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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?

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* 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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#5yrsago The @internetarchive’s Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex: eyeball-lancing collection of terrible US military slides archive.org/details/Milita… 9/ Image
#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/ Image
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Inside: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/21/the…

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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country."

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#20yrsago Bertelsmann sued over #Napster web.archive.org/web/2003040120…

#15yrsago Random House Audio abandons audiobook #DRM craphound.com/DRMLetter22108…

#15yrsago Collective intelligence spontaneously arises among #ARG players — paper from I Love Bees creator avantgame.com/McGonigal_WhyI… 3/ Image
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In *Lovecraft Country*, @bymattruff made a genius inversion: telling the racist horror tales of HP Lovecraft in reverse, from the PoV of Black people whom Lovecraft so loathed, casting as villains white supremacist sorcerers whom Lovecraft lionized:

memex.craphound.com/2016/02/16/mat… 1/ The cover of Matt Ruff's 'D...
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*Country* was adapted by @JordanPeele into a spectacular TV serial . 2/
No mean feat, given how much of Ruff's brilliant characterizations relies on the novelist's trick of giving readers direct access to characters' thoughts and internal states, something that is off-limits to screen adaptations without recourse to cheap tricks like voice-overs. 3/
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Oberheim DS-2A & a dollar // Sequencer (US, 1974) vizreef.tumblr.com/post/709851492… ImageImageImage
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Every year, Americans spend billions on #TaxPrep services, paying a heavily concentrated industry of giant, wildly profitable firms to send the #IRS information it already has. 1/ An ogrish, tophatted, cigar-chomping giant holds the US Capi
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Despite the fact that most other rich countries have a far more efficient process, many Americans believe that adopting this process here is either impossible, immoral, or both. 3/
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Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory by Thomas Moran, 1882 gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/709756122…
Former Head Office (1954) of the Company “Baronie” in Alphen aan den Rhijn, the Netherlands, by Swaneveld & Goslinga germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/709758511…
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