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The #GOP, a coalition between Big Business farmers and turkeys who'll vote for Christmas (Red Scare cowards, apocalyptic white nationalists, religious fanatics) has fallen to its bizarre, violent radical wing, obsessed with policies that are irrelevant to most Americans.
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As @owillis writes, the views of the radical right - which are also the policies of the GOP - are wildly out of step with the US political view:
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Capitalists hate capitalism; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/com…
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Inside: Capitalists hate capitalism; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/com…
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Capitalists hate capitalism: Merck's version of "market pricing" is "whatever we ask for."
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Hey look at this
* Some #blogging myths jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/0… (h/t @kottke)
* #OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Lawsuit gizmodo.com/chatgpt-openai…
* Eli Lilly Unveils Insulin That Doesn’t Work On Poor People theonion.com/eli-lilly-unve…
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* Some #blogging myths jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/0… (h/t @kottke)
* #OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Lawsuit gizmodo.com/chatgpt-openai…
* Eli Lilly Unveils Insulin That Doesn’t Work On Poor People theonion.com/eli-lilly-unve…
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Welcome to my Saturday #linkdump, the third in an occasional series that may or may not be restricted to Saturdays, but which will ever be an ode to olde-timey #linkblogging of the sort practiced by our blogfathers, blogmothers, and other blogparents:
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Any fule kno that Saturday is #Caturday, and today's woke felinism comes from @GoingMedieval, earthiest of all the Medivelist Bloggers, author of the superb *Once and Future Sex*, all about dirty dirty medieval people and their filthy filthy habits:
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
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Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:
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5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:
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5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:
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5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:
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5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:
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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/dea…
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Inside: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/dea…
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Tonight (Apr 26), I'll be in #Burbank at @DarkDel at 6PM with my new book, *Red Team Blues*:
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From Apr 26-28, @BNBuzz is offering a 25% discount on preorders for my upcoming novels (use discount code PREORDER25):
The Lost Cause (Nov 2023)
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The Bezzle (Red Team Blues #2) (Feb 2024)
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The Lost Cause (Nov 2023)
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The Bezzle (Red Team Blues #2) (Feb 2024)
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Is antitrust anti-labor? and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aim…
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Inside: Is antitrust anti-labor? and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aim…
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There's 3 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!
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Is antitrust anti-labor? tl;dr: no.
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The @EU_Commission has presented its proposal for a Right to Repair (#RightToRepair) (👉 commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/…). Good to finally have a proposal, but it's underambitious for achieving its goal. Let's have a closer look: a🧵
1a/ Core to the proposal is the obligation to repair in Article 5. Good: irrespective of the location of the producer, a good must be repaired by somebody if requested by the consumer. Bad: Possibility to refuse the request by reference to the blurry concept of 'impossibility'.
1b/ Obligation to repair is limited to products mentioned in Annex II, which can be extended by the European Commission by means of a delegated act (hello, my old friend!). Proper dynamisation of the scope of the obligation to repair is crucial.
The masked car-thieves who stole a #Volkswagen SUV in #LakeCounty, IL didn't know that there was a two-year-old child in the back seat - but that's no excuse. A violent car-theft has the potential to hurt or kill people, after all. 1/
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Same with the VW execs who decided to nonconsensually track the location of every driver and sell that data to shady brokers - but to deny car owners access to that data unless they paid for a "find my car" subscription. 3/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car…
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Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car…
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Next Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
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On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
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On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
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Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills.
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A 2021 #IOS update from #Apple let users opt out of tracking with one click. More than 96% clicked, costing #Facebook $10b in *one year*. The kicker? Even if you opted out, *Apple* *spied* on you, just like Facebook had, to fuel its own targeted ads:
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The fact that Apple - a company that has blanketed the world with anti-surveillance billboards - engaged in deceptive, pervasive surveillance reveals the bankruptcy of "letting the market decide" what privacy protections you should have. 3/
The DoJ's antitrust lawsuit against #Google triggered an avalanche of pearl-clutching editorials from establishment lawyers and economists who argue that such a move is both counterproductive and legally incoherent. 1/
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These Very Bad Takes are only to be expected, since they emanate from ideologues who volunteered to serve as Renfields for vampiric monopolists. 3/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The real scandal is overclassification; The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/30/i-c…
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Inside: The real scandal is overclassification; The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/30/i-c…
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The real scandal is overclassification: I'd explain it, but I'd have to kill you.
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The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra (twice!).
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Last week, a seeming miracle came to pass: @JohnDeere, the #BigAg #monopolist that - along with @Apple - has led the Axis of Evil that killed, delayed and sabotaged dozens of #RightToRepair laws, sued for peace. 1/
They announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation to make it easier for farmers to fix their own tractors:
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This is a move that's both badly needed and long overdue. 2/
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This is a move that's both badly needed and long overdue. 2/
Deere abuses copyright law to force farmers to pay for official repairs - even when the farmer does the repair. That's possible thanks to a practice called #VINLocking, in which engine parts come with #DRM that prevents the tractor from recognizing. 3/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: What the fediverse (does/n't) solve; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/sem…
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Inside: What the fediverse (does/n't) solve; and more!
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/22/mus…
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Inside: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/22/mus…
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill: Crashing airplanes and starving old people.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/mal…
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Inside: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/mal…
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: ...and what we should do about it.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: 2023's public domain is a banger; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/fre…
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Inside: 2023's public domain is a banger; and more!
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
2023's public domain is a banger: Hemingway! Holmes! Woolf! Pooh! Christie! Metropolis! Gershwin!
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Better failure for social media; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/bet…
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Inside: Better failure for social media; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/bet…
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
Better failure for social media: The right of exit, freedom of reach, and technological self-determination.
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The #startup world's dirty not-so-secret: most startups fail. Startups are risky and so investors place bets on lots of startups and fold the ones that don't show promise, which sucks for the company employees, but also for the users who depend on the company's products. 1/
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You know what this is like: you sink a bunch of time into familiarizing yourself with a new product, you spend money on accessories for it, you lock your data into it, you integrate it into your life, and then, one morning - poof! All gone. 3/
Two visions competed at the dawn of the modern digital era: computers could be a way to empower people to push back against corporate and state control; or computers could transfer power from the public to corporations or governments. 1/
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I've always been baffled by the technologists who pursued control over liberation: surely their own formative experiences were of the liberatory power of technology. 3/
1) #Russia is not a good country, BUT they are standing against the #WEF. #Ukraine embraces the globalist agenda, which is why America built them up to take on Russia.
2) What we are seeing is the monopolizing of ideas. #Ukraine was a fairly blank slate that we could prop up as a puppet against #Russia. We installed a carefully selected government there just like in Afghanistan, and their leader was our hand-maiden.
3) Ask yourself, why did the noble President of #Afghanistan flee the country leaving his people behind? Because, he was nothing without the #United States. He could not lead them without the help of our influence. He was weak, just like #America wanted him to be.
Sometime in 2001, I walked into a Radio Shack on San Francisco's Market Street and asked for a Cuecat: a handheld barcode scanner that looked a bit like a cat and a bit like a sex toy. The clerk handed one over to me and I left, feeling a little giddy. I didn't pay a cent. 1/
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The Cuecat was a good idea and a terrible idea. The good idea was to widely distribute barcode scanners to computer owners, along with software that could read and decode barcodes. 3/
You know the joke.
Office manager: "$75 just to kick the photocopier?"
Photocopier technician: "No, it's $5 to kick the photocopier and $70 to know where to kick it." 1/
Office manager: "$75 just to kick the photocopier?"
Photocopier technician: "No, it's $5 to kick the photocopier and $70 to know where to kick it." 1/
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The trustbusters in the Biden administration know *precisely* where to kick the photocopier, and they're kicking the shit out of it. You *love* to see it. 3/
1/ „We are working“ Physik-Nobelpreisträger Steve Chu, Energieminister unter Obama und Prof. in Stanford und Berkeley spricht in der @HumboldtUni über die #Klimakrise.
2/ Der Vortrag hatte vier Teile: Klimakrise, Energieversorgung, Ernährung und Thermodynamik.
3/ Jetzt größtenteils aus Gedächtnis, konnte nur wenig aufschreiben: Man muss Energie nur kurzfristig speichern, um mit Erneuerbaren gut arbeiten zu können. 3 Tage? Pumpspeicherwerke.
