"When Amazon ran a “counter-sale” last year during Independent Bookstore Day — an annual event that takes place the last Saturday of April — the move backfired. The giant triggered a wave of support for independent bookstores that gave many their biggest day of sales — ever. People are more aware now that how and where they spend money is powerful. Booksellers see that up close."
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Joel VanderWerf
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mastodon 4.7.3Mathematician. Applying semigroup theory to distributed computing, convergent replication.
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@stewf I met him near the BART station last August, but I didn't know he was called Kevin!
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io Analogous to what many people had to learn about Trump 8 years ago, that he's not a businessman, executive of a large corporation, or property developer. Just a bully with mob tactics who mostly failed at these pursuits.
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@BruceHalperin@sfba.social "Cryptoboros" (how my eyes saw that) is the infinite feedback loop of crypto boosterism