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365 Movies Challenge #136; They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter: wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/670025828…
365 Movies Challenge #136; They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter: wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/670025828…
365 Movies Challenge #136; They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter: wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/670025828…
365 Movies Challenge #136; They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter: wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/670025828…
365 Movies Challenge #136; They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter: wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/670025828…

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9 Dec
In *Electrify*, the MacArthur prizewinning engineer @GriffithSaul offers a detailed, optimistic and urgent roadmap for a climate-respecting energy transition that we can actually accomplish in 10-15 years.

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8 Dec
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2021; Broken Promises; How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax; and more!

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All the books I reviewed in 2021: Plus one I published!



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8 Dec
When you hear that a billionaire has bought a horse or a newspaper or a sports team, you might think it's just dilletantish dabbling by a member of the parasite class with nothing better to do with their time - a way to make the idle rich slightly more vigorous.

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But as @propublica documents in the latest installment of its #IRSLeaks reporting - drawing on never-seen tax filings of the ultra-rich - hobbies are a way to pile up gigantic tax write-offs that can be applied to passive income (money you earn for doing nothing).

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8 Dec
40 years ago, the Reagan administration decided that monopolies were good, actually.

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Rather than preventing the kinds of mega-mergers that increased corporate power (over workers, regulators, customers and competitors), Reagan decreed that monopolies were "efficient" and should be left alone.

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8 Dec
This is more-or-less my last blogging day of 2021 (I may sneak a post or two in before the New Year, but I might not), so it's time for my annual roundup of my book reviews from the year gone by.

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