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Inside: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!

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Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1627740579927887886

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Hey look at this

* A Mathematical Theory of Communication web.archive.org/web/1998071501…

* How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends imgur.com/topic/The_More… (h/t @kottke)

* Crowdsourced land-clearing monitoring acfinvestigates.org.au (h/t Michael Pulsford) 3/

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#15yrsago #Toronto’s #QueenStreetWest burns torontoist.com/2008/02/massiv…

#15yrsago #EmailApnea: holding your breath while you answer mail radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/… 4/

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#15yrsago Great #FinancialAdvice for writers whatever.scalzi.com/2008/02/11/una… 5/

#10yrsago Anti-capitalist London graffiti mysteriously removed, offered for sale in Miami for $500,000 wired.com/2013/02/banksy…

#10yrsago What it feels like to submit a manuscript dreamcafe.com/2013/02/19/an-… 6/

#10yrsago I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave: when we design computers to boss us around publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/co…

#10yrsago Vehicular tetris plan foiled by German policeman with tragic lack of imagination bild.de/regional/duess… 7/

#5yrsago Since 1998, using your own property has required regulatory permission and the ability to make your own jailbreaking tools from scratch eff.org/deeplinks/2018… 8/

#5yrsago The @internetarchive’s Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex: eyeball-lancing collection of terrible US military slides archive.org/details/Milita… 9/

#5yrsago California ballot initiative to make state university free again by reinstating inheritance tax for millionaires web.archive.org/web/2018022020…

#5yrsago Students substitute #GunControl protest for active shooter drill wdea.am/mdihs-postpone… 10/

#5yrsago #Corbyn says he’ll end asset-stripping #HostileTakeovers theguardian.com/politics/2018/… 11/

Yesterday's threads: Pluralistic is three; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1627463879440703488

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