#timwu — Public Fediverse posts
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“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI
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“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI
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I’m #reading The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered the #Economy and Threaten Our #Future #Propserity by #TimWu #books #BookSky #platforms
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I’m #reading The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered the #Economy and Threaten Our #Future #Propserity by #TimWu #books #BookSky #platforms
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2 “That’s why the real challenge for #humanity is to design an #economic #future that works for most people, rather than just assuming that future will arrive one day.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperity
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2 “That’s why the real challenge for #humanity is to design an #economic #future that works for most people, rather than just assuming that future will arrive one day.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperity
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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/Yepnhe1T-9U?si=jjPhwVwN4coI38_lI read the transcript of this discussion yesterday and found it informative and thought provoking. The points raised about the inadequacies of the neoclassical conceptual toolbox and liberal political thought in general when faced with the corporate power of the internet giants are especially noteworthy.
Unfortunately, my institutional subscription to the NYT limits article sharing, so I hope this YouTube of the discussion is an acceptable alternative.
#Internet #SocialMedia #EzraKlein #CoryDoctorow #TimWu #Enshittification #Extraction #Monopoly #Neoliberalism
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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/Yepnhe1T-9U?si=jjPhwVwN4coI38_lI read the transcript of this discussion yesterday and found it informative and thought provoking. The points raised about the inadequacies of the neoclassical conceptual toolbox and liberal political thought in general when faced with the corporate power of the internet giants are especially noteworthy.
Unfortunately, my institutional subscription to the NYT limits article sharing, so I hope this YouTube of the discussion is an acceptable alternative.
#Internet #SocialMedia #EzraKlein #CoryDoctorow #TimWu #Enshittification #Extraction #Monopoly #Neoliberalism
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If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail
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If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail
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#TimWu: "Tuesday’s ruling is clearly wrong on the merits. The government charged that #Meta, then called Facebook, broke the law when it bought up its competitors Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014. Judge #Boasberg threw out the case by concluding that Meta lacks #monopolypower now, when the relevant question should have been whether it had monopoly power at the time."
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#TimWu: "Tuesday’s ruling is clearly wrong on the merits. The government charged that #Meta, then called Facebook, broke the law when it bought up its competitors Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014. Judge #Boasberg threw out the case by concluding that Meta lacks #monopolypower now, when the relevant question should have been whether it had monopoly power at the time."
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#TimWu (2018) – La commodité [de confort] est la force la plus sous-estimée et la moins comprise dans le monde d’aujourd’hui. En tant que moteur des décisions humaines, elle n’offre pas le frisson coupable des désirs sexuels inconscients, ni l’élégance mathématique des incitations de l’économiste. La commodité est ennuyeuse. [Pourtant], dans les pays développés du XXIe siècle, la commodité semble être la force la plus puissante qui façonne nos vies et nos économies.
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#TimWu: "…more important than #thedeal itself is the approach. It hints at a new era in economic policy for the United States that is centered on a paramount leader (Mr. #Trump) actively picking winners and losers. To be sure, the federal government, usually by way of Congress, has previously practiced #industrialpolicy. But the #centralization of policy in the president would be something different: more like a command economy, which in the United States might be called #commandcapitalism."
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#TimWu: "…more important than #thedeal itself is the approach. It hints at a new era in economic policy for the United States that is centered on a paramount leader (Mr. #Trump) actively picking winners and losers. To be sure, the federal government, usually by way of Congress, has previously practiced #industrialpolicy. But the #centralization of policy in the president would be something different: more like a command economy, which in the United States might be called #commandcapitalism."
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Tim Wu : La tyrannie de la commodité (traduction française)
https://greenwashingeconomy.com/tyrannie-commodite-par-tim-wu/
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Tim Wu : La tyrannie de la commodité (traduction française)
https://greenwashingeconomy.com/tyrannie-commodite-par-tim-wu/
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Plz @superwuster, write an essay about how centralized technology in fiefdoms is dumbing down the population of convenience zombies. Make it an extension of your #TyrannyOfConvenience essay. Knowledge empowers. When people flock to a flagship (#FB, #LinkedIn, #Signal, #LemmyWorld, mastodon.social, etc) they choose the disempowerment that results from avoiding knowledge.
People /should/ grapple with things like #PGP key exchanges.
People who know enough to avoid the major tech giants still fuck this up by choosing the easy path (Signal, Lemmy.world, etc). Then they hypocritically tout the importance of #decentralization from their centralised Cloudflare platforms, effectively setting a poor example for the basic ideas ppl should hold in high esteem.
Even *in universities* students are clinging on to /easy/ tech. Google docs, facebook, MS Word (not LaTeX). The new culture of knowledge avoidance is a big component of the Tyranny of Convenience. We need a #TimWu essay to cover this -- to reach your massive influence of 28 followers (wtf?).
Should such an essay be written?
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“When Boeing and McDonnell Douglas sought to merge in 1996, the Clinton White House pushed for the approval of what was a clearly anti-competitive merger apparently based on the belief that the United States needed a company large enough to compete effectively with Europe’s Airbus. At the risk of stating the obvious, Boeing has not benefited from those indulgences.” #TimWu https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/google-antitrust-remedy.html
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The more I read from them the more I believe that the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet was its discovery by Law Professors
I wonder what Henry V would have thought about airline regulation?
The NetChoice Decision Shows the First Amendment Is Out of Control
The reasoning in the decision in the NetChoice cases marks a new threat to a core function of the state. By presuming that free speech protections apply to a tech company’s “curation” of content, even when that curation involves no human judgment, the Supreme Court weakens the ability of the government to regulate so-called common carriers like railroads and airlines — a traditional state function since medieval times.
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#5yrsago The Curse of Bigness: #TimWu channels #Brandeis on #BigTech (and Big Everything Else) https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/26/the-curse-of-bigness-tim-wu-channels-brandeis-on-big-tech-and-big-everything-else/
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#5yrsago The Curse of Bigness: #TimWu channels #Brandeis on #BigTech (and Big Everything Else) https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/26/the-curse-of-bigness-tim-wu-channels-brandeis-on-big-tech-and-big-everything-else/
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#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/18/veeps-profiles-in-insignificance-a-look-at-the-bumbling-murdering-drunken-idiots-and-others-whove-served-as-vice-president-of-the-usa/
#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/a-fema-level-fail-the-law-professor-who-coined-net-neutrality-lashes-out-at-the-fccs-legal-strategy/
#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials https://divergentdave.github.io/nsa-o-matic/
#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan https://mochihead.tumblr.com/post/31243751745
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#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/18/veeps-profiles-in-insignificance-a-look-at-the-bumbling-murdering-drunken-idiots-and-others-whove-served-as-vice-president-of-the-usa/
#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/a-fema-level-fail-the-law-professor-who-coined-net-neutrality-lashes-out-at-the-fccs-legal-strategy/
#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials https://divergentdave.github.io/nsa-o-matic/
#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan https://mochihead.tumblr.com/post/31243751745
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Biden's ceding of antitrust policy to the left of the party, combined with disaffected GOP senators viewing Khan as their enemy's enemy, led to Khan's historic appointment as FTC Chair. In that position, she was joined by a slate of Biden trustbusters, including #JonathanKanter at the DOJ Antitrust Division, #TimWu at the #WhiteHouse, and other important, skilled and principled fighters like #AlvaroBedoya (FTC), #RebeccaSlaughter (FTC), #RohitChopra (#CFPB), and many others.
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Biden's ceding of antitrust policy to the left of the party, combined with disaffected GOP senators viewing Khan as their enemy's enemy, led to Khan's historic appointment as FTC Chair. In that position, she was joined by a slate of Biden trustbusters, including #JonathanKanter at the DOJ Antitrust Division, #TimWu at the #WhiteHouse, and other important, skilled and principled fighters like #AlvaroBedoya (FTC), #RebeccaSlaughter (FTC), #RohitChopra (#CFPB), and many others.
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But neither claim holds water. Far from being pie-in-the-sky idealists with no theory of change, the party's left is *incredibly* good at getting stuff done. Take the antitrust enforcers #LinaKhan and #JonathanKanter, as well as the recently departed #TimWu. They aren't mere idealists - they're *brilliant* tacticians and proceduralists who have figured out how to use their existing authority to do more than decades of their predecessors combined:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff
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But neither claim holds water. Far from being pie-in-the-sky idealists with no theory of change, the party's left is *incredibly* good at getting stuff done. Take the antitrust enforcers #LinaKhan and #JonathanKanter, as well as the recently departed #TimWu. They aren't mere idealists - they're *brilliant* tacticians and proceduralists who have figured out how to use their existing authority to do more than decades of their predecessors combined:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff
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Hey look at this
* RIP #Metaverse https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5 (h/t Metafilter)
* The Case for Judge #TimWu https://prospect.org/justice/2023-05-09-case-for-judge-tim-wu/
* The UK Finally Published its Competition Bill. Was it Worth the Wait? https://techpolicy.press/the-uk-finally-published-its-competition-bill-was-it-worth-the-wait/
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Hey look at this
* RIP #Metaverse https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5 (h/t Metafilter)
* The Case for Judge #TimWu https://prospect.org/justice/2023-05-09-case-for-judge-tim-wu/
* The UK Finally Published its Competition Bill. Was it Worth the Wait? https://techpolicy.press/the-uk-finally-published-its-competition-bill-was-it-worth-the-wait/
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#10yrsago #PrendaLaw judge says porno #CopyrightTrolls are frauds, identity thieves; $80K in fines and disbarment pending https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/prenda-hammered-judge-sends-porn-trolling-lawyers-to-criminal-investigators/
#10yrago #TheOnion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article https://www.theonion.com/syrian-electronic-army-has-a-little-fun-before-inevitab-1819574930
#10yrsago #TimWu and I talk networks, policy and the future https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/05/cory_doctorow_joins_tim_wu_for_the_slate_podcast_stranger_than_fiction.html
#10yrsago Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong: YA graphic novel about robots, romance and school elections https://memex.craphound.com/2013/05/07/nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong-ya-graphic-novel-about-robots-romance-and-school-elections/
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#10yrsago #PrendaLaw judge says porno #CopyrightTrolls are frauds, identity thieves; $80K in fines and disbarment pending https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/prenda-hammered-judge-sends-porn-trolling-lawyers-to-criminal-investigators/
#10yrago #TheOnion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article https://www.theonion.com/syrian-electronic-army-has-a-little-fun-before-inevitab-1819574930
#10yrsago #TimWu and I talk networks, policy and the future https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/05/cory_doctorow_joins_tim_wu_for_the_slate_podcast_stranger_than_fiction.html
#10yrsago Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong: YA graphic novel about robots, romance and school elections https://memex.craphound.com/2013/05/07/nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong-ya-graphic-novel-about-robots-romance-and-school-elections/
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#10yrsago Teaching TCP/IP headers with #legos https://righteousit.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/practical-visual-three-dimensional-pedagogy-for-internet-protocol-packet-header-control-fields/
#10yrsago Future Tense: #NealStephenson and #TimWu talk future, sf and tech https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/04/neal_stephenson_joins_us_for_the_first_stranger_than_fiction_podcast.html
#10yrsago #SOPA’s daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review https://www.science.org/content/article/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteria-choosing-nsf-grants
#5yrsago Hope Larson’s “All Summer Long,” lively YA graphic novel about tween friendships, rock and roll, and being yourself https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/01/hope-larsons-all-summer-long-lively-ya-graphic-novel-about-tween-friendships-rock-and-roll-and-being-yourself/
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#10yrsago Teaching TCP/IP headers with #legos https://righteousit.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/practical-visual-three-dimensional-pedagogy-for-internet-protocol-packet-header-control-fields/
#10yrsago Future Tense: #NealStephenson and #TimWu talk future, sf and tech https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/04/neal_stephenson_joins_us_for_the_first_stranger_than_fiction_podcast.html
#10yrsago #SOPA’s daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review https://www.science.org/content/article/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteria-choosing-nsf-grants
#5yrsago Hope Larson’s “All Summer Long,” lively YA graphic novel about tween friendships, rock and roll, and being yourself https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/01/hope-larsons-all-summer-long-lively-ya-graphic-novel-about-tween-friendships-rock-and-roll-and-being-yourself/
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@bonifartius That’s indeed the most sustainable option but quickly ignored in the land of #tyrannyOfConvenience (#TimWu). As you might have noticed from the two polls the drying rack is the winner in ~70% of the world outside the US but it’s a hard sell in the US. Hence the dehumidified closet approach. Heat pumps are an unexplained failure in the US but perhaps dehumidifiers are the answer.
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@bonifartius That’s indeed the most sustainable option but quickly ignored in the land of #tyrannyOfConvenience (#TimWu). As you might have noticed from the two polls the drying rack is the winner in ~70% of the world outside the US but it’s a hard sell in the US. Hence the dehumidified closet approach. Heat pumps are an unexplained failure in the US but perhaps dehumidifiers are the answer.
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These three - #TimWu, recently departed from the White House; #LinaKhan at the FTC; and #JonathanKanter at the DOJ - wasted no time turning word into deed, taking on mergers, addressing anticompetitive conduct (like blocking #noncompetes and protecting #RightToRepair), and filing suit against abusive firms:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/rest-in-piss-robert-bork/#harmful-dominance
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These three - #TimWu, recently departed from the White House; #LinaKhan at the FTC; and #JonathanKanter at the DOJ - wasted no time turning word into deed, taking on mergers, addressing anticompetitive conduct (like blocking #noncompetes and protecting #RightToRepair), and filing suit against abusive firms:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/rest-in-piss-robert-bork/#harmful-dominance
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#15yrsago God Save Stan Lee tee https://memex.craphound.com/2008/01/24/god-save-stan-lee-tee/
#15yrsago #FBI whistleblower tells librarians about discriminatory practices and bad procedure at the Bureau https://web.archive.org/web/20080127183738/http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/fbi-whistleblower-answers-questions
#10yrsago #TimWu: “Escape From Tomorrow” doesn’t violate Disney’s copyright https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-disney-world
#5yrsago EU fines Qualcomm over $1 billion for anti-competitive iPhone deal https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_421
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#15yrsago God Save Stan Lee tee https://memex.craphound.com/2008/01/24/god-save-stan-lee-tee/
#15yrsago #FBI whistleblower tells librarians about discriminatory practices and bad procedure at the Bureau https://web.archive.org/web/20080127183738/http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/fbi-whistleblower-answers-questions
#10yrsago #TimWu: “Escape From Tomorrow” doesn’t violate Disney’s copyright https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-disney-world
#5yrsago EU fines Qualcomm over $1 billion for anti-competitive iPhone deal https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_421
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This has a #tyrannyOfConvenience element to it. This is a good essay on the topic by #TimWu (the guy who coined the term #netNeutrality): https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html
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I've just managed to ask this.
Tim's answer: "Isn't it obvious?"
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It took a couple of years of looking at the cover of Tim Wu's The Master Switch before I realised that there is double-meaning to that title.
I'm not sure that's been observed before, and haven't found anyone noting this.
Or if Wu intended that or not.
It's ... clever, whether intentional or not.
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Biden nominates another Big Tech enemy, this time to lead the DOJ’s antitrust division - The Biden administration tripled down on its commitment to reining in powerful tec... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bJ0CSQ5y3ik/ #federaltradecommission #bidenadministration #departmentofjustice #competitionlaw #government #section230 #whitehouse #columbia #congress #joebiden #linakhan #bigtech #amazon #google #lawyer #biden #chair #msnbc #timwu #yelp #doj #tc
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Big Tech Showdown Looms As Biden Taps Top Critics Lina Khan, Tim Wu
...President Biden on Monday nominated Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, an agency tasked with enforcing competition laws. She is the splashiest addition to Biden's growing roster of Big Tech critics, including fellow Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, who announced earlier this month he would join the National Economic Council.
The news suggests the White House is preparing for a showdown with the tech industry at a time when federal and state regulators are already pursuing investigations and lawsuits challenging the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Biden has also called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a legal shield for Internet platforms that has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans. ...
#LinaKhan #TimWu #FTC #antitrust #monopoly #uspol #regulation #WelcomeChange