John Conor Ryan

As you read: A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25B for privacy deception tied to Cambridge Analytica. In August, 46 other states and 2 territories settled their own Cambridge Analytica claims against Meta for about $459M combined. Same company. Related conduct.

And even record awards are measured in tens of billions. The external costs of industry run to trillions of dollars a year. Our count at Calx already passes $10T, and expect them to top $30T/year. Courtroom lotteries can't close that kind of gap.

As you read: A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25B for privacy deception tied to Cambridge Analytica. In August, 46 other states and 2 territories settled their own Cambridge Analytica claims against Meta for about $459M combined. Same company. Related conduct.

That's nearly $12,000 per resident in New Mexico and under $2 everywhere else. A 6,000-fold range. That's wild The judge found the law would allow more than $219B, then set $25B without explaining how. The other states negotiated. The number followed the venue, not the harm. That's nonsense.

The well-argued case for shutting down business schools by a B-school professor. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o... . . . from which a few lines: I’ve come to a grim conclusion: "The problem with business schools is not repairable misalignment but the design itself.

Counting the true strength of an economy, requires a new approach. A tiny thread and a link to our work. #econsky #greensky It’s time to measure what growth really costs

When a chemical plant injures its workers or pollutes a community, the costs of dealing with the damage can actually increase GDP. Medical treatment, environmental cleanup, and other responses to industrial harm all generate measurable economic activity.

Counting the true strength of an economy, requires a new approach. A tiny thread and a link to our work. #econsky #greensky It’s time to measure what growth really costs

What the anger at AI data centers and the Suncor v Boulder case now at SCOTUS have in common is that industry's grossest externalities are already on the agenda. But, they're caught between justified anger and ill-equipped judiciaries. This is not a path to rational resolution. #econsky

There needs to be a better way. Understand that industry's externalized harms already total an astounding total of $30 trillion per year, equivalent to nearly 30% of the world's entire economic output.

We know a black hole's mass to a few percent, but not our own harms within a factor of 3. Uncounted industrial externalities cost roughly $30 trillion a year, about 30% of the global economy. No one seems to have totaled them. #econsky www.calx.info/ledger/f3eu0...

An accounting boundary works like an event horizon: costs don't vanish, they just leave the books. Harms fall hardest on the nearest and weakest, and they grow by feeding: once dumping costs is cheap, firms that don't get outcompeted. Unlike a real black hole, much of what's lost is gone for good.

We know a black hole's mass to a few percent, but not our own harms within a factor of 3. Uncounted industrial externalities cost roughly $30 trillion a year, about 30% of the global economy. No one seems to have totaled them. #econsky www.calx.info/ledger/f3eu0...

Junko Yoshida quoting and noting the absurdity of Jensen Huang naively (?) asking if any successful firm had ever knowingly launched an unsafe product to market. (pause for gasps & laughter) @junko-paris.bsky.social isn't really here. His article is junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/jensen-hua...

Examples: The idea that corporations will, in their own self-interest, not ship unsafe products, as this author notes. Coal's human health harms alone exceed the industry's gross revenues - let alone the costs of contributions to the climate crisis. The entire tobacco industry. / more

Junko Yoshida quoting and noting the absurdity of Jensen Huang naively (?) asking if any successful firm had ever knowingly launched an unsafe product to market. (pause for gasps & laughter) @junko-paris.bsky.social isn't really here. His article is junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/jensen-hua...

What is offensive about the gerontocracy is how transparently it reveals the rot at the core of the American political system, how plainly it demonstrates that our elected leaders do not serve the people, but serve only their own gratification, only their own power. @moiradonegan.bsky.social