Support for Gig Worker Union Bill in New York Collapsing After Scrutiny
A tech industry Trojan horse masquerading as a pro-union measure has been caught out.
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Jared Holst: Getting Kinky for the Sake of Data
Apple is now promising to give users more control over who gets their data. But will they make it more seductive to give it away?
Read more...The Corporate Food Takeover
Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
Read more...The Ugly Truth About Renewable Power
Questions about how to make intermittent renewable energy production work for users conditioned to always-here power.
Read more...Privacy Champions Urge Passage of ‘Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale’ Act
Anti-Big-Tech sentiment has hit the point where it’s not crazy to hope for some recovery of digital privacy.
Read more...The Case for WikiSearch, a Wikipedia Search Engine
The Wikipedia search project has been deceitful, duplicitous, and downright dumb. But Google needs a competitor. Maybe it’s not a bad option.
Read more...UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?
Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth
Read more...Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech
Contrary to its image as a cash-strapped, open public service, Wikipedia tries to hide that it is a wealthy NGO with close ties to big tech.
Read more...Sick Unicorns: America’s Broken Start-Up System
Unicorn startups are even more unprofitable than those that did not achieve unicorn status.
Read more...Patent System Often Stifles the Innovation It Was Designed to Encourage
Why the US patent regime is broken and what could be done to fix it.
Read more...The Free Press versus Facebook and Google
Are Facebook and Google the new ‘public square’? Or are they publishers swiping content from others?
Read more...Why Would Anyone Buy Crypto Art – Let Alone Spend Millions on What’s Essentially a Link to a JPEG File?
Trying to make sense of crypto art.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Signs Are Everywhere: Businesses Have Changed Permanently as a Result of the Pandemic
The pandemic has caused many shifts in how businesses operate: permanent and many are positives and should have happened a long time ago.
Read more...Facebook and Google vs the Free Press
The effort to contain Google and Facebook were only in the skirmish stage until Australia and Maryland upped the ante with their tax powers.
Read more...Since Google Suppressed My Post on the CDC, School Reopening, and Aerosols, I’m Re-Posting It
Google spills its secret sauce
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