Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (02 Oct 2024)

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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
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Pluralistic: Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust (25 Sep 2024)

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Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well.
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Pluralistic: What the fuck is a PBM? (23 Sep 2024)

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What the fuck is a PBM? Matt Stoller's got you covered (but your health insurer doesn't).
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Pluralistic: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy (20 Sep 2024)

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Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy: The FTC shows that privacy is a competition issue.
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Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024)

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Thinking the unthinkable: At a certain point, we have to admit that the correct amount of radium in your suppository is zero.
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Pluralistic: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (16 Aug 2024)

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MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier: $2 million here, $2 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
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Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024)

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The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: "People like relevant ads" is a lie, and "attribution" is an abomination.
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Pluralistic: Rsync corrump linkdump (03 Aug 2024)

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Rsync corrump linkdump: A roundup of stray but worthy links.
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Pluralistic: Richard R John's "Network Nation" (18 Jul 2024)

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Richard R John's "Network Nation": The definitive history of the Bell System is a must-read for 21st century Big Tech trustbusters.
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Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)

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The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues.
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