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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Amazon is a ripoff; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/

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peterjriley2024,
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international actions later this month)

matt_diamond,
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“If you trust Amazon search to find you the best product and click [one of] the first four items, you'll pay an average of 25% more..

On average, the best deal on Amazon is found in the seventeenth slot in the search results.”

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/

compl4xx,
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@pluralistic Hey :) did Khan publish the article in 2017 or 2018? I think there is a typo in the article

pluralistic,
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@compl4xx Right you are - fixed at the permalink, thank you!

Talia,
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@pluralistic What a lovely (almost my) birthday gift! Thanks Cory :keanu_thanks:

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@Talia HBD!

ipd,

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Magister Liddite.

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Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111364451740010626

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Hey look at this

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Dashboard cig lighters are the new cup-holders https://money.cnn.com/2003/11/04/pf/autos/lighters/index.htm

Runner: a game to teach regular expressions to kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2ZchTUEvQ

voting machine manual instructs election officials to use and recycle weak passwords https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/unisyn-voting-machine-manual-instructs-election-officials-to-use-and-recycle-weak-passwords/

Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/steganographically-hiding-secret-messages-in-fake-fingerprints/

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The internet is made up of revolutionary technologies, but isn’t revolutionary https://locusmag.com/2018/11/cory-doctorow-what-the-internet-is-for/

America for sale: 38% of all comes from 0.0001% of Americans (2,210 people account for 25% of the total) https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/america-for-sale-38-of-all-election-funding-comes-from-0-0001-of-americans-2210-people-account-for-25-of-the-total/

The End of https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/06/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom/

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Yesterday's threads: A link-clump demands a linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111358811678808793

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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is it a or isn't it ?

if it is, justify all this travel

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