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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2020 22:54:12 UTC Strypey
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Thing is, once the net and the web went mainstream, the decline of the classified ad sections funding newspaper journalism was inevitable. Even if there were no #Craigslist etc, there would still be #Freecycle.org and info pages listing local second hand dealers, and other net-based tools that help people exchange used stuff. In #Aotearoa, one of the major newspaper chains moved with the times by buying #TradeMe, the local equivalent of #Ebay or #Amazon.

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Balu (balu@mastodonten.de@mastodonten.de)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2020 09:49:28 UTC Balu
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Happy #FOSDEM everybody! 🎉 🎉
And don't forget to be grateful for #Google 😇 , #Amazon 😇 and #Facebook 😇 to sponsor the event! 💞

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nil (shamar@qoto.org@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2020 14:53:13 UTC nil
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If Capitalism was the default, you'd find it among apes. Instead Capitalism is a recent invention and it's always evolving towards stronger concentration of wealth.
But let's recap.
By now we know that wealth generation (by technology) doesn't prevent its concentration during distribution and how such concentration subtracts such wealth from being distributed (by definition).
Just like a dam at the river head, people concentrating wealth subtract to those who would get down the flow (think of Bezos and #Amazon employees).
Furthermore you accept that people are not rational agent: they are continuously manipulated through their biases (the "behavioral futures" that #Surveillance capitalist trade) to buy products they don't need (thus NOT generating wealth, but giving away their own wealth).
Also (as far as I can see in this thread) you don't contest the fact that corporation aren't rational either as they optimize one single scalar dimension, profit: the net wealth built by corporation that maximize profits is negative as soon as you take the externalities into account.
Now the point of a #UMW (Universal Maximum Wealth) is not to punish anyone for harming anyone else. And it's not even a way to turn irrational people into rational one! (for that we need education, with a strong focus on #History and #Informatics, see http://www.tesio.it/2019/06/03/what-is-informatics.html)
UMW is just a way to build a simple and effective incentive system designed balance #collaboration and #competition.
One the drive to accumulate more wealth is balanced by the need to increase the wealth of everybody else, corporations will have fewer and fewer reasons to fool people through #marketing.
So while people will stay as irrational as they already are, there will be no advantage to exploit their bias.
In that context, #AdamSmith's #trust would be possible again, raising the probability of actual wealth creation by rational trades.
Basically, in such framework Capitalism could probably work.
Now, you see all this is flawed, but you didn't explain (or I didn't understood) how.
@design_RG

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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2020 17:23:27 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

“Give Up Google”

Yes, this is a good trend, but if it stops with Google, it is an absolute failure at protecting privacy. Instead of “De-Google” it needs to be DecentraLife (including giving up #Google, #Facebook, #Amazon, #Microsoft, and other large corporations that spy on users) ... avoiding the concentration of users and resources that enables these companies to abuse users in the first place.

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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 06:42:56 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

#Amazon contacted me again. If my son sends the receipt for the cost of shipping the wrong server back, they'll add that to my refund. That will still only be about $210 out of the approximately $350 that we've spent on this.

I'm still not happy with them and especially not with their marketplace vendor (who claimed that we damaged the Citrix server and therefore were not entitled to a refund). I'd love to send them the photos of the packaging and the server itself (including something hanging off the back, a corner taped shut with gaffers tape, both of which look like pre-shipping damage).

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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2019 22:15:50 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

Still trying to get #Amazon to intervene and refund my money on that server purchase mess-up. (Seller sent the wrong item, then I got stuck with shipping cost to send it back; seller still has not refunded any of my money.)

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wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2019 01:10:09 UTC wolliw
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Amazon's Facial Recognition Creates Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People
https://jezebel.com/amazons-facial-analysis-program-is-building-a-dystopic-1835075450
#surveillancecapitalism #policestate #dystopia #amazon

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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2019 17:42:35 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
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It amazes me all the alarmism over the Amazon Fires lately. As someone who is a huge advocate of the environment and eco-friendly policies even I can easily dismiss the alarmism on this one with a little research.
Before I say what I'm about to say on this I want to point out, climate change is real, deforestation is a big issue, and the loss of life here (human and otherwise) deserves mourning.
With that said a few things.
1) This fires are not unusual in number or size in any way. Forest fires throughout the amazon and the rest of the world occur at this magnitude every single year during the dry season. In fact if we look at the past 15 years this year is not particularly high in any way.
2) Forrest fires, both intentional and natural are in fact good for the planet and eco system assuming their scale is not unusually high (which these are not). In fact they are BETTER than not having fires. The reason for this is forrest fire produce extremely nutrient rich soil that causes very fast growth the following year with high density. Sinc enew forests produce more O2 than old forests this is a good thing. Furthermore the ecosystems are evolved to need forest fires. Many trees can only spread their seeds during a forest fire.
Being a Data Scientist I feel compelled to back this up. I can think of many sources I could use from showing the fire map time lapse for the last 2 decades or other visualizations. But I think the best summary is the graph I attached to this post. You will see total CO2 emissions in brazil due to forest fires. This data is up to date as of this week. It is evident that the total mass of fires is not unusual high relative to the past 15 years. In fact it is actually much lower than the average during the previous decade.
#Amazon #AmazonFires #Science #DataScience #Facts

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wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2019 20:17:44 UTC wolliw
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#Amazon Requires Police to Shill #Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement
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1. Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement
  
  from Vice
  
  The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 16:34:47 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

https://nu.federati.net/url/236705 [pia blog]

#Amazon and local #police turn Ring doorbell cameras into unsupervised #surveillance system

I've seen this story elsewhere, but it bears repeating. Giving so much information & power to one entity is always dangerous, whether that entity is Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, some other company, or the government.
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1. Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems
  
  from Private Internet Access Blog
  
  Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems
wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 19:44:36 UTC wolliw
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Orlando cancels #Amazon #Rekognition program, capping 15 months of glitches and controversy
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/07/18/orlando-cancels-amazon-rekognition-capping-15-months-of-glitches-and-controversy
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1. Orlando cancels Amazon Rekognition program, capping 15 months of glitches and controversy | Orlando Weekly exclusive
  
  from Orlando Weekly
  
  Orlando's two-phase pilot with Amazon to try out real-time facial recognition software ended Thursday, capping 15 months of technical lags, bandwidth issues and uncertainty over...
wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 13:46:26 UTC wolliw
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It's #Amazon Crime Day
Be sure to boycott Amazon
Whole Foods Market
Abebooks
Alexa
Zappos
Audible
Goodreads
IMDb
Washington Post
Twitter
etc
Jeff Bozos exploits workers and sells ReKognition to cops (and potentially ICE in the future).

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wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2019 22:19:39 UTC wolliw
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Some #Amazon Echo Data is Being Kept Indefinitely, Even After Deletion
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/amazon-keeps-echo-data/

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wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2019 16:17:54 UTC wolliw
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#Amazon's Facial Recognition Creates Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People
https://jezebel.com/amazons-facial-analysis-program-is-building-a-dystopic-1835075450
#surveillancecapitalism

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André E. Veltstra (aeveltstra@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2019 12:06:55 UTC André E. Veltstra
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"AWS in Plain English" takes #Amazon's brand names for their cloud computing services and clarifies their purpose in a few words: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

#AWS #AmazonWebServices #CloudComputing

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Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 17:11:20 UTC Annika Backstrom
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I'm so annoyed right now. I very intentionally bought something off #Newegg instead of #Amazon, and it got drop-shipped from Amazon Prime.

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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2019 00:24:08 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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@amic Based on my last few orders, I'd say #Amazon is a gambling site. Maybe it will arrive early, maybe it will arrive late, maybe it will take two months and never show up.

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Luka /sonomu.club/ (luka@sonomu.club)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 17:44:37 UTC Luka /sonomu.club/
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"Anyone who thought the digital revolution would remove so called “gate keepers” are painfully wrong."
"This is your value gap. Nearly 50% of all recorded music streams only generate 7% of revenue."
https://thetrichordist.com/2019/01/29/2018-streaming-price-bible-per-stream-rates-drop-as-streaming-volume-grows-youtubes-value-gap-is-very-real/
#StopArtistExploitation #Streaming #Music #Spotify #YouTube #Apple #Amazon #Tidal #Pandora #Deezer
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1. 2018 Streaming Price Bible! Per Stream Rates Drop as Streaming Volume Grows. YouTube’s Value Gap is Very Real.
  
  By trichordist from The Trichordist
  Here we go again. To see previous years, click [here].
  
  This data set is isolated to the calendar year 2018 and represents a mid-sized indie label with an approximately 250+ album catalog now generating almost 1b streams annually. 2018 is the year we saw streaming truly mature as the dominant source of recorded music revenues.
  
  In parsing the data provided we find that digital revenues are 86% of all recorded music revenues globally (RIAA Reports Digital Revenues as 90% of Total). Streaming is 80% (or more) of Digital Music Revenues. Downloads are about 20% of digital music revenues for the year, however if we isolate Q4, it would appear download revenues could be less than 15% of digital revenues. The transition from downloads to streaming is well beyond the tipping point and we wonder how long the major services (Apple, Amazon, Google) will continue to support the format.
  
  As we dig down into the physical revenues much of the gross is eroded by manufacturing, shipping and inventory costs of both CDs and Vinyl. In short, the recorded music business is now the streaming music business. Whatever charm there is to vinyl, it is at best still a truly niche business in terms of meaningful net revenues.
  
  Every year there are surprises in the data and this year is no exception. As always we present this data as a single sample, but one we feel is fairly representative of the state of the business. As such, we welcome comments from others with access to similar data to report on their findings. Some of the percentages may vary dependent upon the genre of music and the size of the label or artist. However, we generally don’t find trends that are completely contradictory to our sample where it matters most, in reporting on stream rates and relative marketshare.
  
  We’ve also simplified the chart this year. Just one chart, and only the Top 20 streamers which represent 99.35% of all streaming dollars. The Top 10 streamers account for over 97% of all music streaming revenues. The Top 5 account for over 88% of all streaming dollars. What we see below is a maturing marketplace with a small number of dominant players. Anyone who thought the digital revolution would remove so called “gate keepers” are painfully wrong.
  
  If you want to compare these numbers against the RIAA’s official report for the first half of 2018, click [here]. That data is for the USA and only through June of 2018. It’s hard to get “apples to apples” reporting, so everything should be taken as different perspectives on the overall business. If you are an artist or label, see how your own data compares.
  
  The biggest takeaway by far is that YouTube’s Content ID, (in our first truly comprehensive data set) shows a whopping 48% of all streams generate only 7% of revenue. Read that again. This is your value gap. Nearly 50% of all recorded music streams only generate 7% of revenue.
  
  The Spotify per stream rate drops again from .00397 to .00331 a decrease of 16%. Apple Music gains almost 3% for an total global marketshare of about just under 25% of all revenue.
  
  Apple’s per stream rate drops from .00783 to .00495 a decrease of 36%. We need to state again, that 2018 saw a massive shift of revenues from downloads to streaming and no doubt this expansion of scale, combined with more aggressive bundling (free trials) as well as launching into more territories was bound to bring down the overall net per stream.
  
  Apple Music still lead in the sweet spot with about 10% of overall streams generating 25% of all revenue (despite the per stream rate drop). Spotify by comparison has nearly triple the marketshare in streams than Apple Music but generates less than double the revenues on that volume.
  
  The biggest takeaway by far is that YouTube’s Content ID, (in our first truly comprehensive data set) shows a whopping 48% of all streams and only 7% of revenue. Read that again. This is your value gap. Nearly 50% of all recorded music streams only generate 7% of revenue. Apple Music and Spotify combined account for just short of 40% of all streams and 74% of all revenue.
  
  We don’t know how the powers that be at the major labels can continue to allow for this gross inequity. It will be interesting to see how YouTube Red numbers evolve over this year. YouTube Red, the newly rebranded version of the disastrous “Music Key” is off to a slow start in a competitive subscription music marketplace. One has to ask, what incentive is there really for Google/YouTube with the Red subscription service when they already benefit from service 48% of all streams while paying only 7% of the overall revenue?
  
  In looking at the per stream rates for song and album, you might want to read this article by Billboard on the current calculation of how many streams equal and album for the purposes of charting. We don’t know if YouTube Content ID streams count towards charting, but they absolutely should not. The report states that, “The Billboard 200 will now include two tiers of on-demand audio streams. TIER 1: paid subscription audio streams (equating 1,250 streams to 1 album unit) and TIER 2: ad-supported audio streams (equating 3,750 streams to 1 album unit).”
  
  In the coming year Amazon’s Unlimited Music service shows promise. We also wonder about Google Play. The payouts on Google Play are fair, but when bundled into the YouTube ecosystem is largely inconsequential in terms of both streams served and revenue. As smart home assistants grow there could be a larger market segment for paying subscribers to have streaming music catalogs available and on demand.
  
  These numbers are from one set of confidentially supplied data for global sales. If you have access to other data sources that you can share, we’d love to see it.
  
  HOW WE CALCULATED THE STREAMS PER SONG / ALBUM RATE:
  
  As streaming services only pay master royalties (to labels) and not publishing, the publishing has to be deducted from the master share to arrive at the comparable cost per song/album.
  
  $.99 Song is $.70 wholesale after 30% fee. Deduct 1 full stat mechanical at $.091 = $.609 per song.
  
  Multiply the above by 10x’s and you get the album equivalent of $6.09 per album
  
  [EDITORS NOTE: All of the data above is aggregated. In all cases the total amount of revenue is divided by the total number of the streams per service (ex: $5,210 / 1,000,000 = .00521 per stream). In cases where there are multiple tiers and pricing structures (like Spotify), these are all summed together and divided to create an averaged, single rate per play.]
  
  [royalties][streaming royalties][music royalties][royalty rates]
wolliw (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 23:56:38 UTC wolliw
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#Amazon’s facial-recognition #surveillance technology is supercharging local policing in Washington County, #Oregon
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-facial-recognition-technology-is-supercharging-local-police/
#HIO #PDX
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1. Amazon’s facial-recognition technology is supercharging local policing in Oregon
  
  from The Seattle Times
  
  An Oregon sheriff's office became the first law-enforcement agency in the country known to use Amazon's artificial-intelligence tool Rekognition. It's now a testing ground for a new wave of experimental police surveillance techniques.
El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳 (elacheche@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2019 13:55:36 UTC El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳
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#Amazon utilise un #algorithme pour licencier automatiquement ses employés https://www.journaldugeek.com/2019/04/29/amazon-utilise-algorithme-licencier-automatiquement-employes/
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1. Amazon utilise un algorithme pour licencier automatiquement ses employés
  
  By Amandine Jonniaux from Journal du Geek
  
  Après avoir été épinglé pour le mauvais traitement réservé à ses employés, Amazon est de ...

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