Pluralistic: 18 Oct 2022 Being good at your job is praxis

Today's links

Being good at your job is praxis: The FTC can mandate Right to Repair without (further) Congressional authorization.
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A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof: The Kroger-Albertson's merger will trigger massive price-hikes.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Since late 2000, EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has made steady progress, and now, despite US Big Tech companies’ illegal lobbying, it has become a law.

RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor: Sorely missed already.
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How lawyers became sadists: What about the incentive not to be perceived as a colossal asshole?
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Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic: Trademark, like all "IP," is a tool to control critics, customers and competitors.
Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats: Even the best Democratic candidate is no match for the worst Republican when wealthy "Democratic" donors meddle.
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This day in history: 2007, 2012.
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US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care: Medicare Advantage will murder your grandparents – and you're next.
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Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it.
Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners.
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Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness: SCOTUS is entitled to its own (judicial) opinions, but not its own facts.
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$100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla.
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.
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