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Google workers have announced their intention to form a union, under the auspices of @CWAUnion Local 1440. The union is called @AlphabetWorkers (Google maintains the legal and accounting fiction that it is a division of a holding company called "Alphabet").
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More from Cory Doctorow #BLM
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We remember this as an election that the plutes stole, but it's also an election that the Dems gave to them. That's why we're talk about it now. There will be an attempt to steal next month's election. Will we surrender again?
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The last surrender led to a war being fought today by the children of the soldiers who were sent into battle on day one. It led to climate inaction, monopolistic concentration, erosions to our right to vote and to our right to protest.
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Thanks to that surrender, voter suppression was expanded and reinforced, leading to the election of a fumbling liar who got to appoint more SCOTUS judges in 3.5 years than all Democratic presidents did in the previous quarter
If Amy Barrett is confirmed, Donald Trump alone will have appointed the same number of SCOTUS judges in 3-and-a-half years as Democratic presidents have appointed in the last 26 years.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 13, 2020
So please -- stop being afraid to talk about court expansion. https://t.co/dZU97YhFWg
You may be wondering how the Dems surrendered in 2020. For a detailed account of what surrender looks like, read @rsgexp's @jacobin memoir of her time as an @AFLCIO organizer sent to Florida during the

Happy Birthday to the queen of the scream queens, Barbara Steele! https://t.co/qnhQvROGVa

Happy Birthday to the queen of the scream queens, Barbara Steele! https://t.co/qnhQvROGVa

Happy Birthday to the queen of the scream queens, Barbara Steele! https://t.co/qnhQvROGVa

Happy Birthday to the queen of the scream queens, Barbara Steele! https://t.co/qnhQvROGVa


It comes from David "DSHR" Rosenthal, a distinguished technologist whose past achievements including helping to develop X11 and the core technologies for Nvidia.
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Rosenthal's critique is a transcript of a lecture he gave to Stanford's EE380 class, adapted from a December 2021 talk for an investor conference. 3/
It is a bang-up-to-date synthesis of many of the critical writings on the subject, glued together with Rosenthal's own deep technical expertise. He calls it "Can We Mitigate Cryptocurrencies' Externalities?"
The presence of "externalities" in Rosenthal's title is key. 4/
Rosenthal identifies blockchainism's core ideology as emerging from "the libertarian culture of Silicon Valley and the cypherpunks," and states that "libertarianism's attraction is based on ignoring externalities."
This is an important critique of libertarianism. 5/
Inside: Criti-Hype; Right to Repair is back for 2021; The free market and rent-seeking; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/pXnzoWKJn2
#Pluralistic
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Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."
https://t.co/OyiM1vUS8Y
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There's a Yom Kippur joke I love: the rabbi and the richest man in town are praying, "Oh Lord, I am nothing, I am nothing!"
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
The synagogue's janitor sees them and joins in: "I am nothing!"
The richest man says to the rabbi: "Look who thinks he's nothing."
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Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?
https://t.co/3gcyEZQWfk
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2018 was almost the year we won the #RightToRepair.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
Instead, 2018 turned out to be the year we lost #R2R: 20 bills defeated in 20 state houses, and it was mostly @apple's fault.
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The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.
https://t.co/7Ob6AdmkDz
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When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning!
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
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#10yrsago Diane Duane’s crowdfunded publishing experiment finally concludes https://t.co/qsRnZxiL8b
#10yrsago Inside Sukey, the anti-kettling mobile app https://t.co/puGNKw5XgF
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