"When we blame "laziness" for tech #monopolies, we send the message that our friends have to choose between life's joys and comforts, and a fair economic system that doesn't corrupt our politics, screw over workers, and destroy small, local businesses. This isn't true. It's a lie that monopolists tell to justify their abuse..." - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/#or-give-me-death

#tech #business #enshittification

#google #job #blog #news #history

♲ Digital Angel - 2024-04-10 22:22:14 GMT

Surprise: #Google has transformed itself from a #hipster #startup into a cheesy, normal #company, where you are now just as much of an #employee as anywhere else.https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/
#job #history #economy #internet #software #developer #coder #nerd #change #news #business #management #blog

#google #money #security #browser #chrome #internet #economy #news

♲ Digital Angel - 2024-04-10 22:01:30 GMT

#Google: If you want #browser #security, it will cost you something.https://chromeenterprise.google/products/chrome-enterprise-premium/
#software #internet #enterprise #economy #money #business #chrome #news

Surprise: #Google has transformed itself from a #hipster #startup into a cheesy, normal #company, where you are now just as much of an #employee as anywhere else.

https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/
#job #history #economy #internet #software #developer #coder #nerd #change #news #business #management #blog

Yup, about sums it up...

#AI #tech #business

#Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

#economy #supermarket #business #pay #news #technology #future #video #job #shopping

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

^{Maxwell Zeff (Gizmodo)}

Everyone is always talking about how they want you to think outside the box, by which, presumably, they mean to think unconventionally. But it’s rare that someone actually wants you to think beyond the parameters of what they’re comfortable with, as their comfort is entirely what delineates the confines of the box. It is, in fact, the very point of the box.

#Creativity #Marketing #Business #Medium #Philosophy

https://abitdodgy.uk/thinking-inside-the-box-f17ced76d3d1

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!… I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”

#business #AlienationFromSelf

#AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in #UK, says report

source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/27/ai-apocalypse-could-take-away-almost-8m-jobs-in-uk-says-report

#Women, younger workers and lower paid are at most risk from artificial intelligence

#technology #economy #business #work #job #future #news

AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report

Women, younger workers and lower paid are at most risk from artificial intelligence, says IPPR thinktank

^{Richard Partington (The Guardian)}

“The real solution to the local #news crisis needs to come from the bottom up – from folks at the community level who decide to take their news and information needs into their own hands.”

Local #journalism doesn’t need big nationwide philanthropic programs like Press Forward so much as it needs local journalism #entrepreneurs who know what their community needs and see local #journalism as a worthy investment.

By @dankennedy_nu:
https://theconversation.com/community-based-entrepreneurs-are-leading-the-way-in-solving-the-local-news-crisis-224589
#news #business #media

Community-based entrepreneurs are leading the way in solving the local news crisis

As digital news pioneers observed, ‘local doesn’t scale.’ Any solution to the local news crisis is going to involve reporters and editors who are creative and smart about what works for their readers.

^{The Conversation}

"The share price of Donald Trump’s social media company jumped by more than 50% minutes after it began public trading under the ticker DJT on Tuesday morning."

CNBC reports: "Trump Media’s merger with the shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. was completed Monday, allowing it to become publicly traded, it added almost $4 billion in paper profits to Donald Trump’s net worth."

https://flip.it/EYghwF

#Trump #TruthSocial #SocialMedia #WallStreet #Business #USPolitics

Trump Media stock jumps as much as 50% after DJT ticker debut

Donald Trump last used the DJT stock ticker for a a casino and hotel operator. He's hoping his social media company does better than the last firm did.

^{Dan Mangan (CNBC)}

5 out of the 6 biggest U.S. airlines have raised their checked bag fees just this year. It’s all a tax-law loophole, an economist explains.

Airlines pay the federal government 7.5% of the ticket price when flying people domestically, and it's included in the price (unlike usual taxes).

But – simply put – if the airline can make you pay the extra fees by putting it into your baggage costs, they pay less taxes.
https://theconversation.com/why-do-airlines-charge-so-much-for-checked-bags-this-obscure-rule-helps-explain-why-225857 #travel #business

Embrace a future where your business not only thrives but also champions the common good.

https://rawsoninternetmarketing.com/using-solidarity-economy-principles-to-boost-your-business/

#solidarity #community #business #future