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Pluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5000-bats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p87#a240228p87

An insightful essay. Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis (25 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it
Amazon is very proud of its "flywheel":
at first, the company offered subsidies to customers,
which lured in sellers.
Then, it demanded that those sellers lower their prices,
which lured in more customers.
With more customers, more sellers piled in.
Faster and faster, the flywheel spins, creating the "everything store":
The flywheel is everywhe…

Voting with Partial Orders: The Plurality and Anti-Plurality Classes
Federico Fioravanti, Ulle Endriss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17413 https://

Voting with Partial Orders: The Plurality and Anti-Plurality Classes
The Plurality rule for linear orders selects the alternatives most frequently appearing in the first position of those orders, while the Anti-Plurality rule selects the alternatives least often occurring in the final position. We explore extensions of these rules to partial orders, offering axiomatic characterizations for these extensions.

Dear god, they have at last figured the formula out with the success of mashups like #Palworld, #Helldivers2, and, most likely, #Kingmakers: Don't worry and copy sham…

A nice talk by my ex-colleagues Eve Martin-Jones and Josie Anugerah about the misperceptions many have about dependency resolution. It's not nearly as simple a problem as the tool builders would have you believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-niBbN-ufY<…

The real problem with anonymity (04 Mar 2024) by @…
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/04/greater-corporate-fuckward-theory/

Tech bros having been historically insulated by understanding and protecting themselves against the unaddressed issues before them.
From: @…
https://mastodon.soci…

I think it’s more important than ever that we fund a plurality of implementations of the “twitter-like” Fediverse.
I have a nagging suspicion that Mastodon will fall victim to the embrace, extend, extinguish action of some major corporation or VC money rather soon. It is clearly the most valuable platform with the greatest number of users today, and has obvious points of failure (Eugen’s corporation being the primary one). The best defense is to have multiple strong, popular implementa…

A nice talk by my ex-colleagues Eve Martin-Jones and Josie Anugerah about the misperceptions many have about dependency resolution. It's not nearly as simple a problem as the tool builders would have you believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-niBbN-ufY<…