Pluralistic: End to End (07 Mar 2023)

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End to End: Willing speakers should reach willing listeners.
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Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022

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How monopoly enshittified Amazon: Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything.
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Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2022 Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy

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Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Pluralistic: 07 Nov 2022 The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers

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The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news.
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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: 01 Aug 2022

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Podcasting "View A SKU": A plan to turn Amazon into a dumb pipe.
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Pluralistic: Why none of my books are available on Audible; Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home" (25 Jul 2022)

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Why none of my books are available on Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home": A haunted house novel that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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View a SKU

Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe

Amazon

Downtrodden peasant: We should improve society somewhat.

Mr Gotcha: Yet you participate in society, curious! I am very intelligent. -Matt Bors, The Nib

I like supporting local retail for shopping whenever possible. But I will not shame people for buying from Amazon the magic markers they use to write “Break up Bezos’ power” on a big poster they parade outside their state attorney general’s office. -Zephyr Teachout, Break ’Em Up

Here’s a dirty secret of the antitrust movement: Amazon is very convenient!

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Pluralistic: 02 May 2022

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Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs": The relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power.
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Pluralistic: 27 Apr 2022

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How police backdoors for online services let sextortionists target children: There is no such thing as a back-door that only lets the good guys through.
Laura Jean McKay's "The Animals in That Country": A brilliant debut novel of too much understanding.
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