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9 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Bought a book in Danish from Saxo.com. They're just a retailer. No vertically integrated hardware. So OF COURSE the ebook format is simply ePub, which you own and can use everywhere, and OF COURSE the audiobook format is MP3, which you can own an use everywhere 😍
Then I learned that the reigning monopolist, Amazon, doesn't even fucking support ePub on the Kindle. Because why would you allow an open format when you squat on the gates of all book content in the US.
Vertical integration is utterly toxic when its combined with a dominant market position. It's how choice is locked up, and the key is held for ransom. Regulators used to know this. Studios couldn't own cinemas. Car makers couldn't own repair shops. Yet somehow we forgot!
This is banal, but the path to choice and competition depends on busting monopolies. Blowing up their strangulating integrations. Insisting on open standards in consent decrees. Ensuring equal access to platforms and content. Failure to do so is surrender.

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10 Nov
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8 Nov
Speaking of believing the virus is a scam: Central Copenhagen was utterly packed to the gills last night. People in the streets. Crammed into restaurants and bars. No fucking masks anywhere in these establishments. Thoroughly, depressingly disappointing.
Danes are very damn good about following official decrees. Mask compliance in public transportation is 100%. Inside department and grocery stores 100%. But anything that isn’t specifically written down? WOOOO!!!
Given what’s happening in basically all the rest of Europe, it’s simply astounding that Danes continue to act like that could never happen here. Or maybe they’ve simply handed over all thinking to Lord Mette. In that case, please, Lord Mette, stop this madness.
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6 Nov
Now let's see how well that "haunt his dreams" part is actually going to hold up. Or if if it all just goes back into the freezer like 2008. A trail of squandered hope and missing change brought us here in the first place.
That's what's so difficult about this. Even with this win, which is good, it's extremely difficult to be optimistic for the American prospect. The problems are so enormous, the trajectory has barely bent, and the final destination is still a fucking abyss.
Rewind to 2008. The caliber of the candidate. The legitimate hope. The clean mandate of power across the board. The state of the union. All the cards were better then! The hand that's about to be played is worse in all regards, thus are not the odds so much longer?
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6 Nov
Following this doctors appointment, I needed an X-ray. Again, referral was in the system. Open choice of 6 facilities to get it done. Booked next-day appointment. In’and’out in 14 fucking minutes. No paperwork, no copay, just healthcare.
This isn’t a perfect system. But it is so fucking superior to what passes for a healthcare system in the US that it is blowing my mind. AND I LIVED HERE FOR THE FIRST 25 YEARS OF MY LIFE. You don’t truly appreciate how rotten the US system is until you try a working alternative.
And this is me, Rich Person With The Best Cadillac Plan + Concierge Service, doing the contrast with simply the standard level of care available to every permanent resident of Denmark. Contrast to anything approximate to average to average and it’s truly abysmal.
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6 Nov
The Rogan interview with Greenwald is an excellent antidote to the I CAN’T COMPREHEND HOW PEOPLE COULD THINK THIS WAY reactions that we are flush with right now. Highly recommend it.
But if you can’t be bothered to listen to people you’ve developed a fixed mental image of, feel free to dismiss* the recommendation with: a) Rogan has had guests I don’t like, b) Glenn spoke on Tucker Carlson, c) Something-something Russia, d) Something-something dudebro.
(* No need to echo these stock dismissals in this thread. Trust me, they’re not novel 😄).
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Jamis was literally the first person I ever hired! The first person to do programming on Basecamp besides myself. It's wonderful to have you back ✌️❤️
The git blame remembers you, Jamis 😄
Spelunking git blame on Basecamp 1 is a treat. I found the "initial" commit from when we jumped from CVS to SVN! Also, that's a 16-year span of commits. On an app that's still serving tens of thousands of users, making millions in revenue ❤️
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