Today's links
- The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.
- This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: climate
Pluralistic: 11 Mar 2022
Today's links
- The SEC must not legitimize fake "carbon offsets": Net zero is not zero.
- Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
- This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022
Today's links
- Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist": Big Content wants to plug your A-Hole!
- Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism: It's all about the externalities.
- Eating invasive species: How to structure an invasivorism that doesn't hunger for more invaders.
- This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2022
Today's links
- Litigation finance pits greed against greed: There was a late-stage captialism that swallowed a fly…
- Occupy the SEC on bank mergers: The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index considered harmful.
- This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 04 Feb 2022
Today's links
- A covid vaccine for your airways: The promising science of nasal spray vaccines.
- Rail monopolies destroyed the American supply chain: Heads they win, tails we lose.
- This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 04 Jan 2022
Today's links
- Science fiction is a Luddite literature: My latest column for Locus Magazine.
- Neal Stephenson's 'Termination Shock': Geoengineering and the end of the world.
- Stellar images of quack exercise machines: A memento mori for anyone flexing in lycra on a Peleton.
- This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 26 Oct 2021
Today's links
- Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Podcasting "Disneyland at a stroll": Winding up my series on "amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing" (for now).
- The Unraveling: Ben Rosenbaum's stunning debut novel.
- What kind of emergency is our emergency?: Kim Stanley Robinson on the structure of feeling of this perilous moment.
- The secrets of hospital bills: What do you call a "market" where no one chooses the services or knows the prices?
- This day in history: None
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2021
Today's links
- Sandman Slim's final adventure: King Bullet brings in Richard Kadrey's masterpiece for a hell of a landing.
- Big Oil caught lying about methane: 84 times worse than CO2.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 30 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Corruption: Concentrated gains, diffused losses.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading