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

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The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.

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#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/

#10yrsago Average Congresscritter gets 1,452% raises when they turn corporate lobbyist republicreport.org/2012/make-it-r…

#5yrsago Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2017 keynote: what should humans do? wired.com/beyond-the-bey… 4/

#5yrsago New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson dreams vivid about weathering climate crisis memex.craphound.com/2017/03/18/new…

#1yrago Aviation bailout cost $666k/job pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/new…

#1yrago Help news, not news-barons pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/new… 5/

Yesterday's threads: Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1504524296915496961

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

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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 ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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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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Today's top sources: @SteffenBoehm (twitter.com/SteffenBoehm). 18/