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Apple is not natural. �
The corporation, that is, not the fruit. �Apple the corporation is the creation of the government. �It is important to remember this, because two strains of thought that ...
by angryea
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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A series of proposals that will make Marc Andreesen furious and ensure I am never promoted by Substack. �But the technology industry is massively broken, socializing the costs of its work while ...
by angryea
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Guest: Public Citizen's competition policy expert Matt Kent
Also: House GOP's dangerous debt default gambit may come sooner than expected...
If you can get through the troubling news at the top ...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Jan 11, 2023 at 06:43 PM PST
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Ticketmaster Mexico will face substantial fines over issuing tickets concertgoers were unable to use during Bad Bunny’s final tour dates in Mexico City for his “World’s Hottest Tour.” Gizmodo reports that 1,700 fans were unable to catch Bad Bunny’s...
by April Siese
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on Tue Dec 13, 2022 at 11:38 AM PST
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Guest Host Nicole Sandler with authors Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin...
It's NICOLE SANDLER, filling in again for Brad and Desi on the BradCast . [ Audio link to full show is posted below this ...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Oct 07, 2022 at 04:05 PM PDT
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Yesterday I heard a report on NPR on inflation which discussed why it doesn’t seem to be cooling down — and it mentioned what Biden had to say earlier this year.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: While ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 11:31 AM PDT
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Hat tip to Charles P.�Pierce at Esquire for pointing to a New Yorker article by Casey Cep:
Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Sep 13, 2022 at 06:31 PM PDT
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Big Tech is freaking out over a Senate anti-trust bill that would block the biggest firms—especially Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook—from using their power to give themselves major advantages over other companies, to the detriment of consumers as...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Apr 12, 2022 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Yesterday I posted a diary about Solutionary Rail as a response to the IPCC report. America’s railroad infrastructure could get carbon out of transportation, connect the entire country to clean power, and revitalize the economy while also building for...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 07:37 AM PDT
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Writing in the New York Times, Tim Wu (@superwuster) a law professor at Columbia University, a contributing Opinion writer and the author, most recently, of “The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age” suggests That Flour You Bought Could Be...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jul 25, 2020 at 09:15 AM PDT
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Donald Trump wants anti-trust enforcement in the United States to be the responsibility of a lobbyist who’s worked for health insurance giants Anthem and Blue Cross Blue Shield, as well as Comcast and other major corporations. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is...
by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Aug 07, 2017 at 08:04 AM PDT
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Someone made a comment on Facebook (Yeah, we know how that works) about rural America being depopulated as part of the U.N. Agenda 21. I figured it might not be a bad idea to offer up an alternative explanation, trying to channel Robert Reich on this. ...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Dec 17, 2016 at 09:25 AM PST
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According to multiple news outlets, AT&T has agreed to a blockbuster $86 billion acquisition of Time Warner, a move that would turn America's most storied telecom company into one of the most prominent TV, film and video-game producers in the...
by MikeMaloney
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on Sat Oct 22, 2016 at 03:28 PM PDT
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Conservatives are in something of a tizzy over a claim by a former trending topics moderator that Facebook deliberately suppressed conservative opinions and news sources. Senators have gotten ...
by angryea
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on Fri May 20, 2016 at 08:44 AM PDT
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Today’s NY Times column by Paul Krugman spells out one of the reasons why the U.S. economy is still underperforming at everything except funneling money to the .1 percent: too many corporations control so much of their markets, they have no incentive...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Apr 18, 2016 at 10:00 AM PDT
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At a time when Americans are cutting spending to pay for prescription drugs, companies are increasing the price of medication by hundreds of dollars overnight.
by z3rg3m3n
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on Sat Sep 26, 2015 at 02:40 PM PDT
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Paul Blumenthal at Huffington Post has a must-read interview with Zephyr Teachout. She challenged Andrew Cuomo in the primary race for governor of New York this year, and did surprisingly well ...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Nov 23, 2014 at 08:00 AM PST
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This image is about the feeding chain in the dominance of search engines. However, it also captures the evolutionary process of technology companies. IBM captured a dominant position in the ...
by Richard Lyon
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on Tue Sep 09, 2014 at 10:13 AM PDT
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I'm reposting this from what I just wrote on Facebook. By way of intro, I'm an out of work journalist who many years ago worked for the The Tulsa (Oklahoma) World as a reporter. What I'm addressing ...
by rproctor
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on Thu Mar 06, 2014 at 11:44 PM PST
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So here we have billionaires and millionaires, a group of "free market capitalists" that tout meritocracy, conspiring and colluding to cripple wages for their workers.
That DOJ suit became the ...
by csainvestor
162 comments
on Mon Jan 27, 2014 at 10:54 AM PST
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