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8 Dec
When they write the history of this era, one of the strangest chapters will be devoted to Uber, a company that was never, ever going to be profitable, which existed solely to launder billions for the Saudi royals.

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From the start, Uber's "blitzscaling" strategy involved breaking local taxi laws (incurring potentially unlimited civil liability) while losing (lots of) money on every ride. They flushed billions and billions and billions of dollars down the drain.

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But they had billions to burn. Mohammed bin Salman, the murdering Crown Prince of the Saudi royal family, funded Softbank - a Japanese pump-and-dump investment scheme behind Wework and other grifts - with $80B as part of his "Vision 2030" plan.

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8 Dec
When covid struck Florida, @GeoRebekah - a data scientist working for the state - created a dashboard to help people in the state follow the disease's spread as Republican Governor Ron DeSantis lifted restrictions and declared the state open for business.

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DeSantis insisted that lifting restrictions was working fine, but the data told a different story. In June, the state fired Jones after she refused to manipulate the data to maintain the pretense that DeSantis's plan wasn't slaughtering Floridians.

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Jones was undaunted: she set up Florida Covid Action, an independent dashboard that revealed the real case-counts and mortality in counterpoint to the state's official story.

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7 Dec
I know it's a little late for Xmas shipping, but I'm FINALLY getting around to publishing a roundup of all the books I reviewed in 2019!

Part 1: FICTION FOR ADULTS

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I. AGENCY by @GreatDismal: A sequel to The Peripheral for the Trump years, about seductive bitterness of imagined alternate timelines, filled with cyberpunk cool and action.

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II. RIOT BABY by @TochiTrueStory: An incandescent Afrofuturist novella that connects the Rodney King uprising with contemporary struggle, pitting supernatural powers against dire politics.

pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

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7 Dec
In my 2017 novel WALKAWAY, there's a scene where the protagonists get into a self-driving car owned by a ruthless plutocrat, only to discover that it moves faster than any other vehicle they've ever ridden.

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The plute explains that he's done an illegal mod that lets him override the lane-change safety margins and pay fines for it - an illustration of the principle that "a fine is a price."

It was meant as broad satire, not a suggestion.

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Specifically, it was meant to satire the idea that if you create "markets in everything" you'll get efficient allocations - some people REALLY want to change lanes and others only SORTA want to change lanes but the lane-change slots aren't allocated according to priority.

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7 Dec
‘Til I can’t, 'til I can’t, 'til I can’t take no more of it byrneinmotion.tumblr.com/post/636869026…
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7 Dec
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: China’s war on big data backstabbing; Someone Comes to Town Part 25; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/bac…

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Tomorrow morning, I'm giving a talk for the Norwegian Unix Users' Group: "Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What's Really Happening With 'Surveillance Capitalism.'"

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China’s war on big data backstabbing: China's antimonopoly, grounded in price discrimination.



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