Yorgos SaslisHmmm so I just went back to check to make sure…
For example, “the Bezzle” only shows up under the “download my books” section and it wasn’t clear to me that there was an audiobook available for the #Bezzle yet.
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.
ildiavolorosso
Den of Earth@GeofCox @RustyBertrand @sciencefiction @bookstodon
The above post needs a #bezzle tag and maybe ping @pluralistic
Kara Finance
Cory Doctorow#10yrsago #Elsevier censors self-publication by papers’ co-authors https://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/
#5yrsago #Uber is a “#bezzle,” doomed to disappoint the suckers who buy into its IPO https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/will-uber-survive-the-next-decade.html
#5yrsago Argentine hacker mods #Furby so it quotes #Borges, creates a “Borgy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlDL-j9upg
#5yrsago Merry Mixmas! It’s time again for DJ Riko’s badass Christmas mashup http://djriko.com/mixmases.htm
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David O'Brien#Chrome is basically an advertising #bezzle
Do yourself a favour, and use a browser that's not basically a vehicle for the world's biggest advertising platform to harvest and sell your browsing history.
Don't alter your settings. Just bin that trash.
Use Firefox, Arc, Safari, Edge. Not Brave, because Eich's a twonk.
PKMKII“Indeed, most studies show that mergers result in higher prices, lower economic performance, and less research and development. Yet conservative economists perpetuate the myth of consistently beneficial mergers.” #bezzle #BadEconomics #oligarchy https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-mythology-of-horizontal-merger-efficiencies
When it comes to the modern world of #enshittified, terrible businesses, no addition to your vocabulary is more essential than "#bezzle," #JKGalbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/09/accounting-gimmicks/#unter
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#Bezzle (n):
1. "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it" (#JKGabraith)
2. #Uber
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