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#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. "However, inflation control as we do it today is inefficient. Moreover, it is inhumane. In many countries, authorities target a rate of unemployment that they think will not cause inflation (NAIRU). In Kelton’s vivid words, this policy 'uses people as human shields against inflation'."

    edgeryders.eu/t/on-modern-mone

    #modernMonetaryTheory
    #economics
    #5yrsAgo

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    #5yrsago In Kansas’s poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor’s prison features.propublica.org/medica

    #5yrsago Want a ride in a Lyft? Just sign away your right to sue if they kill, maim, rape or cheat you memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16

    #5yrsago #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago’s teachers are back on strike thenation.com/article/archive/

    #1yrago One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/tex

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    #5yrsago How F Scott Fitzgerald conjugated the verb “To cocktail” openculture.com/2015/06/f-scot

    #5yrsago When Trump’s #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people propublica.org/article/trump-t

    #5yrsago Tennessee police to drug users: don’t flush your dope or you’ll create “meth gators” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tenne

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    #5yrsago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13

    #5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition theverge.com/2019/3/13/1826395

    #5yrsago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the “meritocratic” one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids’ way into top universities in the college admissions scandal mcmansionhell.com/post/1834170

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    #10yrsago Guardian Cities: how Hackney council let developers demolish the startups of “Silicon Roundabout” theguardian.com/cities/2014/ma

    #10yrsago Snowden at SXSW: immediate impressions theguardian.com/technology/201

    #5yrsago Why #Article13 inevitably requires filters communia-association.org/2019/

    #5yrsago Leaked Chinese database of 1.8 million women includes a field indicating whether they are “BreedReady” twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1104

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    #5yrsago History is made: petition opposing the EU’s #Article13 internet censorship plan draws more signatures than any petition in human history change.org/p/european-parliame

    #5yrsago The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism memex.craphound.com/2019/03/05

    #5yrsago BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel twitter.com/dietinghippo/statu

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    #5yrsago #Juul’s strategy for success: target children, steadily ramp up nicotine levels tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content

    #5yrsago Swedes are entitled to six months’ leave to start a business, look after a sick relative, or study bbc.com/worklife/article/20190

    #5yrsago Leak reveals that hundreds of bounty hunters have had access to super-fine-grained mobile location data for years vice.com/en/article/43z3dn/hun

    #1yrago The Collective Intelligence Institute pluralistic.net/2023/02/07/ful

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    #5yrsago One of pharma’s most notorious gougers is going bankrupt, but 2019 is a banner year for #shkreli-grade pharma price-hikes arstechnica.com/science/2019/0

    #5yrsago Chasing down the list of potential #Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with “#PredictivePolicingvice.com/en/article/d3m7jq/doz

    #5yrsago Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a #MindControl ray memex.craphound.com/2019/02/06

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    #5yrsago Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more arstechnica.com/information-te

    #5yrsago The #FBI invented a fictitious “#AbortionExtremist” movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it jezebel.com/exclusive-fbi-warn

    #5yrsago As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection ifla.org/news/ifla-joins-the-c

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    #5yrsago German Minister of Justice to receive the largest EU petition in history, opposing #Article13 of the Copyright Directive youtube.com/watch?v=jwj-hDvJWM

    #1yrago How Facebook's #RealNames policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nat

    #1yrago The public paid for "#Moderna's" #vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again) pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nat

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    #5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper web.archive.org/web/2019012322

    #5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-un

    #5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/ri

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    #5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/even

    #5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.” youtube.com/watch?v=-No5ClLS1W

    #5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/201

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    #5yrsago Regardless of political affiliation, over-65s are most likely to share “fake news” (and there’s not much fake news, and it’s largely right-wing) theverge.com/2019/1/9/18174631

    #5yrsago #ElChapo went down because his sysadmin sold him out gizmodo.com/the-feds-cracked-e

    #1yrago The learned helplessness of #PeteButtigieg pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the

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    #5yrsago Whistleblower: #AmazonRing stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad “unfettered” access to them theintercept.com/2019/01/10/am

    #5yrsago #PatentTrolls celebrate as Trump’s new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    #5yrsago Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers’ promises to respect our privacy? vice.com/en/article/nepx5x/we-

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    #5yrsago The audiophile #MQA format really doesn’t have #DRM, but that doesn’t mean it’s not on the toxic rainbow of locked tech eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/clos

    #5yrsago The latest Facebook scandal might explain why Amazon wrongfully banned book-reviewers gizmodo.com/amazon-and-faceboo

    #5yrsago Inside the funny accounting that lets the money-losing #fracking industry claim to be profitable desmog.com/2018/12/18/fracking

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    #5yrsago False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of #CopyrightFilters in an Article 13 Europe greeneuropeanjournal.eu/false-

    #5yrsago Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian “white hat” hacker talking to him through his #SmartDoorbell memex.craphound.com/2018/12/17

    #5yrsago Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl

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