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UK Lets Apple and Google Self-Regulate Their App Store Monopolies

The UK Competition and Markets Authority's agreement with Apple and Google reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist state regulation: the state's structural dependence on capital accumulation limits its capacity to meaningfully constrain that same capital. Despite formally...

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OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar Gamble Socializes Risk, Privatizes Gains

Sam Altman's OpenAI represents a crystallization of late-stage capitalist accumulation dynamics, where massive resource extraction—energy consumption exceeding entire European nations, $1.4 trillion in datacenter investment—is justified through utopian promises of solving climate change and...

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