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Mar 18
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The market for carbon credit lemons; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/gre…

#Pluralistic 1/ A picture of a logged-out f...
The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.

2/  Image:  Matt Zimmerman (mo...
#15yrsago Why ebooks’ success has nothing to do with screen quality locusmag.com/Features/2007/…

#15yrsago DRM causes 75 percent of tech support calls arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 3/ Image
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Mar 18
The idea of selling indulgences - the right to sin, for a price - has been controversial for the past 500+ years, since Jan Hus's condemnation of the practice. And yet here we are, in the age of #CarbonOffsets, where forgiveneess for torching the planet is for sale. 1/ A picture of a logged-out f...
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The fundamental premise of carbon offsets is that capitalism - that machine for socializing costs and privatizing gains - isn't the problem, it's the *solution*. 3/
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Mar 17
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/17/sha…

#Pluralistic 1/
Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism: A planned economy run by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.

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#20yrsago Me reading from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom craphound.com/audio/Doctorow…

#15yrsago RIAA explains why they’re suing your children web.archive.org/web/2007031921…

#15yrsago David Byrne: Who needs music labels? reuters.com/article/indust… 3/ Image
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