I wonder if we are seeing a transition from a hegemonic to a despotic configuration of social reproduction in the 🇺🇸. This matters for the effectiveness of strategies of resistance. In the former, ideology and interests are central mechanisms of reproduction; 🧵

Very cool paper here. I'm particularly intrigued by the finding that population size negatively predicts innovation since that has a nice resonance with some of our recent work (doi.org/10.1098/rstb...).

Capital strikes back (unlike most anyone else).

fyi www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My talk at the terrific MAIN (Montreal AI and Neuroscience) meeting on cognition, neuroscience and AI linking Bayesian causal learning and empowerment in reinforcement learning. youtube.com/watch?v=qrwB...

From energy to care: citizen collectives are reshaping local society in the Netherlands. A new report just published by CollectieveKracht shows both their growing impact and persistent challenges. Read here: https://ow.ly/Yom850XJu2v #CollectiveAction #Volunteer #AcademicResearch

…and accountability? www.obviouslywrong.org/p/ragi-agi-t...

@nateela.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1. Does the boom involve more than just a run-up in asset prices? 2. Is the investment boom financed primarily by issuing debt? 3. How exactly will this technology be used? www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

My co-authors and I are happy to present our framework "Collective Intelligence as Collective Information Processing (CIP)." Here we propose decomposing different information processing mechanisms to unify disparate phenomena traditionally classified as "collective intelligence."

Why political science can’t grasp Trumpism.

1/5 Some humanoid companies are admitting things are harder than the hype suggests. `Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms.' www.wsj.com/tech/ai/huma...

A good write-up from The Debrief. The only thing I'd tweak, ironically, is the headline! thedebrief.org/new-study-de...

The Netherlands is a global living lab for climate adaptation. 🇳🇱 Our report on 'Water en Bodem Sturend' (WBS) analyzes 7 major housing building projects to reveal the tensions of translating policy into action. Key finding: ambition only lands when flexible guidelines become local requirements. 🏗️

The 2025 Reith Lectures argues that small, committed groups can spark moral revolutions, emphasizing the importance of perseverance and long-term vision. The third of four lectures argues for a new "realist utopia," calling for people to join what he labels" a conspiracy of decency."

Everything in its Path is one of the two of three most foundational texts in my understanding of disasters and how they impact people and communities. Erickson was a true giant in our field. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

"The more China helps countries make the most of what cheap solar offers, and the more it defrays some of the unavoidable downsides for governments and state-owned generators, the better it will be for its future export markets—and the greater the amount of soft power it will earn"

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

"Our findings confirm a negative association between managerial hierarchy and organizational culture strength. Multiple correlational tests show support for functional equivalence as a plausible explanation for the observed negative correlation."

Crypto and economic nihilism on.ft.com/4pCsOhj

This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time

10 years after the Paris climate pact, there's some good-ish news. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what deindustrialization in a carbon shock therapy setting looks like. If the state doesn’t do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses downward, private equity will do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses upward (and out of country). on.ft.com/3WNWnA9

Why aliens might not “speak physics” the same way we do If an alien species achieved interstellar communication or even interstellar travel, can we assume they've developed the same laws of physics as us? Maybe not, and here's why. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #aliens #space #nature

Babies born today may well live to see more than 6 feet of additional sea level rise in their lifetimes. Walk any beach or port and imagine the normal water level being six feet higher. Then imagine how much higher the storm surges will be.

Absolutely fantastic study comparing anonymized outputs of climate analytics models. Everyone loves to bag on flood (rightly so), but can we talk about how the spread here is "30mph breeze to Cat 5 hurricane" www.fca.org.uk/publication/... HT @ruarirhodes.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/4zNL... How ideas about extinction are warped by timescales and politics.

As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system. @adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Once upon a time, there lived a brilliant scholar known as Ibn Sina, he inspired many thinkers, including Thomas Aquinas. He was not only a great physician but also a philosopher who understood the deep connection between the mind and the body.