* IMF says taking swift action to achieve 25% cut in greenhouse gases by end of decade will cost less than failing to act.*

Since this goes against the pressure from powerful planet roasters, I think we can trust it confidently.

Robert Reich: *A personal question to powerful people who continue to deny the results of the 2020 election: What do you tell yourself in private?*

Reich cannot expect an actual answer, but his speculations about the possibilities are interesting.

People who use a digital method to pay for parking are contributing to a system of tracking which endangers human rights and democracy. Occasionally, some of them also get scammed and then screwed.

US businesses have been inventing "holidays" as excuses to get people to spend money for more than a century.

About 10 of the many examples.

I decided long ago to disregard all the holidays that pressure people to give gifts.

I would not "celebrate" Record Store Day, but I do wish there were a good record store in Boston, with a big selection of classical and world records — I would visit it from time to time to look for interesting CDs to buy. The CD is the last media substrate that was invented without malfeatures to restrict people or impose nonfree technology, and I am happy to use it.

Meanwhile: Out, out, damned Spotify!

It has the same injustices as Amazon e-books(PDF), and even one of those injustices is too much.

*Judge says Walmart and CVS must face lawsuit for placing homeopathic nostrums with actual medicines.*

Hooray!