Jason Perseus
Jason Perseus  ·  2 months ago
Nothing could be more of an example of why monopolies suck than Google search.

Went from great to shitty in a few years as they ruined it for various forms of incidental revenue.

Now we have no good alternatives because they dominated the market.

(I know there is DuckDuckGo, but it has never been as good as Google. Closer now but that, imo, is because Google is trash now.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/googles-ai-deals-could-hurt-its-search-monopoly-appeal-expert-says/

#tech #uspol #politics #uspolitics #monopoly #doj

Julie Hughes
Julie Hughes  ·  2 months ago
#TheLincolnProject dropped a new ad this morning entitled "First Day of School" that focuses on Republicans voting for #KamalaHarris and encouraging others to do the same... "Because your kids are watching..." #election2024#HarrisWalz2024 #uspol #uspolitics#RepublicansForHarris#GOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxvvaOpiiHU

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 months ago
Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right." In other words, the world we're living in is the best possible world, and the fact that you got contact burns from collapsing on the scorching sidewalk outside of the grocery store where you couldn't afford your weekly shopping is unfortunate, but unavoidable.

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Marius Fortuna_3
Marius Fortuna_3  ·  3 months ago
@pluralistic

Establishment Economists explaining the Central Bank setting interest rates at 20%, causing massive unemployment, collapse in the housing market, widespread small business failures, and suicides among small business owners and unemployed;

"Well last months M1 and M2 Money Supply numbers combined with high employment were at levels econmists and Central Bankers consider potentially inflationary so they had to do it."

#USPolitics #cdnpoli #ukpolitics #capitalism #economics

petersuber
petersuber  ·  3 months ago
"JD #Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases #Trump"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/politics/jd-vance-trump-vp.html

The #NYTimes ( @nytimes) doesn't understand what "confounds" means. Dems are not confounded by Vance's rhetoric. They understand it but denounce, refute, and ridicule it.

By contrast. Trump and Vance are confounded by #Harris and #Walz. They're floundering for an effective line of attack.

#Journalism#USPolitics

Democrats Abroad
Democrats Abroad  ·  3 months ago
Join the Americans Abroad for #HarrisWalz#Zoom call on SEPT 5, NOON EASTERN!

Thousands of #DemocratsAbroad will be there to support #KamalaHarris. Will you?

Register at https://www.democratsabroad.org/americansabroad-for-harris-walz

And if you haven’t registered to #vote, please go to https://VoteFromAbroad.org to do so NOW!

#USPolitics#HarrisWalz2024 #voteblue #americansabroad

Democrats Abroad
Democrats Abroad  ·  3 months ago
Are you a #US citizen from #Arizona living abroad?

If you said YES, you should know that Ruben Gallego, running to keep #KariLake out of the US #Senate, NEEDS YOU TO JOIN HIM ON A ZOOM CALL next week!

Join the Americans Abroad for #HarrisWalz call SEPT 5, NOON EASTERN.

Ruben will be there to support #KamalaHarris. Will you?

Register at https://www.democratsabroad.org/americansabroad-for-harris-walz

And if you haven’t registered to #vote, please go to https://VoteFromAbroad.org to do so NOW!

#USPolitics#HarrisWalz2024#AZ

Newsmast
Newsmast  ·  3 months ago
We’re very proud to announce that we’ve worked with @tchambers & team to build a new membership-only group on the Fediverse!

@KamalaHarrisWin is a group dedicated to organising and discussing Harris’s 2024 campaign. With better moderation controls the people there can focus on what matters, like protecting democracy, rather than having to fight through trolls and bots.

We hope the members are enjoying it! 🥥🌴

#USPolitics#Harris#Harris2024#Fediverse