It's not surprising that #Microsoft will behave the same way #Google did for years now - doing anything to achieve and keep #monopoly for themselves, regardless of the harm to their users.
We seriously need #openSource alternatives to #bigTech bull*hit, in #Ai, search and everything else that affects us all.
They said it couldn't happen. After decades of #antitrust enforcement against #PredatoryPricing - selling goods below cost to kill existing competitors and prevent new ones from arising - the #ChicagoSchool of neoliberal #economists "proved" that predatory pricing didn't exist and that the courts could stand down and stop busting companies for it.
For monopolists and other predators, the Manne Seminar was an excellent return on investment. After attending a Manne Seminar, the average judge's legal decisions tipped decidedly in favor of #monopoly, operating on the Chicago bedrock assumption that monopolies are "efficient," and, where we see them in nature, we should celebrate them as the visible manifestation of the entrepreneurial genius of some Ayn Rand hero in a corporate boardroom:
Bing, which is 14 years old, receives 40 million visits per day, while #ChatGPT receives 65 million. In spite of having ChatGPT, Bing's share of desktop searches has grown just 0.25% in the past three months, according to The Information. #AI
It's still too early to tell if #Bing (#Microsoft) can bring down the #monopoly of Google, especially knowing that Google will not go down without an #Ai fight.
Hopefully we're gonna see other #openSource alternatives to the #bigTech search options.
There's nothing surprising about the intention of #bigTech companies to keep and expand their #monopoly.
Don't be fooled - they're doing everything for their selfish interests. Benefit for society usually comes only as the byproduct, even though their mouths are full of it.
I'm glad #Google failed with their #AMP project, and that we're still free to choose how we want to build our websites.
👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly". #ElizabethMagie#Monopoly#Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife
A not-so-well-known fact, thanks for publicising. The Women's History website has a lengthy entry on Elizabeth Magie and her "Landlord" game with the Prosperity and Monopoly rule sets.
Magie, in 1903, "actually designed the game as a protest against the big monopolists of her time—people like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller."
What is #Microsoft actually good at? Going thru their key products, it is clear they don't create new paradigms, they make often buggy implementations of ideas from other people: #BASIC#MSDOS#Windows#Word#Excel#browser#Bing#Cloud#dotnet. One thing they are clearly good is building a #monopoly. So it seems what they are good at is seeing good ideas, "embrace and extend" to control it, then building monopoly profiteering.
Hey, #Berkeley! I'm appearing again today at #BayBookFest with #WendyLiu (Abolish Silicon Valley) at 11AM at Freight and Salvage to discuss "Chokepoint Capitalism," the book #RebeccaGiblin and I wrote about #monopoly and creative #labor markets. It's free!
@spreadmastodon anyone have a theory on why facebook beat myspace? i’m working on teasing out why social graphs rot over time, and wondering to what extent it’s a function of the features of a service vs. the stewards of the social graph vs. something else…
Austin, we can probably label that 'relevance' , which changes with context and, using another well worn path of analogy, experiences 'entropy' from that previous state & frame of reference.
That is not limited to youth, however we even define that. Any conceivable group will have characteristics that change over time, destroying the delicate nature of "that one time at band camp" nature of our individual experience, when all the stars aligned.
They're all one-off events though, so very difficult to untangle across these "social generations" (~4-5 yrs). But yes, basically the feature sets, stewards, and other similar inputs are the least significant predictors of longevity & success of X, IMO.
The other side of the equation is the people who invest their time & money into making X work, the degree of #monopoly they're able to maintain, unexpected favorable market/reg conditions, etc.
They also do not operate as a monolith. The Biggest players are rarely the earliest, so their arrival & investment into "the next big thing" (according to the #media that they paid for) can easily change the conditions in favor of the new challengers.
Help build or support a shadow library that isn't on some white libertarian nonsense
Then people don't have to use the above two
Destroy the multinational corporate behemoths behind the lawsuit
(Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House)
Overthrow the illegitimate government which issued the ruling
Fascist police states built on slavery & genocide are bad, actually
"Monopoly wasn’t invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord’s Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie’s original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
"One was called 'Prosperity', where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
"The second set of rules was called 'Monopoly', where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie’s mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies." #Capitalism#Monopoly#Feminist#Socialist#ElizabethMagie#TheLandlordsGame
Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?
Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.
But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.
Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history#women#HistoryRemix
@Sheril The Jewish Holocaust Museum in Sydney has a handmade #Monopoly board representing the ghetto. Next time I'm back there I intend to ask more about it,