Pluralistic: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity (28 Jun 2025)

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Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity: Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops.
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Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth: From each according his ability (to pay).
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Private-sector Trumpism: Monopoly, facial recognition and property rights all add up to a private system of government.
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Eggflation is excuseflation: We don’t have egg companies in the business of making eggs anymore, we have egg companies in the business of exploiting egg shortages.
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How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers: The Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts is a hell of a henhouse fox.
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Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification: A crime thriller of pyramid schemes, faith scams, weird PCs, Reaganomics, punk rock, and San Francisco during the AIDS crisis (and Amazon won't sell it!).
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Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds.
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