It's Linkdump Saturday! This is the day on which I clear the giant backlog of links from the previous week that I haven't managed to post in my newsletter's "Hey look at this" sections. This is my 19th linkdump; here's the previous 18 dumps:
https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/
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https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Cory Doctorow
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/liamclift/bad-plumbing
The shapes are delightfully Seussian, and there's an ingenious game dynamic that's not just "make the pile bigger." You can pre-order for $30, and for $100, you'll get a version with a custom-designed shape of your specification. I backed!
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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This week's Pluralistic newsletters were dominated by this brilliant series in the *Prospect*. On Wednesday, I wrote about the *Prospect*'s investigations into algorithmic and surveillance pricing:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/your-price-named/#privacy-first-again
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/07/drip-drip-drip/#drip-off
There's more than I could fit into the newsletter, though, like Friday's excellent piece on the scourge of surge pricing by Sarah Jaffe:
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-07-urge-to-surge/
Jaffe's piece was especially interesting given economist Ramsi Woodcock's compelling case that surge pricing is a *per se* violation of antitrust law:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#pure-transfer
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The Urge to Surge
Sarah Jaffe (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/lately/article-the-millennial-economist-who-took-on-the-world/
(Though if you get your econ ideas from the *New York Times*, you'd miss this whole revolution, as the Grey Lady's views on prices remain mired in the Reagan era:)
https://twitter.com/HalSinger/status/1798849195664916648
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The millennial economist who took on the world
The Lately staff (The Globe and Mail)Cory Doctorow
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https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2024-06-07-homeowners-want-housing-prices-to-go-up/
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Homeowners Want Housing Prices to Go Up
David Dayen (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/06/the-rents-too-damned-high/
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa
Her labor coverage is second to none:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets
And no one writes better than her about private equity:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben
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Cory Doctorow
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https://prospect.org/health/2024-06-06-nih-perpetuating-long-covid-denial/
The fact that Tkacik is doing this career-defining, high-frequency work *while* being randomly smashed by a series of acute Long Covid incidents makes her achievements nothing sort of heroic.
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Why Is NIH Perpetuating Long COVID Denial?
Maureen Tkacik (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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Tkacik's Long Covid coverage adds yet another subject where I'm learning more from the *Prospect* than from other sources - part of a host of issues where the magazine leads the pack.
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Cory Doctorow
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This week, I eagerly devoured Luke Goldstein's story about the latest in a series of lies that Amazon executives were caught making to the US government:
https://prospect.org/labor/2024-06-06-senators-allege-amazon-lied-delivery-drivers/
You may recall when Jeff Bezos lied to Congress, claiming that the company didn't spy on its sellers and clone their best products:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58961836
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos 'may have lied to Congress'
BBC NewsCory Doctorow
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https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/our-recent-response-to-representative-pocan
The latest lie: Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy lied to the Senate about the company's relationship to its drivers, whom it insists are "independent contractors" because they are hired through cutouts called "Delivery Service Providers":
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/
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Our recent response to Representative Pocan
Amazon Staff (US About Amazon)Cory Doctorow
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You know what they say, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up. Tech barons go through life in a warm bath of their own bullshit, surrounded by lackeys who are contractually prohibited from calling them on it.
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Cory Doctorow
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That's why Facebook lied to the FCC when they bought Instagram, withholding key information in order to secure regulatory permission for the merger:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ftc-claims-facebook-withheld-information-152834983.html
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Cory Doctorow
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https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/04/why-is-there-so-much-antitrust-energy-for-big-tech-but-not-for-big-telco/
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Cory Doctorow
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24172868/ftc-doj-antitrust-openai-microsoft-nvidia-investigations
Yeah, there's still a lot of policy focus on tech, but that's because tech has extended its tendrils into every area of policy.
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FTC and DOJ reportedly opening antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia
Emilia David (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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The latest example; EFF's "Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests" by Rory Mir, Thorin Klosowski and Christian Romero:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/surveillance-defense-campus-protests
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Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://libro.fm/bogo
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Cory Doctorow
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https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/
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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22
Locus OnlineCory Doctorow
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I used to like the surface of the earth being amenable to human life, but now that I'm one of the select few in a bunker with the nuclear codes, I've bombed everyone.
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