#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.

Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."

#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices

saw an article suggesting some billionare was successful bc they reduced their decisions with routines thru the day.

like. good for anyone who does that basic popsy selfhelp thing, but like.

pretty sure it's the crazy rampant #wagetheft and violent minerals extraction campeigns, and #monopolization, and being born on the pile of money, andweapons contracts lolol. that's accpunting for the success.

also getting a uniform outfit is not super doable on thrift. No one gets rid of a comfortable solid neutral tanktop.

ummm also ya get routines, but donlt get used to compliance lolol #decideyourmedia #decideyourhealthcare #decideyourrepresentation
#takealittlebreakhavealittlesnack

#ohhiclasswar
#grifterdoesn'tloveyou #pigbutchertheusa
#dontbelieveeverythingyouskim

@psoutham @Lazarou nodds in agreement…

We need an "anti-#Thiel" strategy (anti-#monopolization) strategy that empowers #OpenSource, #OpenStandards and only accepts #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider solutions that are #FLOSS as well as #SelfHosting capable (both in terms of "reproduceable builds" & auditable code as well as "you can set it ou yourself" & no bullshit setup)…

• Because monopolization & #enshittification with #CCSS-#SaaS + #subscriptions is just bad and inherently #AntiUser and #AntiConsumer!

Instead #incentives must be set in terms of i.e. #EU-wide public funds for #DigitalInfrastructure that #rewards FLOSS creation and enshures the #maintenance of said projects.

• And if that means they gotta pay thousands or even a million people #FullTimeEquivalent #MinimumWage as per their #juristiction then so be it!