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pluralistic, to random
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Anyone who says "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product" has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

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pluralistic, to aitools
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It was all downhill after 2018.

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Goldface

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Goldfinger

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Snailmail

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ceci n'est pas une bannière

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Pronto

pluralistic,
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@Ulan_KA It is stickered, defaced, scratched and scuffed. Contrast with, e.g., https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/51334575751/

pluralistic, to vexillology
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Avanti popolo

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Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Greedflation, but for prisoners; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 21) in TORINO, then in Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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pluralistic,
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@tastyraspberry Not sure!

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Today in "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" news: The Appeal has published the first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices, revealing just how badly the prison profiteer system gouges American's all-time, world-record-beating prison population:

https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in

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pluralistic,
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@vegos_f06

  1. I have a good reason for using the instance I do, and

  2. Even if I had a higher character limit I would still break posts down into individual toots

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

Knittingdancer, to random
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@pluralistic I thought you might find the free part of this interesting: https://www.netinterest.co/p/decisions-nobody-made

pluralistic,
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@Knittingdancer It's already on my TBR!

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Precaratize bosses; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/

#Pluralistic

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me SUNDAY (Apr 21) in TORINO, then in Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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pluralistic,
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@steveyaeger I'm so pleased to hear it!

pluralistic,
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@jwcph Because users who want to open links in new tabs can do so (right click/middle click) that way, while people who don't want new tabs just have to click. If links are set to target a new tab every time, then users can't choose.

pluralistic,
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@jpaskaruk Competition law, revitalize consumer/privacy/labor enforcement, unionization.

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Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

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pluralistic,
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@mick Thank you!

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I finally got a copy of . I'm so looking forward to reading an assembly language thriller? Do I have that right, @pluralistic . The Bezel is an assembly language thriller?

pluralistic,
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@tanyatussing Absolutely.

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“Conflict is a reliable way to know whether or not you're a leftist. As Steven Brust says, the way to distinguish a leftist is to ask "What's more important, human rights, or property rights?" If you answer "Property rights are human right," you're not a leftist. Leftists don't necessarily oppose all property rights - they just think they're less important than human rights.”

“ Hate ”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/

pluralistic,
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@msbellows @rberger This is still fully compatible.

Is it OK to take away a scared child's familiar teddy bear if it's carrying a contagion that threatens the health of everyone else, even if that child is immune?

Yes. Property rights are sometimes a means to achieve human rights, but property rights aren't human rights.

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