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Austrian<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@NateProle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NateProle</span></a></span> Mr. Sirota wrote "everything" but did not mention the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a>. Everyone should understand that mass production exists for mass <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consumption</span></a>. The rich can live without mass production. And we live in a system in which the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> rules, not the rich. <br><a href="https://mises.org/library/book/bureaucracy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mises.org/library/book/bureauc</span><span class="invisible">racy</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a></p>
Austrian<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@NateProle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NateProle</span></a></span> Without <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a>, people will live without medicines, pesticides, fertilizers, etc. The question arises: how many people will remain on the planet?<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a></p>
Austrian<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@NateProle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NateProle</span></a></span> You should think very seriously about the fallacies you are spreading. How can you or anyone else produce a spaceship or even the bread sold in the local store without enormous capital and capitalists who own and operate these capital objects? Do you want to go back to the 15th or even the 5th century? Modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workers</span></a> cooperate with capitalists, entrepreneurs, landowners in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a> of all the things you can see around you. Think about it.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a></p>
Austrian<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>greenpeace</span></a></span> Why "make polluters pay"? Why not "make eaters pay", "make travelers pay", etc.? If ordinary people decide consume less goods, than the "polluters" will produce less oil.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a></p>
Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻<p>Hi <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://j12t.social/@j12t" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>j12t</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@tchambers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tchambers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benpate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>benpate</span></a></span>,<br>isn't <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discovery</span></a> without <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/webfinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webfinger</span></a> (hostnames and dns in essence) a <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> and thus <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/centralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centralisation</span></a> in disguise?</p><p>I mean DNS is the centralised infra we prbly can't do without anyway - why not stand on that shoulder and not add another global registry?</p><p>Moving may be done via redirects (like IRL).</p>
Maria Truth<p>"Humans are not perfect creatures and tend to distort the facts either intentionally or unintentionally. There are always the brightest minds who offer justice, but they are exception. So always be reserved of what others tell. It might be more fiction than fiction."</p><p>☆ Maria Karvouni Truth<br>The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deception</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deceit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deceit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bullying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialjustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perception</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a></p>
Luke Dorny<p>It’s a great time to brush up on our logfals. </p><p><a href="https://typo.social/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/perception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perception</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">yourlogicalfallacyis.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChayaRaichik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChayaRaichik</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JoelBerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoelBerry</span></a> are flaming heaps of human garbage who insist that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tolerance</span></a> means tolerating their intolerance.</p><p>This is a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> that ultimately means bigoted, destructive pieces of shit must be accepted and tolerated so they can spread their <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> free from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a>. I hope the worst life has to offer lands on their doorstep every day they continue to plague this planet with their existence. Tolerate that.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LibsOfTikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibsOfTikTok</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HateMongers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HateMongers</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigotry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/libsoftiktok-banned-from-bluesky-after-just-9-days-on-the-site/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/libsof</span><span class="invisible">tiktok-banned-from-bluesky-after-just-9-days-on-the-site/</span></a></p>
Daniel AJ Sokolov<p>Supervised self-driving <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/vehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vehicles</span></a> are a <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a>. Normal <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/drivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drivers</span></a> can not do that. We can't watch a computer for hours, weeks, then be ready within a second to take over. Moreover, how can we be useful when we take over if we haven't been <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/driving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>driving</span></a> much lately?</p><p>Sure, commercial airline pilots can be in a similar situation. But they have extensive training, including simulators. Such training is very expensive, unaffordable for private car drivers. And pilots have a lot more time to react.<br><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/FSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FSD</span></a></p>
Miku ra<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LogicalFallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LogicalFallacy</span></a> lesson 1</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ad_hominem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ad_hominem</span></a>: <br>When someone attacks the person and their traits instead of addressing the argument, it's known as an Ad Hominem fallacy. This is a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> because attacking the person does not discredit or invalidate their argument.</p><p>Example: "Your takes on the dangers of monopolies is invalid because you're a socialist"</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Another aspect of debt, <br>considered as an information technology, <br>is that if affects the information environment of the borrower. </p><p>If you are managing a company which has borrowed money, <br>making your payments becomes one of the survival conditions for that company. </p><p>At low levels of debt, generating short term cash flow is one priority among others, <br>but for a highly indebted company it becomes a signal which swamps all others. </p><p>You might want to change the world, but if you don’t meet the coupon payments, you’ll never get the chance to see if your other strategic priorities would have worked.</p><p>Consequently, a company with lots of debt cannot help but have a bias toward the short term. </p><p>Which might be considered problematic, <br>as the last few decades in the Western capitalist world have seen the rise of an industry <br>(leveraged buyouts, or “private equity”) </p><p>which has made it part of its fundamental operating strategy to load companies up with debt. </p><p>Considered in this light, debt is a technology of control as well as of information <br>– it’s a means of exerting discipline on management teams who might otherwise be tempted to follow priorities other than short-term financial returns.</p><p>This is, as far as I can tell, the real meaning behind the populist critiques of “<a href="https://c.im/tags/financialisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>financialisation</span></a>” in the economy. </p><p>There’s really nothing particularly bad about the growth of the financial sector, <br>even to the extent that it’s outstripped the growth of the “real” economy. </p><p>Quite simple mathematics ought to be enough to convince us that as the economy grows, <br>the number of links and relationships between producers, consumers and investors will grow at a faster rate, <br>and so you’d expect the parts of the economy in which decision making and information processing take place to grow faster than the “real” economy. </p><p>It’s the same logic by which the brains of primates take up proportionally more energy than those of rodents; </p><p>finance is part of the real economy, just like the cerebellum is a real organ.</p><p>What’s bad about “financialisation” is neither more nor less than the over-use of debt. </p><p>Modern corporations do often behave badly, <br>and they make systematically worse decisions than they used to, <br>this isn’t a delusion of age. </p><p>They do this partly because they have outsourced key functions <br>(cutting themselves off from important sources of information), </p><p>and partly because their priorities are warped by the need to generate short term cash flow. </p><p>Both of these problems can in large part be traced back to the private equity industry, <br>working either as a direct driver of excess leverage, <br>or as a constant threat which makes managers behave as if they were already subject to its discipline.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Management</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/cybernetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> is all about things which began as solutions, <br>💥then turned into problems because the world changed. </p><p>Once upon a time, back in the 1970s, <br>private equity and LBOs were the solution to a problem of lazy, sclerotic incumbent management teams, <br>self-dealing and failing to make tough decisions. </p><p>But it’s now the 2020s, and private equity may itself be the biggest problem in our global information processing system. </p><p>The way that corporate history progresses is that we try to keep up with the ever-increasing complexity of the world, <br>♦️and then when this is no longer possible, we have a crisis and reorganise. </p><p>We’ve had the crisis <br>– or perhaps we are still going through it <br>– and now it’s time to think about how to reorganise.</p><p>(3/3)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dan-Davies/author/B07DGHPV6F" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/stores/Dan-Davies/a</span><span class="invisible">uthor/B07DGHPV6F</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/criminogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminogenic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/organisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organisation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stafford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stafford</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clemson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clemson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/737MAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>737MAX</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/merger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>merger</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McDonnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McDonnell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Douglas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Douglas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ricardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ricardian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fallacy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/best" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>best</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/practice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>practice</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>It’s really striking to compare the two big crises of the last two decades.&nbsp; </p><p>The Global Financial Crisis beginning in 2007 was purely a matter of book entries in computers.&nbsp; </p><p>No actual physical capital was destroyed, nobody died.&nbsp; </p><p>By contrast, the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in 2020 was a massive blow to productive capacity<br> – millions of people died, <br>buildings were rendered unusable.&nbsp; </p><p>But it was the first of these two crises that led to massive scarring and a prolonged global recession, not the second.&nbsp; </p><p>Why?</p><p>It might be said that the reason why is that if you consider the world economy as an organism, <br>the pandemic attacked its muscles and sinews <br>while the financial crisis attacked its brain.&nbsp; </p><p>The global financial services industry is a crucial part of the distributed decision-making system of the world, <br>and its core component is a very old, but still surprisingly poorly understood technology <br>called <a href="https://c.im/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debt</span></a>.</p><p>In the strictest, purest sense, <br>debt is an “<a href="https://c.im/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a>”</p><p> – it’s one of the mechanisms human beings have invented to handle information.&nbsp; </p><p>By structuring an investment in someone else’s project as a debt, <br>you immediately reduce the space of possible outcomes to two <br>– you get paid back, or you don’t.&nbsp; </p><p>There are a lot of other information-processing techniques that banks and investors use, <br>from statistical credit scoring to modern portfolio theory, <br>but this is the big one.&nbsp; </p><p>It allows a modern bank to keep track of vastly more financial investments than would ever have been possible for a medieval merchant in the first days of double-entry book-keeping.&nbsp; </p><p>Rather than having to preserve face-to-face relationships with every single borrower, <br>you can rely on the fact that 99% of mortgage loans get paid back in full and on time, <br>and concentrate your attention on managing the 1% of cases where something goes wrong.</p><p>🔥The trouble is that if you build a business on this basis, what happens when it turns out that there’s a small variance❓</p><p>Unfortunately, a small variance in the proportion of good loans from 99% to 97% means a tripling in the number of bad loans❗️</p><p>and consequently a huge excess load on the systems that are meant to deal with them.&nbsp; </p><p>Faced with this massive cognitive overload, <br>the system froze.&nbsp; </p><p>And even more unfortunately, <br>in a world in which trillions of dollars need to be rolled over and refinanced every day, <br>the one thing that the financial sector cannot do is stop for a moment to regain its bearings.&nbsp; </p><p>If information processing was free and the bankruptcy process frictionless, <br>the Global Financial Crisis would have been over in a month.&nbsp; </p><p>As it was, all the information which had been attenuated by the use of multiple layers of secured debt came back, <br>suddenly unattenuated and needing to be dealt with.</p><p>That’s the “cybernetic history” of the debt crisis which I outline in my book, <br>and I think it’s a useful alternative perspective to the economic one, <br>and one which makes it more comprehensible that a relatively small market for synthetic CDOs turned into a continental crisis.&nbsp; </p><p>But this might not even have been the most pernicious use of debt seen in our lifetimes.</p><p>(2/3)</p><p><a href="https://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">profilebooks.com/work/the-unac</span><span class="invisible">countability-machine/</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/criminogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminogenic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/organisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organisation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stafford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stafford</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clemson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clemson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/737MAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>737MAX</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/merger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>merger</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McDonnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McDonnell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Douglas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Douglas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ricardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ricardian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fallacy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/best" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>best</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/practice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>practice</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>More from Dan Davies:</p><p>About five years ago, I started to get very interested in an obscure subject called “<a href="https://c.im/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetics</span></a>”.&nbsp; </p><p>It was a product of the technological dreamscape of the 1960s and 70s; </p><p>after the invention of the computer, but before it became ubiquitous, <br>in a period when there was room for speculation about how the new world of artificial intelligence would change our world.</p><p>I had just finished my previous book<br> (Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World), <br>and was keen to say a bit more about how organisations go wrong.&nbsp; </p><p>It seemed to me that it might be possible to expand the concept of a “<a href="https://c.im/tags/criminogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminogenic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/organisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organisation</span></a>” <br>(one where the incentives structurally produce illegal behaviour) <br>to a more general 🔸“bad-decision-o-genic organisation”.</p><p>And furthermore, that the weird mixture of pure mathematics, philosophy, accountancy, physics and economics that came together in the work of now-forgotten management gurus like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stafford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stafford</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beer</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clemson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clemson</span></a> might be the way to think about it.</p><p>What do bad decision-making organizations have in common❓</p><p>Quite a few things, <br>but one of the clearest signs is something you might call an “<a href="https://c.im/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sink</span></a>”.&nbsp; </p><p>This is something that might be familiar to anyone who has been bumped from an overbooked flight.&nbsp; </p><p>There is no point getting angry at the gate attendant; <br>they are just implementing a corporate policy which they have no power to change.&nbsp; </p><p>But nor can you complain to the person who made the decision <br>– that is also forbidden by the policy.&nbsp; </p><p>The airline has created an arrangement whereby the gate attendant speaks to you with the voice of an amorphous algorithm<br>-- but you have to speak back as if to a human being like yourself.&nbsp; </p><p>The communication between the decision-maker and the decided-upon has been broken <br>– they have created a handy <a href="https://c.im/tags/sink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sink</span></a> into which <a href="https://c.im/tags/negative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>negative</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feedback</span></a> can be poured without any danger of it affecting anything.</p><p>⚠️This breaking of the feedback links is, I think, one of the most important things that has happened to large organisations <br>– banks, but also large corporations and government departments<br> – over the last fifty years.&nbsp; </p><p>In most cases, it’s not been carried out purely as a responsibility-dodging exercise, <br>or as part of a conscious effort to make things worse.&nbsp; </p><p>That has happened, on occasion, <br>but for the most part, after spending a lot of time looking into examples, <br>I concluded that feedback links were being broken simply because 💥they had to be.&nbsp; </p><p>The world keeps growing and getting more complicated, <br>which means that individual managers gradually become overwhelmed; </p><p>the problem of trying to get a sensible drink from the firehose of information that pours into any large organisation every day has become unbearable.</p><p>And this is why institutions have started ❌ delegating decisions to systems <br>– credit scoring algorithms, regulatory risk weighting formulas <br>and the like.&nbsp; </p><p>As well as allowing decision-making to be automated and industrialised, <br>they provide a psychological defense system, <br>👉preventing individual human beings from the consequences of having to make a decision and own it.</p><p>Most of the time, these systems work well.&nbsp; </p><p>But when they break down, the consequences can be spectacular.&nbsp; </p><p>Because every such algorithm or rulebook is, implicitly, based on a <a href="https://c.im/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> of the thing they’re meant to govern.&nbsp; </p><p>And every such model is capable of failure.&nbsp; </p><p>And when something comes along that’s outside the model <br>– like, for example, a sustained nationwide fall in US house prices <br>– you end up in a situation where literally nobody knows what to do.</p><p>(1/3)<br><a href="https://www.netinterest.co/p/decisions-nobody-made" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">netinterest.co/p/decisions-nob</span><span class="invisible">ody-made</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> <br> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/737MAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>737MAX</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/merger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>merger</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McDonnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McDonnell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Douglas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Douglas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ricardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ricardian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fallacy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/best" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>best</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/practice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>practice</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Dan Davies:</p><p>These thoughts struck me while listening to the ** Odd Lots podcast on Boeing, <br>which I thoroughly recommend. </p><p>The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/737MAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>737MAX</span></a> is one of the core case studies in <br>"The Unaccountability Machine" (you can buy it now!), </p><p>because it’s a really graphic example of 💥a decision-making system which generated an awful result -- ⚠️without any identifiable natural person being responsible for it.</p><p>The Odd Lots episode, focuses on <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a>'s 1997 <a href="https://c.im/tags/merger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>merger</span></a> with <a href="https://c.im/tags/McDonnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McDonnell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Douglas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Douglas</span></a> as the inflection point in Boeing’s history.&nbsp; </p><p>♦️This caused a thorough cultural change from Boeing’s historical “<a href="https://c.im/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a>” -- based on ❇️getting things right and doing what was needed, </p><p>♦️to something more in tune with the Jack Welch / Shareholder Value spirit of the times, <br>🆘focused on <a href="https://c.im/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> and "return on investment".</p><p>It's kind of odd, though.&nbsp; </p><p>Boeing was the acquirer and the larger company; <br>McDonnell was actually not in that great shape; <br>it had a good defence business but a bad civilian aircraft business; <br>in fact, one of the attractions for Boeing was that McDonnell had spare factory capacity that it could use to accelerate its own overflowing order book.&nbsp; </p><p>As you’d expect from a company run along financial lines, it was quite indebted too.&nbsp; </p><p>So why was it McDonnell’s culture that became dominant?❓</p><p>⬇️ Let’s take a step back into economics.&nbsp; </p><p>Joseph Schumpeter identified something he called “The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ricardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ricardian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fallacy</span></a>”.&nbsp; </p><p>This is the tendency of economists to 🔹build a theoretical model,<br>🔹solve the model <br>and then 🔸act as if they have solved the problem in the real world.&nbsp; </p><p>To an extent, this isn’t particular to economists <br>– it’s the nature of modelling that having made a representation of reality specifically in order to attenuate its complexity and make a problem manageable, <br>--⭐️ you don’t then go back and unattenuate it.</p><p>But bearing that in mind, the Ricardian Fallacy then interacts with another thing that economists do; <br>--⭐️ they collect data.&nbsp; </p><p>Data gathering is almost never a neutral activity; <br>it takes place within a theoretical framework.&nbsp; </p><p>And what this means is that if the system for gathering, classifying and tabulating the data was designed by people who had a particular model, <br>👉then the data will most likely support that model.&nbsp; </p><p>Everything which is part of the model will be well-verified, data-driven, empirically based and so on.&nbsp; </p><p>Everything which isn’t part of the model will be handwavey, subjective, “hard to quantify” and other synonyms for “probably special pleading and made up”.&nbsp; </p><p>In the book, I have a subsection called “How Ricardians Win Arguments” <br>and this is how: <br>– they collect the data.</p><p>⬆️ Returning from the digression, <br>the important thing to understand is that the financial accounts are a model of the business.&nbsp; </p><p>They incorporate a lot of assumptions, of which perhaps the least analysed but most important one is “the financial year is a meaningful time period for this process”.&nbsp; </p><p>Some things appear in the accounts, and they are the things which can be backed up with numbers.&nbsp; </p><p>Other things don’t, and therefore they can’t.&nbsp; <br>(Or best case, they can only be backed up with ad hoc, unaudited numbers which everyone will be suspicious of).</p><p>💥I think that’s one of the deep causes of what went wrong in Boeing; <br>♦️the McDonnell-Douglas executives were the ones who could back up their business cases with a ream of <a href="https://c.im/tags/hard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>.&nbsp; <br>♦️The legacy Boeing executives were left talking about <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/best" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>best</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/practice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>practice</span></a> and all sorts of soft-sounding things that were hard to put into a model.&nbsp; </p><p>⚠️The Ricardians won the argument, and 🔥the disastrous decisions turned out to have been made without anyone realising they were making them -- when they decided to use the financial reporting system as a tool of management</p><p>(0/3)<br><a href="https://backofmind.substack.com/p/how-the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">backofmind.substack.com/p/how-</span><span class="invisible">the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing</span></a></p><p>** Odd Lots Podcast <br><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moment-that-boeings-culture-started-to-rot/id1056200096?i=1000642200497" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/</span><span class="invisible">the-moment-that-boeings-culture-started-to-rot/id1056200096?i=1000642200497</span></a></p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>&nbsp;<br>When theoretical physicist <a href="https://me.dm/tags/MattODowd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MattODowd</span></a> worries if <a href="https://me.dm/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> is being stalled, could one of the nearly 200 identified <a href="https://me.dm/tags/cognitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cognitive</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/biases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biases</span></a> be at play? One such obstacle to clearer perceiving &amp; thinking is called "Plan Continuation Bias". A 2-minute animated video illustrates the concept. h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.social/@redshiftdrift" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>redshiftdrift</span></a></span></p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr9Rlic6hJk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=rr9Rlic6hJ</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Logical_fallacy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_</span><span class="invisible">cognitive_biases#Logical_fallacy</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirma</span><span class="invisible">tion_bias</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/confirmationbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>confirmationbias</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/continuationbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>continuationbias</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>error</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>The people most likely to complain about grammar are the people least likely to distinguish it from style, register, spelling, and usage.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/prescriptivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prescriptivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishUsage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s stupid "<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cybertruck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybertruck</span></a>" is going to go down in history as the 21st century's <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Edsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Edsel</span></a>. It's a ridiculous <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/gimmick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gimmick</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/vehicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vehicle</span></a> that a lot of people are going to regret buying, although many will be ensnared by the Sunk Cost <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a>, and continue defending it long after reality has set in.</p><p><a href="https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-tri-motor-s-rumored-98990-price-causes-people-to-cancel-reservations-223322.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">autoevolution.com/news/tesla-c</span><span class="invisible">ybertruck-tri-motor-s-rumored-98990-price-causes-people-to-cancel-reservations-223322.html</span></a></p>
Tanquist<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@dgar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dgar</span></a></span> <br>I love the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a>! This also illustrates the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MTG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTG</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fart</span></a> analogy about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/masks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>masks</span></a>. Individual molecules do not represent the greatest risk of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infection</span></a>. It's the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/saliva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>saliva</span></a>!</p>
Nando161<p>You should not be making fun of the rich <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Titanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Titanic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tourists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourists</span></a>' deaths just because they spent so much <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> on their tickets. That is the sunk <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a>.</p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedHerring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedHerring</span></a> fallacy. <br>"As a philosophy professor, this is how I explain the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallacy</span></a> to my students: If the argument is not going your opponent's way, a common strategy — though a fallacious and dishonorable one — is to divert attention from the real issue by raising an issue that is only tangentially related to the first."</p><p>As outlined in this piece, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> industry uses this tactic often. The examples include <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarbonCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonCapture</span></a> schemes.</p><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-o</span><span class="invisible">il-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/</span></a></p>