Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The super-rich got that way through monopolies; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/
#Pluralistic
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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
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The super-rich got that way through monopolies: A report in honor of Davos.
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Hey look at this
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The coming storm
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Retrocomputer miniatures
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#GoogleSearch Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
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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
#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster
#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials
#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan
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#10yrsago Scoring Obama’s NSA reforms (spoiler: it’s not good)
#15yrsago Mr Chicken: the genius who paints London’s fried-chicken signs
#10yrsago Congress requires publicly funded research to be publicly available
#10yrsago Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation
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#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper
#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards
#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike
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#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective
#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about
#1yrago #EleanorJanega’s “Once and Future Sex”: The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex
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Yesterday’s threads: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; and more!
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