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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back

Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies, monopsonies - or both.

2022

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2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago Fiction, interview and review online at Strange Horizons https://web.archive.org/web/20030402125015/http://www.strangehorizons.com/Contents.html #20yrsago Atwood: America is selling itself out https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/letter-america-3/ #15yrsago Hackers publish thousands of copies of fingerprint of German Minister who promotes fingerprint biometrics https://www.wired.com/2008/03/hackers-publish/

This Day In History

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21 hours ago

We should ban TikTok(‘s surveillance)

And Google’s, Apple’s, and Facebook’s surveillance, too. — Have you ever wanted to say thank you for these posts? Here’s how you can: I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible. With the RESTRICT Act, Congress is proposing to continue Trump’s war on Tiktok, enacting a US ban on the Chinese-owned service. How will they do this? Congress isn’t clear. In practice, banning stuff on the internet is hard, especially if you don’t have a national firewall:

Restrict Act

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We should ban TikTok(‘s surveillance)
We should ban TikTok(‘s surveillance)
Restrict Act

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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Weezer’s symbolic value https://web.archive.org/web/20190519021721/https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~mustaste/weezerthesis.htm #15yrsago Griefers deface epilepsy message-board with seizure-inducing animations https://www.wired.com/2008/03/hackers-assault-epilepsy-patients-via-computer/ #15yrsago London’s Spitalfields market: shoot the architecture, we take away your camera https://memex.craphound.com/2008/03/30/remixed-generic-thrift-store-clothes/

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1 day ago

Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy

When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts. — Have you ever wanted to say thank you for these posts? Here’s how you can do that: I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but…

Naomi Novik

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Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy
Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy
Naomi Novik

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2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago SARS: The Mystery Illness https://web.archive.org/web/20030408021713/http://www.cbc.ca/news/sars/ #20yrsago KPMG makes hysterical, self-serving wardriving report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2885339.stm #20yrsago Facts don’t violate trademarks https://web.archive.org/web/20030803080408/https://www.eff.org/IP/20030328_taxes-com_pr.php #15yrsago British Airways loses 15–20,000 bags since Thursday at supremely b0rked Heathrow Terminal 5 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7320771.stm…

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2 days ago

What comes after neoliberalism?

”There is no alternative” is really a demand, namely, “Stop trying to think of an alternative!” — Have you ever wanted to say thank you for these posts? Here’s how you can do that: I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. …

Neoliberalism

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What comes after neoliberalism?
What comes after neoliberalism?
Neoliberalism

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3 days ago

This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Shirky: Why 3G is doomed https://web.archive.org/web/20030602075613/http://shirky.com/writings/permanet.html #20yrsago Fed snoops want to wiretap the Internet https://www.theregister.com/2003/03/27/fbi_seeks_internet_telephony_surveillance/ #15yrsago Chase Mortgage leaked memo shows “cheats and tricks” used to give out unqualified mortgages https://web.archive.org/web/20080330074501/https://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/120658650589950.xml&coll=7

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3 days ago

Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores

Walmart’s jackals, picking over the remains. — I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible. Across America, rural communities and big cities alike are passing ordinances limiting the…

Dollar Stores

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Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores
Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores
Dollar Stores

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4 days ago

Silicon Valley Noir

Red Team Blues and the Role of Bitterness in Technothrillers. — My next novel is Red Team Blues, an anti-finance finance thriller starring Martin Hench, a high-tech forensic accountant who’s spent 40 years busting Silicon Valley grifters large and small. At 67, Marty’s seen it all, and while he is full of compassion for the victims of the scams he unwinds…

Noir

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Silicon Valley Noir
Silicon Valley Noir
Noir

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5 days ago

This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago Mexico sells out its future by extending copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20030313230051/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_03.shtml #15yrsago New US Cyber-Security Czar has no cyber-security experience https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903125.html #15yrsago How CBC torrented a TV show https://www.last100.com/2008/03/26/inside-story-the-making-of-a-legal-tv-torrent/

This Day In History

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This Day In History

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Cory Doctorow

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