The financialization stage of this hegemonic cycle is truly off the charts.

Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/anduri...

extreme us wealth inequality is the *cause* of why ai rollout looks like class war, not the inevitable outcome of said technology. Eg China is using the tech differently, not just to attack and degrade certain classes of workers

Enjoyed talking to @richardhames.bsky.social as part of the new @novaramedia.com complete with ever-expanding board of connections, our attempt to do a materialist analysis of Musk’s strange behavior—-though @susglickman.bsky.social on the last one was a hard act to follow youtu.be/hn89XxHJLQ0?...

cover goes so hard

How bad is it? Well. Qatar Energy just announced they may have to declare Force Majeure on long-term contracts **FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS**. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mol...

We need 4th wave so bad….

Update: Dolores Huerta has released a statement. In it, she confirms the Times's reporting, and supports the other women who have come forward. "I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here."

Super interesting paper showing that even a “perfectly capable” AI could contribute to a breakdown of knowledge transmission and a reduction in total aggregate skills in the economy From @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Kong & Ozdaglar www.nber.org/papers/w34910

Giving a talk on the history of quantum at the university of amsterdam April 8! www.ivir.nl/events/quant...

The deadline for this has been extended- please send around and apply!

the weather

New interview with @novaramedia.com youtu.be/tTWUeUwKavg?...

New interview with @novaramedia.com youtu.be/tTWUeUwKavg?...

added some new privacy/opsec guides for organizers here (as always tell me what I am missing) are.na/rebecca-will...

You'll never guess who, in recent years, acquired a private credit firm, an infrastructure fund manager, and a private markets analytics firm whose data create the narrative that it's 'not enough'

What does Israeli-American liberation look like in Iran? It looks like a girl's elementary school in Hormozgan getting bombed and killing over 50 little girls.

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

🛠️New package! All week, we are going to be uncorking stories about the obsolete, the out of date, the decommissioned. First up: say goodbye to your little friend, the internet's undersea cables www.wired.com/story/say-go...

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

In the fight between US and China over the Panama Canal, the winner is….Denmark. www.ft.com/content/a2a9...

right?

Important stuff from @leeharris.ft.com on how the US life insurance industry loaded up on private credit www.ft.com/content/b6be...

right?

NEW: 537 Research Assistants for SUNY Buffalo are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social

world where post office did email (via private contract) was still possible 1971

How Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne, a onetime PR man and adviser to David Cameron Epstein guided him in setting up Hedosophia (now one of UK’s most important start-up backers) and even appointed him to one of his own investment vehicles www.ft.com/content/8b04...

2/2] Grad workers’ labor can’t be replaced, and those of us who work with them should refuse to help the administration undermine a strike. Penn can settle this by negotiating a fair contract today. If you work at Penn, sign now to pledge that you won’t be a strikebreaker tinyurl.com/NoStrikebrea...

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

I talked w/ uniformed health workers about their deployments to prisons where ICE holds immigrants. ICE's operation is especially secretive at Guantanamo -- the place where America flouted its own rules to torture detainees post 9/11. @wired.com and @kffhealthnews.org (no paywall)

man, wtf? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

sorry what's this about marc andreessen giving the nsa a way to eavesdrop on skype in the epstein files

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Oh hey, we ended shareholder primacy?

The inspector general is investigating whether ICE’s surveillance is legal. Even if this doesn’t result in any changes it will likely result in more details about how these systems work and that will hopefully be useful: www.404media.co/inspector-ge...

Friend of mine interviewed Khun Bedu, the commander of the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force. give it a read if your interested in Burma adventuresinsea.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger. migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

new interview ! www.novembermag.com/content/susa...

"Thielworld...have advanced a similar criticism of the neoliberal state, bemoaning its declining interventions in manufacturing and research and lambasting the legacy defense firms, often nicknamed “primes,” for their sclerosis, inefficiency,& alleged monopolistic behavior" bsky.app/profile/susg...

lmao

new interview ! www.novembermag.com/content/susa...

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

SCOOP: ICE Has Failed to Disclose Info About 8 Immigrants’ Deaths, Defying Congress Trump has ICE detaining more people than ever. The agency keeps failing to report information about immigrants’ deaths in its custody, writes @justinglawe.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/ice-immigr...

Narrator: one month later www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saw this and it’s just wild

"Will Trump’s turn to economic nationalism, unchecked executive rule, and fiscal profligacy cause the greenback to lose its reserve currency dominance?" Economic historian Nick Mulder on the two dimensions of de-dollarization: speed and width. weltinnenpolitik.substack.com/p/two-dimens...