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Inside: Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions; and more!

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Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump's tax-dodging.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1405314212289646594

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#15yrsago Spammer: I’ll buy MySpace profiles with more than 20k contacts brooklynskiclub.com/2006/06/easy-m…

#15yrsago Psychology of bad probability estimation: why lottos and terrorists matter web.archive.org/web/2006062717…

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#10yrsago What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower: steampunk choose-your-own-adventure memex.craphound.com/2011/06/17/wha…

#10yrsago Work song of Ghanian postal workers cancelling stamps blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/…

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#5yrsago Hong Kong bookseller: I was forced to confess on China TV bbc.com/news/av/world-…

#5yrsago Wisconsin Congresswoman: mandatory drug tests for anyone claiming $150K in itemized tax-deductions theguardian.com/us-news/2016/j…

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#5yrsago $40,000/year private school sues school for low-income kids for $2M bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/…

#5yrsago Oakland mayor denies firing police chief over officers who statutorily raped teen sex-worker eastbayexpress.com/badge-of-disho…

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#5yrsago Not robots: youth unemployment caused by late retirement, driven by pension precarity thebaffler.com/salvos/exit-pl…

#5yrsago Your cable operator is spying on you and selling the data from your set-top box publicknowledge.org/press-release/…

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#5yrsago 12 year old makes devastating video about anti-vaxxers, gets doxxed skepchick.org/2016/06/anti-v…

#5yrsago British Pro-EU MP murdered in the street by man shouting “Britain first!” theintercept.com/2016/06/16/bri…

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#5yrsago The Orlando shooting, according to the Congressmen who took the most money from the NRA jezebel.com/heres-how-the-…

#5yrsago Supreme Court ruling is a blow to copyright trolling business-model arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#5yrsago Paramount tells judge that they’re still suing over Star Trek fan-film hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

#1yrago Hue and cry, posses, sheriffs pluralistic.net/2020/06/17/on-…

#1yrago Robots aren't stealing your job pluralistic.net/2020/06/17/on-…

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Yesterday's threads: Suing all of ad-tech; Interop Sci-Fi; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1405205075639767040

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."

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Recent appearances:

* The ACCESS Act, @ConsumerReports:
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* Raging Chicken @RCpress podcast:
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* Darts and Lasers podcast:
dartsandletters.ca/2021/06/11/ep2…

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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My latest Medium column is "Illegitimate Greatness," on what we can learn from Ida M Tarbell's century-old critique of John D Rockefeller

doctorow.medium.com/illegitimate-g…

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