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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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Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

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This day in history

2008, 2018. — #15yrsago Walmart infection-spread timelapse video https://web.archive.org/web/20080323083145/http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51 #5yrsago UK Information Commissioner’s Office raids Cambridge Analytica’s London office https://www.dw.com/en/british-authorities-raid-cambridge-analytica-offices-in-london/a-43111987 Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became…

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2013, 2018, 2022. — #10yrsago Sen Chuck Schumer took $100K from private prisons, now gets to help decide whether to send undocumented immigrants to jail https://act.presente.org/sign/schumermoney #10yrsago Congressman boasts on Twitter about the money he got to support CISPA, then thinks better of it https://sunlightfoundation.com/2013/03/22/pro-cispa-lawmaker-deletes-retweet-about-money-received-from-pro-cispa-groups/

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The “small nonprofit school” saved in the SVB bailout charges more than Harvard

It’s got a private ski-hill! — 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 There are no libertarians in a bank run. No sooner had venture capitalists…

Bailouts

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The “small nonprofit school” saved in the SVB bailout charges more than Harvard
The “small nonprofit school” saved in the SVB bailout charges more than Harvard
Bailouts

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2 days ago

Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won’t sell

Narrated by Wil Wheaton! — Today (Mar 22), I’m doing a remote talk for the Institute for the Future’s “Changing the Register” series. Red Team Blues is my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller; it’s a major title for my publishers Tor Books and Head of Zeus, and it’s swept the trade press with…

Kickstarter

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Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won’t sell
Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won’t sell
Kickstarter

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2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago How Slashdot girds its servers https://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/journal/27736 #15yrsago In the age of ebooks, you don’t own your library https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-and-sony-reader-locked-up-why-your-books-369235 #10yrsago NY judge says running a search engine for news is a copyright violation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/ap-v-meltwater-disappointing-ruling-news-search

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Do you have an in with Yahoo Mail ops?

If any of you have an in with Yahoo Mail ops, could you please ask them to unblock http://mail.flarn.com, the server I share with all of six people, none of…

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Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing

Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers. — Tomorrow (Mar 22), I’m doing a remote talk for the Institute for the Future’s “Changing the Register” series. As tech giants reach terminal enshittification, hollowed out to the point where they are barely able to keep their end-users or business customers locked in, the capital classes are ready for the…

Labor

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Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing
Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing
Labor

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2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Talk radio is the province of lying demagogues, bigots and fools https://web.archive.org/web/20030402131244/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/079/oped/Outrageous_times_for_talk_radio+.shtml #10yrsago Bruce Sterling’s closing SXSW keynote: disruption and destruction https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/bruce-sterling-closing-remarks #10yrsago How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act punishes people with disabilities https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/dmca-copyright-reform-u-s-law-makes-digital-media-inaccessible.html…

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Podcasting “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk”

Why today’s Luddites should be smashing apps. — Today (Mar 20), I’m doing a remote talk for the Ostrom Workshop’s Beyond the Web Speaker Series. On Weds (Mar 22), I’m doing a remote talk for the Institute for the Future’s “Changing the Register” series. This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, “Gig Work Is…

Steampunk

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Podcasting “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk”
Podcasting “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk”
Steampunk

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This day in history

2002, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Revolution is Not an AOL Keyword https://web.archive.org/web/20030322155720/http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/000748.html #20yrsago United Way will provide cheap WiFi and PCs to poor people in Philly https://web.archive.org/web/20050316131603/www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7404562 #15yrsago State Department employees canned for snooping in Obama’s passport records https://web.archive.org/web/20080322110151/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

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