25 Sep 2022 McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution

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McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution: "How would you like to pay that today?"
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Pluralistic: 24 Sep 2022 Billionare grifters hate her

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Billionaire grifters hate her: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ida M Tarbell.
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2022 Twitch's Chokepoint Capitalism

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Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism: "Amazon is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers."
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Pluralistic: 20 Sep 2022 Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority

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Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority: The moral majority is neither.
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Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.
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Pluralistic: 16 Sep 2022 Moneylike

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Moneylike: My Locus Magazine column about what makes money money.
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Pluralistic: 15 Sep 2022 California's antitrust case against Amazon

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California's antitrust case against Amazon: Amazon's monopoly is so noisy, it even managed to wake antitrust's King Log.
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Pluralistic: 14 Sep 2022 The Chokepoint Capitalism tour!

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The Chokepoint Capitalism tour: Ottawa, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles (and beyond!)
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Pluralistic: 13 Sep 2022 Survival of the Richest

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Survival of the Richest: Douglas Rushkoff on the eschatology of libertarian exit.
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Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2022 Spotify is a ripoff, a Spotify exclusive

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Spotify steals from artists, a Spotify exclusive: More Chokepoint Capitalism stunt-publishing.
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