It's what we're doing 👀🚩 #monopoly #capitalism

November 30, 2025 at 02:40PM

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If we search and the cloud have taught us anything, we need to stop AI monopolies from forming. Yet, the pictures from the White House speak a different language.
#AI #monopoly
https://trendsresearch.org/insight/how-big-techs-monopoly-of-ai-threatens-fair-competition/

so much desire for "efficiency" in capitalism prioritizes standardization and consolidation while completely ignoring the negative effects of monocultures, i.e.:

• the internet is really 3 cloud providers in a trenchcoat
• whatsapp is a single messaging service with 3 billion phone numbers collected to get stolen
• there are only two kinds of smart phones, iphones and androids

even when focusing on reasons other than preventing monopolies, standardization is good when it comes to interoperability but consolidation is disastrous when it comes to goods, services and choice

this is why a bunch of random mom & pop bakeries are better than paneras or starbucks everywhere. maybe one of those bakeries are low quality... they'll get weeded out eventually. but if the dominant chain restaurant source their ingredients from the same place to save costs or reduce complexity, they're creating a monoculture where any disaster is amplified. this happened to chipotle with e.coli but chipotle was doing nothing different than any other anticompetitive monopoly-seeking capitalist greed machine company

this is not an inevitable outcome

laws allow for this kind of ugly cancer of monocultures of choice to form and laws can prevent this too

but no politician who has not declared unfettered capitalism as the enemy will ever pass a law like this because consumer choice is antithetical to the highest profits possible, the same way that you can pay young children a lot less, or nothing at all except threats of force, to mine your coal.

#aws #cloudfail #monopoly #capitalism

Crazy to think how much power sits with just a few players shaping how AI develops. It's getting so big and interconnected you can’t even tell where one company ends and another begins. #AI #BigTech #Oligopoly #Monopoly

There Is Only One AI Company. ...

Sie hätten es "Sailor Moon-opoly" nennen können… Schade um die vergebene Chance.

#SailorMoon #Monopoly #Wortspiel #Brettspiel

Der € wurde in #Deutschland am 01.01.2002 eingeführt. Der Umrechnungskurs zur #D-Mark betrug 1:1,95583. Auch das berühmte Brettspiel #Monopoly wurde umgestellt. Allerdings mit einem anderen Kurs: 1:20!

#Geschichte

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

(18 Nov) Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead https://s.faithcollapsing.com/xb4bc #antitrust-law #facebook #federal-trade-commission #instagram #meta #monopoly #policy #reels #tiktok #whatsapp #youtube

If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/if-your-antitrust-case-depends-on-pretending-tiktok-doesnt-exist-its-going-to-fail/

Was mich bei Brettspielen immer fertig macht:

Ein junges Pärchen kommt ins Cafe, schaut sich 20 Minuten die fast 1000 Spiele in den Regalen an. Dann entscheiden sie sich freudestrahlend für:
Monopoly

#Brettspiele
#Monopoly
#BrettUndBohne

#ORR SPARZWANG

& KLASSENUNTERSCHIED

🤘 feat. Hybrid #Gebühren #Rundfunk

🙃 🤑 😲

#zdf #show #deutschland #kritik #fernsehen #politik #gesellschaft #unterhaltung #satire #3sat #wdr #rbb #nrd #kultur #socialmedia #online #kapitalismus #protest #medien #presse #report #socialmedia #manipulation #reichweite #monopoly #zukunft #kika

@Nordstadtblogger #wasser #energie #strom alles #monopoly damit lässt sich richtig was verdienen... Und ja es wird alles immer teurer werden. Alles. Obwohl genau das Gegenteil versprochen wurde.

Liebe Besitzer von Schlossalleen und Parkstraßen, was denkt ihr, wie es endet, wenn das Spiel so weiter geht? Und was denkt ihr passiert, wenn eure Regeln umgeworfen werden und wenn es kein Gefängnis mehr gibt?

#TaxTheRich #Monopoly #Gerechtigkeit

Great essay about #valve and #steam on why even the most benevolent of companies shouldn't be allowed to have a #monopoly.

https://youtu.be/hFJb3CzPso0

Pearson's Technology Chief perfectly sums up the danger of big tech and AI: "Microsoft is dominant in the enterprise. It was a natural choice if we're thinking about how to train people in communication in the workplace."
Not the best. Not the most efficient. Not the most appropriate.
#AI #monopoly
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/microsoft-faces-uphill-climb-to-win-in-ai-chatbots-with-copilot.html

Last month, I crossed paths with the very last touch of Mr. Monopoly — tucked away in a McDonald’s here in the UK.

我有抓著大富翁的尾巴 — 在英國。🍟🎩

#monopoly #大富翁 #mcdonaldsuk #mcdonalds #推特吃 #twiteat

@robcinos

There were two sets of rules for Monopoly.

One for capitalism
One of socialism

Once Parker Bros(?) bought the game, they only kept the capitalism, which was meant to illustrate how bad it is when only one player cleans up.

#monopoly

🍍 #MEDIENKOMPETENZ 📥Fest

Im Namen des #INFORMATION 's Gehalts 🍌

🍒 #MASTODON ein offenes Bekenntnis
zur Clan-Seilschaft

ein Amalgam aus selbsternannten #Moderation 's Koryphäen 🍑

DieNeueFreiheit der InstanzenÖkumene 🍐

hysterisches FröscheAcapella im #Data Kochtopf🌡️ in Endlosschleife

#gutenmorgen #socialmedia #politik #online #unterhaltung #gesellschaft #medien #report #info #manipulation #reichweite #monopoly #zukunft #it #presse #protest #wochenende #kommunikation #demokratie

Google Search is dogshit.
https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research

#monopoly
#google
#fuckgoogle
#antitrust
#breakupgoogle
#fuckai

The judge in Google's adtech monopoly case is reportedly pushing for a swift resolution, potentially sidelining Google's appeal plans. On top of a €3.5B EU fine, a forced breakup could be on the horizon. Is this the shake-up the industry needs, or just more legal wrangling?

Read more here: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/a-decision-about-breaking-up-googles-adtech-monopoly-is-on-the-horizon-184409011.html?src=rss

#Google #AdTech #Monopoly #TechNews #Antitrust