#1yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#5yrsago Court rejects TSA qualified immunity https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#junk-touching

#5yrsago The Mauritanian https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#gwb-and-gitmo

#5yrsago EVs as distributed storage grid https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#mobile-batteries

#5yrsago Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

#1yrsago How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/24/surfa/#mark-ellis

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#1yrsago Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#governing-is-harder

#1yrago The Brave Little Toaster https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/08/sirius-cybernetics-corporation/#chatterbox

#1yrago The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/#rugged-individualism-for-the-poor

#1yrago They were warned https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/#is-not-enough

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#5yrsago Uber for evicting people https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/uncivvl/#solidarity-vs-barbarisms

#1yrsago Thinking the unthinkable https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction

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#5yrsago Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-labs-document-reveals-companys-early-plans-for-data/

#1yrago The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

#1yrsago Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/01/intergenerational-warfare/#five-pound-blocks-of-cheese

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#5yrsago @sarahpinsker’s “Song for a New Day”: outstanding dystopian rock-and-roll novel of rebellion and redemption https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/23/sarah-pinskers-song-for-a-new-day-outstanding-dystopian-rock-and-roll-novel-of-rebellion-and-redemption/

#5yrsago The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/22/the-lost-audiobooks-of-roger-zelazny-reading-the-chronicles-of-amber/

#1yrsago Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

#1yrago Down in the (link)dumps https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/23/salmagundi/#dewey-102

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#1yrsago Rent control works https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset

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#5yrsago Supreme Court greenlights Apple customers’ lawsuit over App Store price-fixing https://www.wired.com/story/supreme-court-apple-decision-antitrust/

#5yrsago Amazon’s monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat https://www.promarket.org/2019/02/15/is-amazon-violating-the-sherman-act/

#5yrsago Trump supporters astonished to learn that the man they gave $20m to “build the wall” has nothing to show for it https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/11/group-raised-more-than-million-build-wall-now-some-supporters-want-answers/

#1yrsago Revenge of the Linkdumps https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/four-bar-linkage/#linkspittle

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#1yrsago Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

#1yrago Convicted monopolist prevented from re-offending https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/27/convicted-monopolist/#microsquish

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#5yrsago EU to create 350m person biometric database for borders, migration and law enforcement https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-votes-to-create-gigantic-biometrics-database/

#1yrsago A Collective Bargain https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/

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#5yrsago Copyright filters are automatically removing copies of the Mueller Report https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/20/copyright-filters-are-automatically-removing-copies-of-the-mueller-report/

#5yrsago Noam Chomsky takes ten minutes to explain everything you need to know about the Republican Party in 2019 https://truthout.org/video/chomsky-on-the-perils-of-depending-on-mueller-report-to-defeat-trump/

#1yrsago Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter

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#5yrsago The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts “illegal” or “harmful” material https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/09/the-chinafication-of-the-internet-continues-as-the-uk-proposes-blocking-any-service-that-hosts-illegal-or-harmful-material/

#5yrsago How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/09/how-to-do-nothing-jenny-odells-case-for-resisting-the-attention-economy/

#1yrsago How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/09/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok/

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#5yrsago One company bought all the retailers for glasses, used that to force sales of all eyewear companies and jacked up prices 1000% https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-glasses-lenscrafters-luxottica-monopoly-20190305-story.html

#1yrsago Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/they-put-it-in-writing/#that-was-then

#1yrago The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/teneo/#i-grasp

#1yrago Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/price-over-volume/#pepsi-pricing-power

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#5yrsago Insider sources say Apple is shutting its east Texas stores to escape the jurisdiction of America’s worst patent court https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/apple-closing-stores-in-eastern-district-texas/

#1yrsago Fighting the privacy wars, state by state https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/state-of-play/#patchwork

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#5yrsago Adam Ruins #BigTech: how monopolies, DRM, EULAs, and predatory tactics have delivered our dystopian future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mid1VvK9Xpg

#5yrsago #TheresaMay faces a no confidence vote today https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/12/brexit-tories-launch-no-confidence-vote-against-may.html

#1yrsago Orphaned neurological implants https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism

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#5yrsago Obama’s policy on Bush’s crimes is how #BrettKavanaugh got to the Supreme Court https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-bush-administration/

#1yrsago Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#billionaire-dilletantes

#1yrsago #MedievalTimes invents a modern #UnionBusting tactic https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#ip

#1yrago How lawyers became sadists https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/15/lex-sadist/#incentives-matter

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#5yrsago #AmericanConservative laments #MarketConcentration and #PrivateProperty as bad for #FreeExpression https://www.theamericanconservative.com/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/

#5yrsago #Missouri voters kill the state’s anti-union law with a massively successful ballot initiative https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-missouri-unions-ballot-primary-janus.html

#1yrsago A modest proposal to fix #contracts https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/10/be-reasonable/#i-would-prefer-not-to

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#10yrsago New Brazilian environmental political party based on social networking https://globalvoices.org/2013/03/09/former-brazilian-ministers-new-political-party-mixes-sustainability-social-media/

#5yrsago RIP #KateWilhelm, science fiction great and co-founder of the Clarion Workshop https://www.facebook.com/richard.wilhelm.50/posts/10215208419699356

#5yrsago Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right’s “capitalist ideal” https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/09/how-capitalist-is-singapore-really/

#1yrsago The SEC must not legitimize fake "#CarbonOffsets" https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/11/a-market-for-flaming-lemons/#money-for-nothing

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