Capitalism
But this Google trial? By far the most important moment was when Judge Mehta denied a third-party motion to broadcast a publicly accessible audio feed of the trial for fear that information Google wishes wouldn’t be disclosed become public. Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public... See more
Matt Stoller • How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial

Katherine Boyle on American Dynamism
As a society, we are so fully invested in capitalism, competition and algorithms that it’s almost impossible to pull ourselves out of the cycle to see a bigger pattern, which is that we have entire economies built upon our misery.
The enshittification of dating apps
Luxury surveillance is a phenomenon where "some people pay to subject themselves to surveillance that others are forced to endure and would, if anything, pay to be free of." You might buy a GPS bracelet to track your biometric data (which will be used by other firms), while others might be forced to wear one (and still pay for it) as part of their... See more
Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies
Most analysts of capitalism, following nineteenth- and twentieth-century leads, have ignored the formation of “raw” materials, taking them for granted as capitalist resources. Yet these materials have their own genealogies of production outside the capitalist purview, and our recent awareness that capitalism is destroying Earth’s livability makes... See more
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing • Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist…
How ‘Your Package Has Been Delivered’ and other Automated Messages Erase Essential Human Labor ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairscurrentaffairs.orgHard Work is Only Sometimes Necessary and Never Sufficient, But What Else Can You Do?
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