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Alphabet as globe-spanning empire of mediocrity is on the way out: it might take a year or a decade, but it’s too far along to reverse. The hard-core of Google
by benreesman 2y ago
Alphabet as globe-spanning empire of mediocrity is on the way out: it might take a year or a decade, but it’s too far along to reverse.
The hard-core of Google excellence will remain, by that name or another. It was called DEC (and Bell) before, and it will be called something in a decade.
These institutions have been so kind as to rebrand themselves when they went from excellent to awful: Google became Alphabet, Facebook became Meta, Twitter became X, OpenAI became, whatever they’re going to call the awful thing.
You fight back by waiting, and by voting for people who won’t fire Lina Khan.
- feraloink 2y agoYou know about Lina Khan too! She recognized the anti-trust problems with vertically integrated monopolies a long time ago. She's the youngest chair of the FTC. Biden appointed her and I hope that she serves another four years. She has support from across the gamut: Bernie and Elizabeth Warren as well as Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawley https://www.notus.org/republicans/biden-official-lina-khan-ftc-maga-gaetz https://www.notus.org/republicans/biden-official-lina-khan-f...