#Monopolies

1/ On this note, I’d like to highlight “reactive decentralization systems” (RDS) - systems that allow checks and balances. RDS can help us reach the mainstream quicker.“Proactive decentralization systems” (PDS)
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Today was my reading day so I don’t do much ‘active’ OSS contribution work on Friday but I did get a request for access to one of design files in
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Hot take: Twitter banning Donald Trump is good and is in keeping with past media practice in American history. Yes, I'm aware of the dangers of large monopolies dictating what
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Private insurance is very good at effectively pricing risk. Bad drivers should pay more for car insurance, and homes should be priced out of being built in areas with pre-existing
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Big news yesterday of @wileyinresearch acquiring @hindawi. Reflecting on Paul Peters’ 2017 developing #openinfra + the role of commercial publishers, a number of questions arise about the terms of the
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Despite the massive triumphs of the world's largest corporations and most rapacious billionaires during the covid crisis, neoliberalism is in ideological retreat: more people are more critical of the idea
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When will it end? This is a frequent question, and thankfully the answer is extremely simple: asset prices won't fall. Whatever drops we see, such as March, will be shortly
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What regressive "marketplace of ideas/freeze speech!" dumbasses like ContraPoints and Greenwald don't get is that when it comes to deplatforming & the information war, antifascists are in a four-way fight
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When I was a lad tip-toeing onto Usenet in 1992, we all thought the Internet was going to empower unfettered free speech, without the "gatekeepers" of traditional corporate media.All we
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The centralized power over US democracy (and other democracies) concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of unaccountable Silicon Valley oligarchs is stunning, unprecedented and unsustainable.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/ho
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This is the most personal thing I’ve ever written. A lot of you won’t share my pessimism. That’s fine. I, too, swing between blinding hope and crushing despair. But how
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A great piece, though this should not come as a surprise. India is EXTREMELY overpopulated, and this poor decision making by the prev generations is going to punish the current
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I hate to use “unprecedented times” in a tweet but here we are. Reddit, who regularly hosts vile, hateful content, and for years has been a breeding ground for white
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1/ In September 1993, then-Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold wrote his landmark memo "Road Kill on the Information Highway", laying out a dozen-ish predictions on the rise of the internet27 years
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Why do big companies have such a tough time doing emerging technology right? I think there are five reasons. (A Thread, of course): 1. You cannot force a market to
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#COVID1984 [THREAD]I'm going to get banned for this.... (MAYBE) (AGAIN)It was planned and all the evidence clearly supports that inference. (1) Especially given all the lies in media and ridiculous
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