That’s not what being a Luddite means

Cory Doctorow refers to this as the Anatevka problem.

Matt Stoller had a nice writeup recently in his monopoly newsletter BIG about how we got into the current mess. TL;DR: basically financialization (prioritizing stock price over innovation, like at Boeing) and a lack of antitrust enforcement as a previously competitive market got monopolized (see chart below)

Never root for a monopoly over at least some semblance of competition

It looks like it was a coalition of groups? Why shit on solidarity unnecessarily?

r > g

Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product

From what I can tell, Bluesky is much more demanding in terms of the technical challenge of doing this on your own, and part of the issue is that some of the key tools to make this easier don’t really exist yet, making it much harder than setting up a Mastodon instance for example, so part of what they want to do is bridge that gap as well as stand up more independent servers.

Free Our Feeds is trying to make this happen

Now the real question is: Will it also let me bypass UK age-gating on the web?

This is literally the one site whose journalism every Lemming should support

The schismogenesis in the comments and downvotes here is wild: “dystopia is good when it hurts scumbags”—um, no, both can be bad??

That’s literally the point of the article?

2 truths and a lie…the deep ecology movement and the Unabomber would seem to undermine your third claim

First, they make the proceedings private: there’s no public record of the proceedings or verdict, and even if you win there’s no precedent that others can use. The for-profit nature of the arbitrator (much or even most of whose business comes from corporate clients) represents a conflict of interest.

Second, they isolate the plaintiff: you can’t sue as part of a class action, so no lawyer can represent a group of similarly wronged people in exchange for a percentage of any verdict. This means you have to pay for your own lawyer, which many people can’t afford to do and even if you can it may not be worth it if the damage is small enough.

Together, these issues massively favor business and employers that include these clauses in contracts, as reflected in both win rates for corporations as well the number of cases brought against them versus in open court.

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Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?

Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?

Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

How about “You don’t have write a bestselling book at any age for your life to have value”?