I was due in a refund.
The idea that the IRS can't do *at least* as good a job free filing as Intuit is farcical.
Michael Helm
in reply to Jeff Craig • • •JamesK
in reply to Michael Helm • • •Travis Southard
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Just opened my $29.30 settlement check from Intuit. They definitely owe me (and everyone else) more for sure.
I used their software for a couple years knowing I was getting ripped off but assuming better tax help was more expensive. When I was working minimum wage I also didn’t have the time or energy to research better options.
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