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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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pluralistic , to Random stuff
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Hey, @mozilla I'm really proud to be a paid Media Monitor subscriber, and I'm happy with the service, too.

But why do your emails pass their links through a tracking redirection service controlled by a third party?

My May statement links through https://blrv1ly5.r.us-west-2.awstrack.me/

?!

dphiffer ,
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@pluralistic @mozilla I’m not from Mozilla and can’t speak to their product choices, but at @themarkup we’ve had to work hard to find a service (Email Octopus) that lets us turn off tracking. See also: https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/hello-from-the-markup

The service providers have an incentive to protect their deliverability reputation from bad actors who might turn off tracking to avoid detection. So the tracking is about monitoring the email sender. I would say smaller service providers are better positioned on this one.

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>Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

A good overview by @pluralistic on Red Lobster's 💋 💀 once private equity vultures swooped in.

On a side note, another example of "bust out" can also be seen in the film "Goodfellas."

ferricoxide ,

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Toys R Us, but for really shitty seafood.

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Cory Doctorow on Red Lobster is an instant click from me https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/ @pluralistic

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/

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An old Red Lobster ad, showing a fisherman on a pier amid a bounteous catch, standing under an old fashioned . He grins and brandishes a large lobster at a grinning family. The image has been modified to add four symbols of rapacious capitalism. There is a dancing Monopoly Rich Uncle Pennybags with a skull-like face, his cane replaced by a scythe. There is a stern, impatient, grey-haired business-man looming over a rooftop, staring at his watch impatiently. There is a portly, shouting man in a suit and tophat, lugging a money-bag. There is a man in a suit with a money-bag for a head.
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    • WillA763 ,
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    @pluralistic The last two CEOs of that company belong in prison.

    pluralistic , to Random stuff
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    A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

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    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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    CptSuperlative ,
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    @pluralistic

    I want liberals and progressives to stop blaming capitalism when it's actually rampant corruption, regulatory capture, monopolies, duopolies, legal organized crime, and straight up feudalism that they're referring to.

    It probably won't happen because using the word "capitalism" is easier and it conflates what small businesses do with what legal organized crime bosses do - which is exactly what legal organized crime bosses want us to do.

    Because it white-washes them and casts progressives and liberals as radical lunatics. Which is a mantle that can be fun to wear but has the dangerous side effect of making us less effective at public persuasion.

    So we go around complaining about "capitalism" and think we're being edgy and original when we're actually playing our role in their con.

    So thank you for laying out the details of these legal organized crime bosses' cons so clearly.

    durrandon ,
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    @pluralistic

    "These places are easy pickings for looters because the people who patronize them have little power in our society – and because those of us with more power are easily tricked into sneering at these places' failures as a kind of comeuppance that's all that's due to tacky joints that serve the working class."

    Kind of feeling seen here.

    gamingonlinux , to Random stuff
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    Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.

    Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj

    celeduc , to Random stuff
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    US politicians, the courts, the media, and even unions are lining up to knuckle under to another stolen election like 2000. But preparing for a general strike is a way to counteract this seeming near-certainty, to prepare for the worst, and most importantly to change the narrative of helplessness. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-will-you-do-if-the-election (via @pluralistic)

    jeffcliff , to Random stuff
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    I should dig up my post on phantom memory, which is, ironically, not online anywhere.

    @pluralistic
    > @raaleh often reminds us, the left is the ideology of object permanence - to be a leftist is to hate and mistrust the CIA even when they're tormenting Trump for a brief instant.
    > Or to remember that it was once possible for a working person to support their family with their wages:
    https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
    > The thing is, object permanence is hard. Life comes at you quickly. It's very hard to remember facts, and the order in which those facts arrived - it's even harder to remember how you felt about those facts in the moment.
    ...
    > @internetarchive which ]
    https://x.com/doctorow/status/1792962823406100684

    nancycomics , to Random stuff
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    Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 22,1967

    anarchodelphis , to Random stuff
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    Imagine being this scared by students being based. Scared enough, indeed, to turn on your bread and butter of aerosol science, in the middle of an ongoing pandemic and on the cusp of the next, probably airborne, one.

    sashin , to Random stuff Japanese
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    This @pluralistic piece on Finfluencers and the housing crisis is great https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

    The phrase "the grifter class" is hilarious

    pluralistic , to Random stuff
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    Today's threads (a thread)

    Inside: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

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    tomasino ,
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    @pluralistic fabulous! i loved it so much. Now i can share it with more people

    Plumbert ,
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    @pluralistic Same price at non-Amazon ebook seller Kobo https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

    mathewi , to Random stuff
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    Leonhard Euler was an intellectual giant of the 1700s https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2024/05/22/leonhard-euler-was-an-intellectual-giant-of-the-1700s/

    ernie , to Random stuff
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    It’s alive. https://udm14.com

    Jeffool ,
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    @ernie Also, (obviously) seems worth tagging @pluralistic in!

    ernie OP ,
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    @pluralistic @peterfr disenshittified

    0xabad1dea , to Random stuff
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    Bob Varney Who Posts On Archive Dot Org, I don't know who you are but there's a nontrivial chance you're on mastodon so let me just say, man: every recording of old vinyls is full of crackle except yours. yours are perfect. idk what you're doing different but it's very helpful

    aral , to Random stuff
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    “We cannot apply international law only when it’s convenient.”

    – Senator Bernie Sanders, US Senate.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDoCaYSwVw

    raganwald ,
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    @aral @pluralistic
    What if Wilhoit’s definition of conservatism applies to international law?

    “There are in-countries that international law protects, but does not bind, alongside out-countries that international law binds, but does not protect.”

    If that were the case, in-countries would absolutely only apply international law when convenient for them.

    Miriamm , to Random stuff
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    This morning Ireland officially recognised Palestine as an independent state. Our history of struggle and oppression has taught us the value of freedom and justice, and we always stand unwaveringly with the oppressed. I’m very proud to be Irish today
    🇮🇪🇵🇸✊🏾 https://news.sky.com/story/ireland-and-norway-recognise-palestine-as-independent-state-13141083

    ai6yr , to Random stuff
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    👀 https://lapublicpress.org/2024/05/lasd-deputy-arrested-for-allegedly-smuggling-drugs-into-county-jail/

    Viss ,
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    @ai6yr straight out of the @pluralistic book :D

    pluralistic , to Random stuff
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    Today's threads (a thread)

    Inside: How to screw up a whistleblower law; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

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    atomless ,
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    This is great from @pluralistic on whistleblower law - https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

    It reminded me of this other excellent piece that explains that sadly we always seem, psychologically at least, to shoot the messenger : https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

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