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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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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. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but…

Neoliberalism

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What comes after neoliberalism?
What comes after neoliberalism?
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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

This Day In History

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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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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
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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/

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The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules)

Dobbs, SVB, the Internet Archive, antitrust and the law’s foundation in norms, not consistency. — 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. For many Constitutional law scholars, last years’ Dobbs decision on abortion rights at…

Realpolitik

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The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules)
The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules)
Realpolitik

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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2018. — #20yrsago Google’s Sergey Brin at PC Forum https://craphound.com/google.html #20yrsago Social Software panel at PC Forum https://craphound.com/socialsoftware.html #15yrsago Clay Shirky’s Harvard talk: Here Comes Everybody https://web.archive.org/web/20161226034209/http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/Misc/2008-02-28_shirky/2008-02-28_shirky320web.mp4 #5yrsago London police finally admit they fed intel to UK construction cartel to build illegal blacklist of labour organisers https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/officers-likely-to-have-passed-personal-files-to-blacklisters-says-met…

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This Day In History

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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…

This Day In History

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This day in history

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/

This Day In History

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This day in history
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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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