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

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/17/qui…

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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.



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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…


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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:

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

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups"; The doctrine of dynastic wealth; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn…

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The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups": Uber and Lyft spent their way into a rep for racial justice.



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The doctrine of dynastic wealth: Abigail Disney on tax evasion and the American caste system.



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19 Jun
The biggest news story of the moment @propublica's reporting on the #SecretIRSFiles, a trove of leaked tax data on the wealthiest people in America that show that they pay effectively no tax, through perfectly legal means.

pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/gui…

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The Bootlicker-Industrial Complex has completely missed the point of this reporting and its followup, like the revelation that an ultrarich candidate for Manhattan DA was able to pay no tax in many years where her family booked millions in revenue.

pluralistic.net/2021/06/17/qui…

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The apologists for super-rich tax-evaders lean heavily on the fact that America has a tax-code that substantially reduces the spending power (and thus political power) of people who work for a living, while enhancing the wealth of those who own things for a living.

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19 Jun
When CA's #Prop22 passed in 2020, it killed the right of gig workers to unionize and it permanently enshrined the practice of worker misclassification: pretending employees are independent contractors, not entitled to health care, overtime, pensions or basic protections.

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Uber, Lyft and other "gig" companies spent $205m to pass the ballot initiative, almost as much as was spent on EVERY legislative race in the state - it was the most expensive ballot initiative in American history.

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That money was accompanied by some powerful endorsements, including the California NAACP, which struck many observers as deeply strange, given that the most exploited workers in the gig economy are Black.

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If you're still scraping your jaw off the floor after @propublica's monster story on tax-dodging among the ultra-wealthy, then buckle up, because they're not anywhere close to reporting out that leaked data.

pluralistic.net/2021/06/08/leo…

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Today's story from #TheSecretIRSFiles is about Tali Farhadian Weinstein, the ultrawealthy frontrunner candidate for the Democratic primary for DA of Manhattan.

propublica.org/article/leadin…

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Farhadian Weinstein and her husband - hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein - earn stupendous amounts of money ($107m in 2011!) and pay virtually no tax.

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16 Jun
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Suing all of ad-tech; Interop Sci-Fi; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/16/ins…

#Pluralistic

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Suing all of ad-tech: Will an EU country finally enforce the GDPR?



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Interop Sci-Fi: Inside the Clock Tower, my interoperability sf for Consumer Reports.



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The most anti-science-fiction political leader of all time was Margaret Thatcher. Her motto - "There is no alternative" - was a demand masquerading as an observation, and what she really meant was "Stop trying to imagine an alternative."

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This idea - that our world is inevitable, not the result of human choices, and it cannot be altered through human action - is well-put in the quote attributed to Frederic Jameson "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism."

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In that light, science fiction can be a radical literature indeed. Depicting a future where our bedrock assumptions of our interpersonal, political and commercial relations are different implicitly denies that our present is inevitable or immutable.

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