#monopolies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monopolies, aggregated by home.social.
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The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-enshittification
Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler
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The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-enshittification
Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler
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The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-enshittification
Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler
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The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-enshittification
Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler
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The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-enshittification
Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler
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The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!
Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.
What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions
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The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!
Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.
What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions
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The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!
Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.
What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions
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The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!
Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.
What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions
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The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!
Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.
What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions
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"WeLib describes itself as an “endless library” founded on the principle that “education and literature belong to everyone.” The publishers, however, clearly don’t agree with the library framing, noting libraries can be trusted; pirate sites not.
“Libraries are trusted institutions that serve the communities that fund them by lending books and other publications they have lawfully acquired. Using this label for WeLib explicitly misleads the public and allows WeLib to hijack the goodwill that libraries enjoy and have legitimately earned.”
“WeLib is no more than a pirate website that reproduces and distributes works of authorship owned by others to users for a profit, without authorization from or compensation to the copyright owners,” the complaint adds.
The complaint notes that WeLib’s operators made efforts to keep their identities hidden. However, the site itself quickly became a go-to portal for many book pirates.
The complaint notes that, by WeLib’s own account, its collection includes 43 million books and 98 million articles. The site reportedly has over 80,000 active monthly users who accessed more than 51.7 million books and downloaded 14.5 million files last month."
https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/
#AnnasArchive #Copyright #IP #Piracy #Monopolies #Rentism #Feudalism
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The payoff from Thiel’s early gamble in Trump is a lesson that has not passed others by.
As with their other obsession, #crypto, the best time to have invested in Trump was 2016,
and the second best time is today.We already have a word for what we’re watching now:
it’s #oligarchy.And we’ve already seen how this plays out.
In Putin’s Russia, political and commercial interests are one and the same.
Thiel is betting
– again
– on the same phenomenon in America.Betting that he will be first among a new breed of tech bro oligarchs
– a new super-class of #broligarchs.In Trump’s America, there will be hard choices for everyone, including the billionaires. --
Though it may be less hard for them.Vance has said he wants to #deregulate crypto and
unshackle AI.He’s said he’d #dismantle Biden’s attempts to place safeguards around AI development.
And while he has it in for the #legacy #monopolies of Google and Facebook
– the platforms that his ideological bedfellows in the “new right” see as part of the “censorship industrial complex” suffocating rightwing speech
– Silicon Valley is betting on a gloves-off, regulation-free, pro-business #goldrush.Another Peter Thiel acolyte was on stage at the Republican National Convention last week,
electrifying the crowd:
#Hulk #Hogan.Hogan is less well known as one of Thiel’s longterm bets, though in some ways he’s even more instructive than Vance.
In 2007, the online magazine #Gawker outed Thiel and ran a series of unflattering articles about him.
It took him years, but he ultimately got his revenge, covertly funding Hulk Hogan to the tune of $10m to sue the publication for invasion of privacy and forcing it into #bankruptcy.
On stage at the RNC, the wrestler, a permatanned orange, ripped off his shirt for the man who increasingly looks like he’ll be America’s next president.
Or, if JD Vance, is correct, the man who will prove to be the #Caesar he says America needs.
A man who he has already urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to
💥 “replace them with our people”,
to defy the courts and rule his own way.Or, to put this in simple terms:
to foment a #coup.Thiel knows what every investor knows. That a crisis is an opportunity.
And that if Trump succeeds in tearing up the federal administration,
there is not only billions to be made in the ensuing market #turmoil but that a new breed of oligarchs,
close to Caesar’s throne, will be the first to share the spoils.And chief among them will be Thiel.
It’s not a stretch to see how #Palantir, his data-mining company
– that under the Conservatives got its teeth into the NHS
– will profile and surveil and target Caesar’s enemies.And Thiel’s track record in winning, in successfully betting on the longest of odds, on biding his time, is maybe the most chilling of all the factors in a fortnight that has started to feel like the start of a run on the bank.
Biden’s debate disaster,
Trump’s victorious assassination survival,
and now Silicon Valley’s ascension to the presidential ticket.The broligarchs have made their move
– and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.#tech #elite #Sandberg #Page #Bezos #Peter #Thiel #tech #bro #Vance #Elon #Musk #Marc #Andreessen #Ben #Horowitz #Winklevoss #Chamath #Palihapitiya #David #Sacks #Palantir #Vance #Mithril #Capital #Narya #Capital
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@MylesRyden @stevendbrewer @pluralistic The specific “corporation” at the root of the 1970s shift in US #HigherEd was #SallieMae, whose #StudentLoans servicing was spun off into #Navient in 2014.
People often associate #corporations with private #capitalist enterprises, but the federal #government owns dozens, chartered under the theory that incorporating enables more political independence. In practice, they’re all state-sponsored coercive #monopolies.
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Lots of #BannedBooks and #OutOfPrintBooks on the #InternetArchive. This isn't about #copyright -- this is about #censorship! There are only FIVE major publishers in the US -- and they keep trying to merge to create even bigger #monopolies! Often, big publishing companies buy out #IndependentPublishers and #SmallPublishers, so they can stop printing their books!
#Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #Libraries #DigitalLibraries #ProgressivePublishers #IA
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Lots of #BannedBooks and #OutOfPrintBooks on the #InternetArchive. This isn't about #copyright -- this is about #censorship! There are only FIVE major publishers in the US -- and they keep trying to merge to create even bigger #monopolies! Often, big publishing companies buy out #IndependentPublishers and #SmallPublishers, so they can stop printing their books!
#Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #Libraries #DigitalLibraries #ProgressivePublishers #IA
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Lots of #BannedBooks and #OutOfPrintBooks on the #InternetArchive. This isn't about #copyright -- this is about #censorship! There are only FIVE major publishers in the US -- and they keep trying to merge to create even bigger #monopolies! Often, big publishing companies buy out #IndependentPublishers and #SmallPublishers, so they can stop printing their books!
#Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #Libraries #DigitalLibraries #ProgressivePublishers #IA
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Lots of #BannedBooks and #OutOfPrintBooks on the #InternetArchive. This isn't about #copyright -- this is about #censorship! There are only FIVE major publishers in the US -- and they keep trying to merge to create even bigger #monopolies! Often, big publishing companies buy out #IndependentPublishers and #SmallPublishers, so they can stop printing their books!
#Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #Libraries #DigitalLibraries #ProgressivePublishers #IA
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Lots of #BannedBooks and #OutOfPrintBooks on the #InternetArchive. This isn't about #copyright -- this is about #censorship! There are only FIVE major publishers in the US -- and they keep trying to merge to create even bigger #monopolies! Often, big publishing companies buy out #IndependentPublishers and #SmallPublishers, so they can stop printing their books!
#Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #Libraries #DigitalLibraries #ProgressivePublishers #IA
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As college football attendance slumps, new ways to ticket may hold an answer - Jesse Lawrence
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Jesse Lawrence has been in media and te... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Ec9cwOiWPNA/ #thewallstreetjournal #universityofgeorgia #dollarshaveclub #ticketmaster #taylorswift #warbyparker #monopolies #facebook #football #alabama #georgia #tickets #writing #column #artist #google #food #ncaa