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"The growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy is fueled by the crude oil of the monopolist, with Google bankrolling its other enterprises with its search monopoly, Meta with its advertising monopoly, Amazon its its ecommerce (and now logistics and labor) monopoly, and Microsoft, to a much lesser extent, with its dominance of the desktop productivity software market"
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Monopoly Money

Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened.
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

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tomgrzybow
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We should treat "AI" as we would treat any alien being landing on this planet - with an element of distrust.
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At the end of this lengthy post is some interesting history on #Microsoft and its history of anti-competition practices. This was in my early days of computer use, but even I remember Wordperfect was so much better than Word. Still miss it!
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