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The Big Tech Extortion Racket
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Unsubscribe from all: how to stop Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Uber from controlling our lives

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The Big Tech Extortion Racket
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How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

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Viral Goods

From reports of items whose popularity has increased since the novel coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic in March. Antiseptic wipes Bleach Bicycles Freezers Cologne Ventilators Surgical masks Pornography featuring…

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Shopping-Mall Time Machine
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I started hearing it about two years ago, and then I seemed to hear it constantly: people in their late teens and early twenties complaining, quite sincerely, that they felt…

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The Melancholy of Anatomy
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By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Helter Seltzer
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The campaign against SodaStream

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Kiss and Makeup
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From observational notes cited in “Everyday Advertising Context: An Ethnography of Advertising Response in the Family Living Room,” by the Australian researchers Laknath Jayasinghe and Mark Ritson, in the June…

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Blank Generation
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A Supposedly Fun Thing
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The academic marketplace
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Gazing Into Bergdorf’s Window
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Reflections on the higher shopping

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