Eggflation is excuseflation: We don’t have egg companies in the business of making eggs anymore, we have egg companies in the business of exploiting egg shortages.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-10 16:59:52

Inflation has many complex causes and dynamics, but this much should be obvious: when prices go up, and the *profits* go up, the price rise - the "inflation" is in part the result of greed - it's greedflation.

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Pluralistic: Eggflation is excuseflation (10 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next arstechnica.com/google/2025/03…

* Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers fortune.com/2025/03/07/steve-w… (h/t Hacker News)

* Muskism and McCarthyism nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

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#20yrsago Principles for the Internet in the age of terrorism dangillmor.typepad.com/dan_gil…

#20yrsago Game developers’ amazing rants on the state of the industry crystaltips.typepad.com/wonder…

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#15yrsago French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…

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#15yrsago London Olympics: police powers to force spectators to remove non-sponsor items, enter houses, take posters web.archive.org/web/2010030708…

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#10yrsago Wikimedia sues the NSA diff.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/…

#10yrsago Eutopia: horror novel about Lovecraftian racism memex.craphound.com/2015/03/10…
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Technology should be used to create social mobility – not to spy on citizens

NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance is more about disrupting political opposition than catching terrorists

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#10yrsago Senator on Internet privacy committee has never sent an email huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-gra…

#10yrsago UK foreign secretary: stop talking about Snowden, let spies get on with it web.archive.org/web/2015031503…

#10yrsago Piketty on the pointless cruelty of European austerity spiegel.de/international/europ…

#5yrsago Podcast: A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-s…

#5yrsago Postmortem: the catastrophic EU Copyright Directive pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-s…

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#5yrsago Scam-buster hacks into a scam-factory pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-s…

#5yrsago Italy's "I Stay in the House" law pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-s…

#5yrsago Twitter's new Terms of Service help academics pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-s…

#5yrsago Sensor Tower's VPNs and adblockers spied on users pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-s…

#5yrsago Thomas Piketty endorses Sanders pluralistic.net/2020/03/10/pik…

#5yrsago Detroit will reconnect water services during the Covid-19 emergency pluralistic.net/2020/03/10/pik…

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#5yrsago Safe and moral societies need "firewalls" between immigration and public services pluralistic.net/2020/03/10/pik…

#1yrago The Foilies pluralistic.net/2024/03/11/no-…

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Saturday's threads: Gandersauce; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-08 15:25:05

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Gandersauce; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/tur…

#Pluralistic

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Austin: Fediverse House, Mar 10
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* #Austin: Picks and Shovels at First Light Books, Mar 10
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* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
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* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
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* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
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* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
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* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* CBC Bookends
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* The Futurists
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* Make It Make Sense
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in AUSTIN TONIGHT (Mar 10) at FIRST LIGHT BOOKS:

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And this afternoon at SXSW Fediverse House:

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More tour dates here:

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