#monopolistic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monopolistic, aggregated by home.social.
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“Empire of AI”: Author Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & Hidden Costs of Artificial Intelligence
#DemocracyNow!
#Illiberal #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Authoritarian #BrOligarcy
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🇨🇵 Ce n'est pas une, mais ce sont deux nouvelles possibilités de prendre connaissance de ce que représente l' "enshitification" / merdification de l'internet, qui sont rendus disponibles ces jours-ci.
- Émission Les Décrypteurs, sur Radio-Canada : Pourquoi l’internet est brisé, et comment le réparer? Avec Cory Doctorow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6SnSFsP-Nk- Conférence par Cory Doctorow au 39c3 : A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet. - https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Fait notable : on ressort de l'écoute avec un peu d'espoir quand même.
NB : les deux médias sont en anglais, mais bénéficient de sous-titre ou traduction simultanée en français.
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🇬🇧 Not one, but two new opportunities to learn about the “enshitification” of the internet are available these days.
- Les Décrypteurs program on Radio-Canada: Why is the internet broken, and how can we fix it? With Cory Doctorow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6SnSFsP-Nk- Lecture by Cory Doctorow at the 39c3 Congress : A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet. - https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Noteworthy: you come away from listening to it feeling a little hopeful after all.
@pluralistic #enshitication #merdification #monopolistic #internet #hope
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We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.
Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
#US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
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The game, originally invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 as the Landlord's Game, was designed to demonstrate the negative consequences of #monopolistic practices and the unequal distribution of #wealth. Magie's intention was to show how a system that allows a few players to accumulate vast wealth while others are left with nothing can lead to social and economic #inequality.
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#UK #Standards #money #Phone #BT #Broadband I never cease to be amazed at the poor service from #monopolistic #Telephone #Broadband supplier. Months without a proper service so I change my server. And lo, riding over the horizon comes the bean counter, "ere, you can't do that, you owe us x zillion squid for our appalling service". Well chaps, you can sing for it. Breach of contract is 'tort' & I'll happily keep your penny pinchers busy for years. & a free plug for Zen services 🇩🇪 of course!
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(4/n)
...the 19th and 20th century popularized the saying, Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant, many residents will learn the meaning of this latin phrase of the late #Roman period./s
PS:
Historically, #Mercantilism 2) has never worked as officially intended, except for the smugglers and war-mongers:"#Mercantilism 2) led to the creation of #monopolistic trading companies, such as the...
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Reactionary, Racist, anti-Democratic, faux-Centrists and Far-Right Social Regressives are intellectually, emotionally, and socially dishonest.
No, the ‘Woke Agenda’ Isn’t Ruining Society ― Here’s Why
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
#Culture #Politics #LGBTQ #Trans #Illiberal #Monopolistic #brOligarchy
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#Illiberarl #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Totalitarian #Techfeudalist #Corporatocracy
Elon Musk’s Terrifying Plan For America's Future
#Politics #Economics #PayPalMafia #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport
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Obviously, not soon or fast enough…
The Oligarchy's Power is Waking America Up
Robert Reich
@rbreich
#Illiberal #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Oligarchy
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The role this Oligarch and his cronies played in literally capitalizing, enriching, and then taking sole credit for the state funded, collaborative labor of unsung scientists and engineers over generations is an obscenity!
‘Free Speech’ Grifter Shares Billionaire’s Demonic Vision For America’s Future
#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #Politics #News #Oligarch #antiDemocratic #Illiberal #Monopolistic
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Fucking hell - there's no way to sign out of the Android #YouTube app!
Not without signing out of every #Google app on the phone 😳
I still use Maps and the Play Store, so how does that work?I've had it with #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #monopolistic bullshit 😡
This is #datarape - I DO NOT CONSENT ❌
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The discussion of what news media calls "price controls" needs to be framed a bit differently.
It's not "price controls" ala Nixon and 1971 gas prices.
It's Stopping the Scalping by pharmaceutical, food, entertainment ticket mongers and other #middlemen #parasites that infest the US #economy.
The goal is not to limit consumption of a resource, it's to limit illegal unreasonable #profits of #amoral #corrupt #monopolistic #corporations.
#StopTheScalping campaign
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Black Alabama Mayor Allowed to Lead Town After White Officials Blocked Him From Office
#BlackMastodon #PoliteWhiteSupremacy #AntiBLack #RacistGaslighting #AntiDemocratic #Illiberal #Monopolistic #Neoliberal
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You Won't Believe How The Credit Card Industry Actually Works.
#MorePerfectUnion
#Predatory #AntiCompetitive #Monopolistic #Capitalism
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The well-off and financially secure easily get into this pipe-dream that if we just decentralise and free everything, democracy just happens like magic.
But democracy doesn’t actually happen, oligarchy happens. Freedom from central control means those resources are fought over by the most powerful, not shared like in a democracy.
Competition is healthy, as long as there is competition. But what we increasingly have also in the #west is #monopolistic #oligarchy.
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CW: Long thread/14
Which is to say that because interest rates increase the costs for businesses who enjoy #monopolistic #MarketPower, interest rate increases also cause *price* increases. And not to put too fine a point on it, the economists' term of art for "a sustained rise in the price level" is...*inflation*.
Fix says that at best, monetary policy - raising interest rates - simply fails to cause inflation. But at worst, it actually *increases* inflation.
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You can be forgiven for thinking that the Great #Inflation Story is how a recent once-in-a-century pandemic, combined with a senseless war, combined with #monopolistic price-gouging, temporarily drove prices up by less than ten percent, prompting calls to crush worker power and suppress wages in order to "reduce demand" for scarce goods:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/14/medieval-bloodletters/#its-the-stupid-economy
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CW: Long thread/eof
Shortly after the announcement, Sick.codes tweeted how the fine-print in the MOU would have prevented him from doing the work he's already done (including "a direct stab at me lol"):
https://twitter.com/sickcodes/status/1612484935495057409
As with other instances of #monopolistic, corporate copyfraud - like, say, the deceptive #OpenGamingLicense - the John Deere capitulation is really a bid to take away your rights, dressed up as a gift of more rights:
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109671311117461902
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Last week, a Social Media and #PoliticalCommentator appeared on RT's BoomBust program, and namedropped #Gab as "entirely independent run, including their #paymentProcessors".
That's false — #Gab is Cloudflare.
This was framed in relation to #Parler, which they identified as being attacked by Amazon and Apple, but Cloudflare is among the most #monopolistic and predatory in tech.
The #commentator who made this false claim is Lauren Chen.
Please boost.
Know her or anyone at #RT? Tell them.
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Yesterday, a #socialMedia and political #commentor appeared on #RT's #BoomBust program, and namedropped #Gab as "entirely independent run, including their payment processors".
But its untrue. Gab is #Cloudflare.
This was framed in relation to #Parler, which they identified as being attacked by #Amazon and #Apple, but Cloudflare is among the most #monopolistic and predatory in tech.
The commentator who made this false claim is #LaurenChen.
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@koherecoWatchdog
Yes, its a weird dilemma having both #Google and CF on #bitcoinExchanges. One would expect that over time and if used properly the coins might become less "known" by those sordid, #monopolistic #corporations.There are things that people can do to reduce the impact of them but yes, megaCorporations will try to undermine #BTC because they know 'where there bread is buttered'.
People going in now need to be a bit cautious.
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. @aral You have to be non-techie, non-political, non-activist, not know google history of #ugliness, not read/seen how these #monopolistic #dataGatherers are harming commoners. Of course there are plenty of exceptions but I would say that's the core base and then there are those who have resigned in their fight (to protect their data) or accepted it as #fate...!