Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to let you change banks with a click.

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Cory Doctorow

2024-11-01 13:42:58

"Switching costs" are one of the great underappreciated evils in our world: the more it costs you to change from one product or service to another, the worse the vendor, provider, or service you're using today can treat you without risking your business.

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Hey look at this

* Uncovered: Big Tech’s network sabotaging the DMA corporateeurope.org/en/2024/10…

* Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/cour…

* A complete guide to luddite horror films bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-comp…

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#20yrsago Bhutan: World’s biggest book kottke.org/04/10/bhutan-book

#20yrsago Audio/transcript from BBC Creative Archive talk web.archive.org/web/2006030615…

#15yrsago Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim…

#15yrsago Scenting the Dark: outstanding debut short story collection from Mary Robinette Kowal, exploring our relationship to technology and each other memex.craphound.com/2009/11/01…

#15yrsago Anti-vaccine fear versus science web.archive.org/web/2009102223…

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#10yrsago Sen Lindsay Graham promises a fine future for “white men in male-only clubs” politico.com/story/2014/10/sen…

#10yrsago Hungary cancels proposed Internet tax in the face of mass opposition bbc.com/news/world-europe-2984…

#10yrsago David Graeber and Thomas Piketty on whether capitalism will destroy itself thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/s…

#10yrsago USPS usage declines, but sloppy postal surveillance is way, way up politico.com/story/2014/06/sna…

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#10yrsago Surveillance and stalkers: how the Internet supercharges gendered violence forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/20…

#10yrsago Secret recording of corporate lobbyist is a dirty-tricks playbook nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/poli…

#10yrsago NZ Trade Minister: we keep TPP a secret to prevent “public debate” techdirt.com/2014/10/31/new-ze…

#5yrsago Blizzard’s corporate president publicly apologizes for bungling players’ Hong Kong protests, never mentions Hong Kong theverge.com/2019/11/1/2094402…

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#5yrsago My review of Sandworm: an essential guide to the new, reckless world of “cyberwarfare” latimes.com/entertainment-arts…

#5yrsago Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science “emotion recognition” rules twitter.com/suelinwong/status/…

#5yrsago Toronto approves Google’s surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sid…

#5yrsago Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike usatoday.com/story/news/nation…

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#5yrsago Airbnb’s easily gamed reputation system and poor customer service allow scammers to thrive vice.com/en/article/nationwide…

#5yrsago Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File propublica.org/article/the-irs…

#5yrsago Massive spike in young people registering to vote in the UK memex.craphound.com/2019/11/01…

#5yrsago How the British left should seize this moment to strip finance of its political clout opendemocracy.net/en/oureconom…

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#5yrsago After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with “moral whims” nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/1…

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#5yrsago Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy theglobeandmail.com/business/a…

#1yrago The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/car…

#1yrsago Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict pluralistic.net/2023/11/01/int…

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Wednesday's threads: AI's "human in the loop" isn't; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-10-30 13:00:43

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI's "human in the loop" isn't; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-n…

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* ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet (Los Angeles), Dec 9
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* IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
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