“America’s 1,135 billionaires make up 0.000003% of the country’s population. Collectively, they own $5.7 trillion, about 4% of the nation’s wealth.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/all-the-th...
All the Things That You Need a Billion Dollars to Buy Are Bad
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(Oops. The stat isn't quite right. It's 0.000003 of the country's population, or 0.0003%. Still makes the same point.)
so, basically we’re rebooting the “anti-terrorist” Middle East drone assassination program as an “anti-drug-trafficking” extralegal execution program in Latin America and the Caribbean?
sure! @michaelpettis.bsky.social has also proposed capital taxes to address imbalances.
“As new technologies emerged, Alphabet and its peers bought and swallowed them, in much the same way the Greek god Kronos ate his children to prevent their emergence as rivals.” @bcappelbaum.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
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“The moral of the story is: Never trust an A.I. system… Never trust a chatbot, because it’s a puppet whose strings are being pulled behind the scenes.”
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does this mean that i'm a blueskyist?
hits different right now.
Screenshot of e-mail from Donald John Trump, subject "I want to try and get to heaven."
"It’s amazing how many Americans put more than their best foot forward when they are trying to convince a bank to back their mortgage."
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and sandwiches are tastier.
he’s accessible on Mastodon! @pluralistic@mamot.fr there.
i don’t know that you can trust Apple to be very principled about this distinction. They let Netflix and Spotify get away with circumventing, and planned for a while to treat subscriptions for physical services like digital goods. x.com/techemails/s... 1/
as far as i can tell they are not charging the 30% to rideshare services for individual rides, although i haven’t been able to find details about eg if you pay for Bolt in Europe via Apple Pay. you might ask Cory Doctorow though, i suspect there’s a particular case behind his claim. /fin
I’ve used Bolt a fair amount in Europe. But it does usually price higher than Uber in the same market. I don’t know whether other ride share apps get exempted. Cory Doctorow pretty strongly implies not, which, if accurate, would be pretty terrible.
i have an idea. why don't we let him debate?
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i'm looking forward to our check!
"the fact that Apple/Google exempt Uber and Lyft from the 30% app tax means that they – and they alone – can provide competitive ride-hailing services." ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/f...
You're kind!
“As always, the hardest part of this project, as with any project, was understanding the data model and the business logic, and parsing out those objects correctly. The second-hardest was aligning elements in CSS.” @vickiboykis.com is a wonderful tech writer. vickiboykis.com/2025/01/23/y...
that it's September and i still haven't done so many things i haven't done feels like a terrible failure.
“Being Donald Trump” what a fascinating film.
you know they genuinely care if they ask about your use cases.