#oligopoly — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oligopoly, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-european-union-tariffs. #Trump wouldn't like the idea of the #EuropeanUnion attacking the #oligopoly #power of his "techbro" pals one little bit, especially as they've contributed so much to putting him in the #WhiteHouse & the #Republicans in control of #Congress.
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The attribution cartel is in Digiday. Major browsers working together on an in-browser advertising feature.
They're going to make it as hard as possible to find and turn off, so one more good reason to start learning the "enterprise management" browser features
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Why do I think that restrictive covenants prohibiting competing grocery stores might be problematic for anyone but the entity trying to prevent competition?
Albertsons is infuriating Bay Area shoppers over vacant grocery stores
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#Neoliberalism is killing #Norway.
Yeah, I said it. It's going to fully convert us over to a #vassalstate and devolved #democracy into slaves under the tyranny of the foreign investor.
The #US is in the hegemon here, but the #EU pivoting hard into the "if you can't beat the US, become the US" mentality just means we got two guns facing us at the same time.
It's about time we do something about #neocolonialism, #oligopoly and foreign encroachment - and it starts with #Norwegian democracy.
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@sglerman95814
That is all well and good, but I’m sure my grandfather and uncles found no comfort in those words when in #Nazi prisons or in the Nazi #slave labour camps. Not to mention ALL of those who were sent to #ConcentrationCamps either.Yes light and love are the healing aspects of our human history as long as you have a history a living. Otherwise, turning the other cheek just gets you nothing but more of the same, that is if you survive at all.
Nazis are to be wiped out, not saved.
#Antifa #ChristoFascists #Oligopoly #TechBros #AntiSocialRich #RogueCapitalism #FinancialVampires #Corruption #Greed #Racism #EugenicsOverlords and many other hashtags. Drive the Nazis out of govt everywhere. #RWNJs -
It has been three years since this conference occured. Three years since a panel of very knowledgeable people have presented alternatives to the madcap economic systems which are leading us to a dead planet (at least for humankind and many of its econsystems). These alternative address major areas requiring dramatic changes:
#Wealth distribution to end #poverty and #inequity
#Decarbonisation to keep our planet alive
#Equality, #education and #enpowerment for all, especially #women
#Sustainable #food production and distribution
An end to #Consumerism and #GPD measured #Growth without advocating #deGrowth
And one more I forgot :( sry. (I should’ve taken notes)
It’s a long video, but if you’re searching for solutions to our social, environmental and economic #trainwrecks, this is a will spell them out for you.
This information has been widely disseminated to educators, activists, political leaders and economists worldwide. So my questions are: What’s holding us back? Why aren’t we seeing something other than a global rise in #Fascism #FossilFuelUse the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Billionairism and #Oligopoly ?
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@joannejacobs
The only individuals pulling up ladders are those in positions of #power (#political or #financial) to preserve their #self-interests. It was ever so and will remain that way until we, the people, come up with an #economic model that will curtail it (we’re still looking for that model, but there are candidates to look at). I don’t see #generational #warfare here, though it can be clothed that way as a means of shifting blame, anger, and attention away from the actual perpetrators, in what is, and always was #ClassWarfare (I.e. those in power cover multiple generations and hapless individuals are brainwashed by their propaganda).I don’t wish to get into an argument about this. I’m just trying to inject some ‘moderation’ in the discourse. Does the #BlameGame push my buttons? Yes it does. Perhaps I should leave well enough alone and not inject myself in conversations when that happens. Experience tells me it rarely ends well. It appears I’m still learning that lesson.
#AusPol #Grifters #Antifa #EatTheRich #BreakUpMediaMonopilies #TaxReformsNow #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising #EndPoliticalDonations ##Oligarchy #Patriarchy #Oligopoly #Technofeudalism #MMT #BanLobbying #Transparency #Accountability #SocialDemocracy #ProgressiveGovt
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I got mentioned in #BoingBoing—"When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on "privacy," watch your wallet"
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/03/when-meta-google-and-apple-agree-on-privacy-watch-your-wallet.html
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@dangillmor And somehow this is the same company that Mozilla decided to partner with on ad tracking in the browser—now a project with Google and Apple involved too, to drive ad money away from legit sites and toward search, social, and app stores.
https://monopoly-report.com/podcast/episode-74-the-attribution-cartel-why-privacy-safe-is-not-what-it-s-made-up-to-be/d59dce94-05d6-4e60-a5c0-95727176a45f #privacy #BigTech #oligopoly
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Canada is a the world leader in rigged markets that pander to MBA fck-wits: “If I was WestJet’s CEO, I would not want any competition. I would want to make it as monopolistic or duopolistic for maximizing profit,” he told the Star.
#airlines #WestJet #competition #oligopoly #rigged #consumers #corporatism #Canada #Cdnbusiness #bussiness #markets #regulations
https://www.thestar.com/business/document-shows-westjets-push-against-federal-air-passenger-rights-regulations/article_04d36601-d56e-49f9-b8a1-650bc3ef3e94.html -
As a famous comedy TV star in decades gone by was often heard to say: ‘Surprise, surprise, surprise.’ (I did watch Gomer Pyle but I wasn’t a fan, if that makes sense - but I digress)
“Report warns AI data centre boom threatens Australia's energy transition.” Who missed this? It has been the talk everywhere and US-side is now dealing with their own #DataCentre issues.
If it wasn’t enough for the #GenAISlop peddlers to hoover up the internet without so much as a thank you to creators of the content, digitising (mostly) library books (Libraries close and #TechBros give you access to the books — For A Fee) and flooding the digital world with regurgitated and confabulated information. These same #LibertarianTechHeads now want our water and energy to run their insane harware platforms. For what? More #Chatbots? More #CrapCoding. More #FakeImages? More #FascistPropaganda?
#NEM #Greenpeace #AusPol #TransitionToRenewables #ClimateChange #WaterResources #EnergyResources #GenAISlop #Oligopoly #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires
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RE: https://aus.social/@luciedigitalni/116580425841503618
'Looming over it all is Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp and chief executive of Fox Corporation, where Abbott sits on the board. The three of them – Abbott, Credlin and Murdoch – are, as one insider puts it, “incredibly tight, thick as thieves”. Murdoch’s media outlets are expected to back whatever Abbott decides'
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https://www.ft.com/content/c3b70fde-3e8a-4661-a4cb-7dc1564f43b1?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Now the horrible zombies of #WallStreet #SiliconValley #billionaires will start buying up all these #bankrupt #farmers leading to even more consolidation and profits while condemning the rest to more pain.
#agriculture #food #land #water #farming #hunger #starvation #inflation #fertilizer #oligopoly
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Multilateralism for middle powers
" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.
We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,
Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.
Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
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Enshitification the Canadian edition.
"It’s a far cry from today’s flying experience, as passengers strain to fit into ever-shrinking seats, contend with new fees for previously included features and fight for compensation following cancelled and delayed flights. The road here was paved by the deregulation of the airline industry and the dominance of Air Canada and WestJet over the Canadian market"
#capitalism #consumerrights #markets #economics #regulations #oligopoly
https://www.thestar.com/business/how-flying-in-canada-went-from-glitz-and-glamour-to-cramped-misery-and-how-we/article_2a16ade5-0e4a-4e7e-a428-9747219a3be3.html -
I've never hated #capitalism as described in my #Economics classes or by its proponents. I hate #CronyCapitalism, #monopolies & #monopsonies & their "oli-" kin ( #oligopoly for example). I want actual #FreeMarket capitalism with strong #rules, enforced equally. I want true #AdamSmith capitalism.
Why The Rich Hate Capitalism -... -
Crazy to think how much power sits with just a few players shaping how AI develops. It's getting so big and interconnected you can’t even tell where one company ends and another begins. #AI #BigTech #Oligopoly #Monopoly
There Is Only One AI Company. ... -
🏴☠️Pirate everything.🏴☠️
Support your local library 📚.
Support authors and creators directly 💸. -
Canada is just three Telecommunications companies in a trench coat.
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Translation: Hi there,
It's your good buddies at Optus here.
Your thank you gift is waiting.
No, it's not a Triple Zero emergency service that doesn't go offline when you need an ambulance.
And no, it's not fair compensation for that time we had a nationwide outage and managed to not just take out your phone and internet, but also half of the national economy.
And no, it's not yet another free subscription to that bloody soccer streaming service. We finally took the hint and shut that down.
No, this time an AI subscription service is looking to deceive its investors by pumping up its paid subscriber numbers.
So we took a bucket of money from them in exchange for spamming our customers with a text message.
You know the deal. 12 months free. You won't get charged if you remember to cancel before the deal expires and then make it through all their dark patterns.
We know we can get away with it because we're one third of one of Australia's big corporate oligopolies.
I mean, what are you going to do? Chances are the whole reason you switched to us is because you were pissed off at Telstra.
And your only other choice is TPG/Voda/iiNet/WestNet/Internode/Lebara/TransACT/Crazy John's/Neighbourhood Cable... (it's all one conglomerate with awful mobile coverage now).
#Optus #perplexityassistant #perplexityai #perplexity #ausbiz #AI #enshittification #business #oligopoly -
CW: USpol
"It's totally fine to make us an even bigger player in an #oligopoly" says the behemoth owner of already-too-many television stations while censoring a late-night talk show host at the behest of the federal government for the sin of criticizing the President.
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»AI Will Not Make You Rich« #GenerativeAI is unlikely to create new #wealth for #inventors and #investors, as its value will be captured by #customers rather than its #builders. Unlike the microprocessor, which spurred a wave of #innovation and #wealthcreation, AI is expected to lead to an #oligopoly, with gains accruing to a few companies. https://joincolossus.com/article/ai-will-not-make-you-rich/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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No, you cannot unsubscribe from #telus #spam, because #capitalism and #oligopoly, which are notoriously elements of fascism, because you know...history.
(Maybe I needed to use all caps?)
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab
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Lúcida y fundamentada lectura anticapitalista de domingo:
"En términos más sencillos, el 35% del mercado bursátil estadounidense está sostenido por seis empresas que compran adaptadores gráficos GPU. Si la historia de crecimiento de NVIDIA tropieza, repercutirá en los otros siete, haciéndoles depender de sus propias historias de comercio de IA.
Y, como paso a explicar, no existe el comercio de IA, porque la IA generativa no está haciendo ganar dinero a nadie."
Enlace traducido: https://www-wheresyoured-at.translate.goog/the-haters-gui/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es-419&_x_tr_pto=wapp
#aihype #generativeAI #corrupcion
#llmjoke #ai2025 #LLM #oligopoly
#eeuu #bolsadenuevayork #ai #noAI
