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How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

"These allegations point to a novel form of monopoly power: the ability of a dominant platform to use algorithms to lift prices across an entire market. Amazon is doing so...by provoking and shaping the responses of rival algorithms, creating feedback loops that ratchet prices higher."

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

A vertical screen print style poster in red, yellow and black, featuring the quote by Dom Helder Camara: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." The edges of the poster show a packed village with small houses, and a road leading to skyscrapers in the far background. A red sun in the upper right shines its long yellow rays across the image.

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

Originally made as a screen print in 1990, we now offer this thought-provoking poster digitally printed on heavy cover stock.

Noah Davis

“Noah Davis” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (or whatever they’re calling it now—they’re the HBO Max of museums) is essential viewing. It’s also really troubling. My take here:

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"We are working to make things better for everyone, on small scales and large."

"Yeah, but will people who don't 'look like NYC' like that?"

"Uh, yeah. Why the fuck wouldn't they? You idiot. You gigantic fucking moron."

I am glad that someone more eloquent and charming than I am is in this role.

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”

America’s Mayor can’t miss.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

WA Democrats ended a tax break for data centers but they're still woefully behind this curve, they killed a bill designed to regulate data centers last month thanks to big tech lobbyists from MSFT & AMZ

I just did this now.

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It's astonishing how wedded people are to the idea that refusing to name what's happening is how we overcome it.

Rich people (and their shell companies) buy second & third homes as ‘alternative investments’, a way to park excess money.
They do this in our city too.

We should tax that to fund the good stuff we need (Schools! Child care! Affordable housing!) and also to make it less appealing.

Want.

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will

- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%

- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...

- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined

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Hell yes.

theofficialdawsonmckie Dear America, I'm Canadian, and even from across the border I can tell your gentlest people are doing the heaviest lifting. They are feeding people, protecting people, defending people, comforting people, organizing people, and carrying a country that keeps calling their pain politics. If America has a soul left, it is living inside the people who refuse to stop caring. Your cruelest people may have the microphone right now, but your best people still have the moral weight.

We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).

You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

Despite court ruling, WA still blocked from inspecting immigrant detention center • Washington State Standard Washington health inspectors have been trying for months to enter the Tacoma immigrant detention center amid concerns about the conditions.

Washington state health inspectors have been trying for months to enter the Tacoma immigrant detention center amid longstanding concerns about the conditions there. They've made nine unsuccessful attempts to inspect the site. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/despi...

I cannot keep track with how many notifications I'm getting from all over Beirut and south Lebanon right now of the places that Israel is obliterating. There are multiple reports of multiple massacres in the past hour alone.

Bir Hassan - Al Rahab - Hay Al Salam - Al Manara - Ain Al Mraiseh - Corniche Al Mazraa - Msaytbeh - Al Basta - Choueifat - Aramoun (Al Bayadir) - Kayfoun - Ain Al Tineh - Bchamoun Al Madares Bint Jbeil - Kafr Seer - Al Kufour - Harouf - Jbaa - Ain Qana - Zbdine - Al Sharqieh - Al Dawir - Kafr Jouz - Kafr Roman - Jbsheet - Haboush - Jbaa - Al Qusaybeh - Sir Al Gharbiyeh - Haret Saida - Al Sarfand - Deir Al Zahrani - Tyre - Khirbet Selem - Ansar - Al Sharqieh - Zefta - Saida - Houmine Al Tahta - Jwaya - Bisariyeh - Ansar - Deir Qanoun Al Nahr | Dours - Shamsatar - Al Hermel - Al Karak - Sahl Taria Now ( all of these so far, probably not the full list Now

List of the places that Israel has bombed in Lebanon in the past hours alone. List is likely not full

One more homicide solved in 2024 than in 2025. Frankly, Mayor Wilson should know better than to reference this as proof of the success of the cameras.

the pro/con debate usually goes something like this

I don’t get why ppl fall for the “this will help reduce police staff time” line ever. As if it really means we’d reduce our police budget. When has giving police more tech to do their jobs “better” or “faster” ever led to a decrease in police funding or desire for less police? If anything, ppl will

Just because he backed off shouldn’t stop efforts to remove him. He is dangerous and cannot be left in power.

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)

I’m not defending all his characterizations in this piece, but the author is arguing for a useful, just, and potentially very progressive tool that reflects our values. I am 100% here for that!