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Called it! - classic Facebook move on Thxgiving eve. Unsealed nearly every redaction 233 pages in 40+ state AGs lawsuit alleging FB knowingly harmed children's mental health with addiction for profit. Email me, I'll send to you. Yellow = newly unsealed. 20 tweet summary here. /1 https://t.co/pxZZJTx1Um
Tweets From Jason Kint
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Sociologist Jens Beckert notes that finance always needs to craft stories about the steps that will transform the present into a specific financial future. Synthetic, made-up assets are constructed through a process of “narrative transformation”(37) that, in turn, transforms socially the participants in the economic activity related to these assets.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
The way value is generated on the stock exchange depends of course less on what a company ‘really does’, and more on perceptions of, and beliefs about, its (future) performance. In capitalism, that is to say, all that is solid melts into PR, and late capitalism is defined at least as much by this ubiquitous tendency towards PR-production as it is by the imposition of market mechanisms.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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