I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂
Best with volume up.

“Community of practice”, fair enough. also Big money, corruption, + use of IO to bamboozle.

www.nber.org/system/files...
"We find little evidence that academic ideas played an important role in the decline of antitrust enforcement except where they coincided with the interests of big business."

“Suppose someone invented an instrument, a convenient little talking tube which, say, could be heard over the whole land... I wonder if the police would not forbid it, fearing that the whole country would become mentally deranged if it were used.” — Kierkegaard 1843-1855
www.ft.com/content/5d06...

This is such a horror show.

Very useful parsing and skewering from @ianbrown.tech‬

Wow, I had forgotten I wrote that! Still valid, I think

Draghi has a lot to answer for. “Competitiveness” is a siren song that in practice means kowtowing to giant corporates.

Big Tech companies are using the Big Oil playbook: competing in some areas, but when it comes to pushing back against government rules — collaborating, co-ordinating.

Coded for privileged access | Corporate Europe Observatory The EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation of the AI Act. But Big Tech has heavily influenced the process to successfully weaken the Code.

The EU is set to finalise the rules that will govern advanced AI.

🧐 New research together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social reveals:

⚠️ Big Tech enjoys privileged access to drafting the Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI

⚠️ A glaring conflict of interest

👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04/c...

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Europeans' belief in the importance of the EU has surged to record levels, according to a survey released yesterday.

74% now say their country benefits from being in 🇪🇺 - up from 50% in 2010. And the biggest reason is about security, *not* the economy.
europa.eu/eurobaromete...

EU vs. US or People vs. Billionaires? Trump’s latest geopolitical moves are scary. But Americans and Europeans share a common foe.

In despair over the assertive authoritarianism and antagonistic autarky of Trump? This new international anti-monopoly movement, which is taking on global billionaires, oligarchs and Big Tech, could be for you.

@shaxson.bsky.social @thenation.com @balancedeconomy.bsky.social

you should see the comments underneath. i scrolled for ages, couldn't find a single one that wasn't railing against this drivel

The age-old story of Big Finance versus the people.
www.ft.com/content/3a37...

Why we should break up Google, German edition. Written pre-Trump, still just as relevant.

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