Adam Minter
@AdamMinter
Bloomberg Opinion. Junkyard Planet. New book: 'Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale' available now: http://smarturl.it/secondhandbook
Usually SE Asia temporarily MN
Joined February 2009
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Pinned TweetJust finished chatting with a virtual book club (skype call), about my last book. So much fun, I want to do it again. So ... if you're a book club meeting virtually anywhere in the pandemic world, and you'd like a homebound guest author to join --- DM me. I'm game.
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Adam Minter RetweetedThe NBA's commitment to free speech and social activism has put it on a collision course with China, says
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"a picture of Elvis Presley getting a polio shot in 1956 that ran in hundreds of U.S. newspapers ... was widely credited with pushing the vaccine to young adults and teenagers." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/all-in-push-for-vaccine-in-u-s-raises-risk-virus-will-linger … via
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Adam Minter RetweetedThe UK bans sales of locked cellphones. Wonderful! Every country should do this. Locking is consumer-hostile and anticompetitive. https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/27/21535957/uk-ofcom-locked-carrier-phone-ban-ee-vodafone-tesco-mobile …
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Adam Minter RetweetedAs someone from Turkey, and has seen its collapse into autocracy, I think this is a bad idea. For when you change the rules of the game when those rules don't help you, you initiate a vicious cycle where all norms are eaten up by partisanship. And there is no good end to it.Show this thread
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This is excellent, on how the American (online) Culture War influences other English-speaking countries, often for the worse. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/internet-world-trapped-americas-culture-war/616799/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share … in my experience, malaysia.
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"The company plans to introduce humanoids at 1,500 outlets in Japan within three to four years." https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Army-of-avatar-robots-readies-to-invade-Japanese-job-market … finally, the future i was promised.
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Adam Minter RetweetedThis year, retailers have declared war on an unlikely enemy: glitter. The sparkly bits of plastic are being removed from gift bags, ornaments and other holiday baubles. But is a ban on glitter really going to save the environment?
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Adam Minter RetweetedWhen you think about it, insisting that Africa's secondhand traders adopt Europe's definition of "waste" or risk prosecution--in Europe--is a kind of colonialism. Waste colonialism.
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The War on (Christmas) Glitter will solve nothing. A front-loading washer, however, might. Allow me to explain. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-24/banning-glitter-won-t-save-the-oceans … me on microplastics for
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craziest thing i've read all week --- dylan intended 'lay lady lay' for ... barbara streisand.
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Well here's a great Covid-19-inspired idea --- in rural communities with few health resources and lousy broadband, turn the public library into a telehealth hub.
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For the record --- Josh is one of the most insightful and inventive thinkers about China, and about waste and recycling, that I've ever met. I've learned so much from him, and - if you read this book (or go to a junkyard with him) - so will you.
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Years ago my friend Josh was reading about Peking Opera in a Beijing library when he saw some recycling peddlers walk by. As he tells it, he was bored with the Opera, so he followed the peddlers. And now this book, out in Dec.
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Adam Minter RetweetedContinuing in my plugging of
@litfest_hk events (in my role as an adviser to the festival),@AdamMinter will be on the program as well, and he's as good a speaker, I think, as he is a writer (and he's a very good writer), details about his event here https://www.festival.org.hk/programme/rethinking-our-relationship-with-stuff-%e5%86%8d%e6%80%9d%e6%88%91%e5%80%91%e8%88%87%e4%ba%8b%e7%89%a9%e7%9a%84%e9%97%9c%e4%bf%8220201109/ …Show this thread -
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@AdamMinter with a calm, savage examination of Apple's recent recycling woes: https://bloom.bg/35hbg2R -
Adam Minter RetweetedFor years, Apple tried to convince consumers that it’s a greener and more sustainable company than its competitors. Increasingly, it’s fair to ask how sincere it is
