Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2021

Today's links

Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies.
Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.
Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news: Orwell was an optimist.
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India's 'toxic' ed-tech giant: How Byju's hard-sells desperate parents into taking out predatory loans for their kids' education.
Podcasting "Utilities and Empires" and "FB's War on Switching Costs": A twofer from EFF's Deeplinks blog, on this week's podcast.
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The "work ethic" is a dirty trick we play on ourselves: Rationalizing away the pointlessness and indignity of low-waged work.
Facebook's war on switching costs: Network effects attract users, switching costs take them hostage.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2020.
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Scammers sell griefers social media banning services: And charge their victims 100x more to get un-banned.
Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke: Especially compared with the independent Ad Obervatory, which the company wants to destroy.
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Facebook's alternative facts: If you don't like your transparency portal's data, shut it down.
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Facebook employees stalk users: Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.
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Podcasting "The Memex Method": Reading my inaugural Medium column for my podcast.
Watomatic, for lower Whatsapp switching costs: Comcom in action.
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The G(AN)-8: Shardcore's questing AI tries to locate world leaders in a sprawling data-set.
Facebook's tonsils: The traumatic lives of Facebook's moderators.
Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part three.
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Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop.
$100m deli made $35k in 2019/20: What the fuck is going on with Your Hometown Deli?
"Anti-voter-suppression" companies are lobbying to kill HR1: Keep your eyes on the prize.
People's Choice Communications: An ISP owned by striking Charter works that diverts profits to its customers.
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How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.
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