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Inside: Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax; Russian "ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder; and more!

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Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax: Step one: tar. Step two: ???

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Russian "ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder: Enjoy your rouble-denominated coupons, assholes.

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#15yrsago Allen Ginsberg’s “Put Down Your Cigarette Rag”

#10yrsago America’s 55-hour work weeks ruin workers’ lives and don’t produce extra value for employers salon.com/2012/03/14/bri… 4/

#10yrsago Bunnie Huang’s open Geiger counter: design notes and reference bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2218

#5yrsago Uber uses its in-app podcasts to broadcast anti-union messages to drivers theverge.com/2017/3/14/1491…

#5yrsago In defense of left-wing space utopias currentaffairs.org/2017/03/the-re… 5/

#5yrsago What’s the difference between a CEO and a president? medium.com/newco/youre-fi…

#5yrsago In a wide-ranging interview, Edward @Snowden offers surveillance advice to Trump theintercept.com/2017/03/15/int… 6/

#5yrsago Podcast: how to secure software by caring about humans, not security oreilly.com/content/scout-…

#5yrsago CBP conducted more device searches at the border in Feb than in all of 2015 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 7/

#5yrsago Flint official punished for water crisis: she must write an apology letter, will not serve time nakedcapitalism.com/2017/03/flint-…

#5yrsago Wishbone breaks: massive leak of popular survey site reveals millions of teens’ information vice.com/en/article/wnk… 8/

#1yrago STREAMLINER: Vantablack noir French hotrod comics for the win pluralistic.net/2021/03/15/fre…

#1yrago Free markets: My latest @Locusmag column on rent-seeking and audiobooks pluralistic.net/2021/03/15/fre… 9/

#1yrago Making Hay: My new "Lost Cause" story in MIT @TechReview's "Make Shift" pluralistic.net/2021/03/15/fre… 10/

Yesterday's threads: Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients; Podcasting "Vertically Challenged"; and more!

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

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My latest @Medium column is: "The Byzantine Premium: The contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy":

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