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This week on my podcast, the second part of a five (?) part serialized reading of my 2020 One Zero book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, a book arguing that
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There's a lot of ways to think about the movement to tame Big Tech, but one of the more useful divisions to explore is the "Night of the Comet" people
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For a @themarkup feature, @leonyin and @asankin compiled a list of "social and racial justice terms" with help from @ColorOfChange, @mediajustice, @conmijente and @muslimadvocates, then checked if @YouTube would let
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Biden rightfully calls the $2.2t stimulus package a "once-in-a-generation investment in America," but as @AOC points out, it's not nearly enough - the $40b for housing nationwide would barely cover
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Caveat emptor! We've got a couple of hair/beard trimmers around the house that have turned out to be pretty useful during the lockdown for home haircuts. They started to get
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It's a zombie economy. For 40 years, we've eroded the wages of workers and transfered their share of profit and productivity to owners of capital. This is a problem, because
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Remember Howard Dean, the progressive champion who campaigned on equitable health care and other desperately needed policies? He's dead.He's been replaced by Howard Dean, the not-a-lobbyist who won't tell anyone
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When Oxford University began work on its covid vaccine, it promised that the resulting work would be patent-free, with an active tech-transfer assistance program so that developing nations could manufacture
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There is no shortage of takes about what's going on with Gamestop (and other surging stocks), Robinhood and Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, many of them contradictory - at least on the face
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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is
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In most of the world, the lockdown has destroyed small businesses while increasing the profits of Big Tech intermediaries like Amazon, who control access to customers on one side, and
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When you think of the @rcmpgrcpolice, you probably imagine the romantic sight of guys in archaic red brocaded uniforms doing close-order drill on horses while waving Canadian flags. 1/ The
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