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26 Oct

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MONOPOLIES SUCK is a title I wish I'd thought of - talk about "does what it says on the tin!"

It's by @Sally_Hubbard, Director of Enforcement Strategy at @openmarkets and retired antitrust enforcer for the NY Attorney General.

It's great.

simonandschuster.com/books/Monopoli…

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Hubbard's got deep experience, and she brings the same kind of verve to this book that Zephyr Teachout delivered in her (also excellent) (and also brilliantly titled) BREAK 'EM UP:

pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…

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But Hubbard's got another thing going for her: institutional support. The Open Markets Institute operates a range of advocacy programs for angry members of the public (e.g. you), and each of Hubbard's chapters ends on ways you can engage in the policy questions she raises.

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26 Oct

THE SHINING
1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick
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26 Oct

Barbara Shelley as Leonora Brandt in Cat Girl (1957) dir. Alfred Shaughnessy draculasdaughter.tumblr.com/post/633066398…

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26 Oct

I LOVE a ferris wheel and I am here to say that the ferris wheel's moment has arrived.

Two weeks ago, I cheered as Japan's Yomiuriland theme park started renting its ferris wheels as socially distanced work-pods:

pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…

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And now I'm delighted to see that the Budapest Eye, a monumental ferris wheel with astounding views was turned into a pop-up one-night dining room by a fancy Hungarian restaurant:

reuters.com/article/us-hea…

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Costes, a Michelin starred restaurant, set out a four-course prix fixe meal for diners and, judging from this video, served a different course with each revolution of the wheel:

news.yahoo.com/michelin-starr…

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26 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Phone surveillance, made in Canada; Chile restores democratic rule; Someone Comes to Town, Part 20; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320747874519445506

Phone surveillance, made in Canada: Octasic takes over from Harris's Stingray division.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320747874519445506

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320761755493044231

Chile restores democratic rule: Neoliberal's first gunshot has stopped echoing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320761755493044231

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26 Oct

Neoliberalism's starting gun went off on 1973, when a US- and UK-backed fascist military deposed Salvador Allende, the incredibly popular, democratically elected president of Chile.

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The coup embodied Peter Thiel's summation of the libertarian principle that "Democracy is incompatible with liberty," where "liberty" means the freedom of the 1% to amass unlimited wealth at the expense of the starving, brutalized 99%.

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The new dictator, Augusto Pinochet, was feted by Anglo-American right wing figures, including the elite of the Chicago School of Economics and their cult leader, Friedrich Hayek, who traveled to Chile to oversee a program of torture and murder as Pinochet consolidated power.

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