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  1. "Fondomonte, a subsidiary of Saudi dairy giant Almarai Co., held four separate lease agreements in the Butler Valley Basin to grow alfalfa that feeds livestock in the Gulf kingdom. In October, Arizona’s State Land Department notified Fondomonte that three of its four leases in the Butler Valley Basin would not be renewed. Fondomonte was simultaneously notified that the fourth lease would be canceled as well."
    apnews.com/article/arizona-gro
    #PrinceBoneSaw

  2. Having had some success over the years in making change on Twitter, it was difficult for me to delete the app. What pushed me finally to X it out was the realization I was enabling #princebonesaw. Now we know that before the Elon disaster, Jack was already assisting the Saudis in gross human rights violations (cf. The Guardian).

    Audre Lorde famously wrote that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. I'm not sure this is always true, but it appears so with social media.

  3. CW: Long thread/5

    This #VenturePredation let investors - like #PrinceBoneSaw - cash out to suckers, leaving behind a money-losing business that had to invent ever-sweatier accounting tricks and implausible narratives to keep the suckers on the line while they blew town. A bezzle, in other words:

    pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fak

    Uber is a true bezzle innovator, coming up with all kinds of fairy tales and sci-fi gimmicks to explain how they would convert their money-loser into a profitable business.

    5/