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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter 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…

#Pluralistic

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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…
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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.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1658883737382453248

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Hey look at this

* #AntiPiracy Outfit Wipes ACE’s ‘#WatchLegally’ Page From Google torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-ou… (h/t @slashdot)

* dome sweet dome mcmansionhell.com/post/717478586…

* #NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE edge.org/conversation/c… (h/t @TodayinTabs)

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#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/bru…

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#10yrsago #Gawker reporter claims to have seen video of Toronto Mayor #RobFord #SmokingCrack gawker.com/for-sale-a-vid…

#10yrsago Company that oversees US “six-strikes” copyright shakedown has its company status revoked torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-an…

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#5yrsago Star of racist deli rant identified as Trump-donating NYC lawyer #AaronSchlossberg gothamist.com/news/enraged-w…

#5yrsago Rising levels of a banned chemical are threatening the #OzoneLayer (again) washingtonpost.com/news/energy-en…

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#5yrsago #StudentDebt crisis watch: pay $18,000 of your $24,000 loan, owe $24k bustle.com/p/ive-paid-180…

#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/californ…

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#5yrsago It’s laughably simple to buy thousands of cheap, plausible Facebook identities buzzfeednews.com/article/charli…

#5yrsago A collaborative bibliography of “#EconomicScienceFiction” edgeryders.eu/t/economic-sci…

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#5yrsago The £7 billion #Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms independent.co.uk/news/business/…

#5yrsago America’s new aristocracy: the 9.9% and their delusion of #HereditaryMeritocracy theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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#5yrsago New York surpasses Brexit London as the world’s second-hottest luxury property market mansionglobal.com/articles/hong-…

#1yrago How #BigPharma bribed docs to overprescribe #opioids pluralistic.net/2022/05/17/dol…

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Yesterday's threads: Rent control works; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1658548746450534400

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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700…

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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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Upcoming appearances:

* @GburgBookFest, (#Gaithersburg) 5/20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

* @publicknowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), 5/22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

* #WEPFest with @RonDeibert, @hockeyesque and @DrNancyOlivieri (#Toronto), 5/23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…

* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-even…

* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, 6/8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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Recent appearances:

* Shakedowns, Shell Games & Silicon Valley Shenanigans @MMTpodcast
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/170-cory-docto…

* Chokepoint Capitalism's Arts Stranglehold @USNewsBeat
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…

* Enshittification 2: How Big Tech curdled @onthemedia
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

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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"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp…

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered).

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