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Inside: This "inflation" is different; and more!
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This "inflation" is different: New Stiglitz just dropped.
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Hey look at this
* Flickr establishes a nonprofit to oversee its commons flickr.org/why-were-doing…
* Dead End Customer Service deadendcustomerservice.com
* Youth Hacking 4 Freedom contest fsfe.org/news/2022/news… 3/
#15yrsago @Nature releases genome papers under @creativecommons licenses nature.com/articles/45076…
#15yrsago Federal shredding budget soars web.archive.org/web/2008011623…
#15yrsago First-person account of CIA torture survivor salon.com/2007/12/15/bas… 4/
#15yrsago Canada’s DMCA: CBC radio’s Search Engine on the demonstrations and awesome Parliamentary bun-fight that followed web.archive.org/web/2007121420…
#10yrsago Top Pentagon propagandist boasted of running a smear campaign against USA Today usatoday.com/story/news/nat… 5/
#10yrsago What today’s Web can learn from the Web of the early 2000s web.archive.org/web/2012121420…
#10yrsago Police want anarchists to remove files recovered from lost (cop?) thumb-drive styleweekly.com/richmond/watch… 6/
#10yrsago The TSA is an irredeemable shitshow, part ten bazillion web.archive.org/web/2012121422…
#5yrsago San Francisco SPCA uses a robot to chase away homeless people, because cruelty to humans is just fine bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n… 7/
#5yrsago @AjitPai makes a “funny” video dismissing Net Neutrality advocates for fringe-right site avclub.com/the-fccs-ajit-… 8/
#5yrsago Protesters flood the Senate, calling for a delay in voting on the GOP tax plan until new Alabama Senator Doug Jones is seated americanindependent.com/no-jones-no-vo… 9/
#5yrsago How killing Net Neutrality irreparably harms public libraries and the communities they serve theverge.com/2017/12/14/167…
#5yrsago A proposed Australian leaker law will put journalists and whistleblowers in jail for 20 years buzzfeed.com/paulfarrell/au… 10/
#5yrsago Cheap dates: here’s how little it cost the telcoms sector to buy Congress and murder Net Neutrality vice.com/en/article/7xw…
#5yrsago @PikettyLeMonde and 100 researchers: inequality is getting worse, and will continue to worsen wir2018.wid.world/files/download… 11/
#5yrsago Disney buys Fox in all-stock deal, making Rupert Murdoch the largest shareholder in the company nytimes.com/2017/12/14/bus…
#5yrsago Just before the @FCC’s cowardly vote to kill Net Neutrality, they had to evacuate due to “security advice” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 12/
Yesterday's threads: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices; and more!
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* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
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Recent appearances:
* How to take back the arts from Big Tech (@TheRealNews)
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* Corporate Power (@privacyint)
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