“Should China be regarded as a geopolitical threat to the liberal world order or as a Green Giant that is the best friend of the planet; the enemy in a new Cold War or the vanguard in the battle against the existential challenge of a warming biosphere? Or both?” #china #greentransition #climate

The revival of the Intervision Song Contest “is about more than pop & kitsch: It’s a soft power ploy by Putin, who has been using non-Western cultural events to strengthen Russia’s political alliances with countries in the Global South,” Lily Lynch reports. #russia #eurovision #intervision

Issue VI is shipping out! Have you gotten your copy yet? shop.noemamag.com

Like all binary oppositions, the US vs. China dichotomy that now shapes discussions and debates about the future of #AI is limited and limiting. There is a third way that deconstructs this binary. Check out the new @noemamag.com essay from @digitaldang.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

“AI sovereignty, as it currently plays out outside of the U.S.-China vacuum, is not a banner‐waving claim to territorial control; rather, it manifests itself as the quiet right to decide what counts as knowledge & how that knowledge shows up in the world.” — @digitaldang.bsky.social #ai #aistacks

The third stack is here. A path for ai that isn’t the stale U.S.–China binary, but something assembled, sovereign, and stubbornly local. My essay in Noema: www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

‘a historical sensibility is not about memorizing dates and facts. It is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context & aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.’

> It arrives fully formed, optimized for attention rather than meaning, producing a kind of semantic sludge, posts that look like language yet say almost nothing. @noemamag.com

@noemamag.com: "The Last Days Of Social Media. Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion. @digitaljim.bsky.social "At first glance, the feed looks familiar, a seamless carousel of “For You” updates." www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“Xi deftly appropriated a celebration of the historical moment that gave birth to the liberal world order to signal its encroaching displacement.” —Nathan Gardels #china #xijinping #russia #putin #india #modi

“We crave certainty, especially in the face of tragedy, & are quick to weave disparate facts into a coherent, & often sinister, narrative.” —Francis Gavin #history #historians

This essay has renewed a little cautious optimism within me.

This has been a super-popular piece for @noemamag.com and I can't help but wonder how many people click on this wondering if they can trade in one of their kidneys for some crypto www.noemamag.com/how-much-is-...

Issue VI is on its way to you! Haven’t ordered your copy yet? Get it here: shop.noemamag.com #print #magazines #noema

The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment & infrastructure development, @bentleyallan.bsky.social argues.

"The feed no longer surprises but sedates, and in that sedation, something quietly breaks, and social media no longer feels like a place to be; it is a surface to skim." @jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“Under Trump, America is joining the ranks of state-managed capitalist societies that intervene in the private economy as part of an industrial strategy to keep their nations competitive & prospering.” —Nathan Gardels #trump #nvidia #maga

My essay for @noemamag.com, about the act of *not* walking home from Istanbul in 2012, has been selected for the Best Sports Writing of 2025. I am now officially a sports writer, much to my surprise!

RIP SoMe (as we know it). Great reflections by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social in @noemamag.com "The problem is not just the rise of fake material, but the collapse of context and the acceptance that truth no longer matters as long as our cravings for colors and noise are satisfied." #technology

We're honored to have a piece by @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social featured in this!

Morning-coffee reading, entering the Uzbek desert with its vanishing saline inland sea from the Southern California desert, not far from our own. Missed this from @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social & @noemamag.com back in January (when I might not have sweated so much while reading, as the sun rises).

“Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins.” — @jamesosullivan.bsky.social #socialmedia #attentioneconomy #aislop

“To help navigate the perilous & promising rapids of oncoming times, @berggruen.org has launched a new podcast: @futurologypod.bsky.social.” Give it a listen to see what the likes of @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, @slaughteram.bsky.social & @drfeifei.bsky.social think the future has in store.

Issue VI is off to the printers & on pre-sale now. Grab a copy: shop.noemamag.com #print #magazines

“Building a stage worthy of God is one of humankind’s most ancient obsessions. But in the West at least, it is a dying art.” — @johnwlast.bsky.social #religion #architecture #churches

🎧 Listen to the podcast! @wired.com's @lmatsakis.bsky.social, @cato.org's Tad DeHaven & @noemamag.com's @nilsgilman.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the recent deals between the U.S. government and private companies and why experts say such deals are a step towards fascism.

"The misinformation paradigm, for all its limitations, has shown that rapid, large-scale coordination around democratic challenges is possible."

🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking with @wired.com's @lmatsakis.bsky.social, @cato.org's Tad DeHaven and @noemamag.com's @nilsgilman.bsky.social about the recent deals between the U.S. government and private companies. ❓ What do you think about the government owning shares of private companies? 📻 Listen:

WED at 9AM: @wired.com's @lmatsakis.bsky.social, @cato.org's Tad DeHaven and @noemamag.com's @nilsgilman.bsky.social join to talk about the recent deals between the U.S. government and private companies. ❓ What do you think of the U.S. government taking ownership stakes in private companies?

Scott & I with a new piece in @noemamag.com We argue the “misinformation paradigm” has: – Overstated online misinformation’s role in politics – Ignored much of what we know about communication – Directed attention to strategies ill-suited to today’s environment

“The last decade has made clear that we aren’t going to fact-check or inoculate our way toward a healthier civic culture.” — @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen #misinformation #disinformation #democracy

Always love @noemamag.com for provocative longreads and this is a really cool one on the perils of the sky, real and imagined.

It's Seabird Sunday, your weekly round up of interesting links shared by users on the Seabird app (which you should join too!). First up, traveling to Thailand with @noemamag.com to explore a possible future of eating bugs: www.noemamag.com/would-you-ea...

What might replace American lawns? Entomologist Douglas Tallamy advocates for what he calls “homegrown national parks” — seeding native plants (oaks are an excellent choice for most places, he said) and reducing mowing and chemicals. —via @olliemilman.bsky.social, @noemamag.com

“Chemtrail conspiracists are not wrong to sense encroaching asphyxiation, a sky looming with danger.” —Leo Kim #chemtrails #conspiracy #geoengineering

A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology, Phil Nolan argues. #aipersona #ai

For @noemamag.com, I explore insects as a viable protein in the face of climate change.

My second @leaflet.pub publication...! The Daily Planet consists of (daily?) links to planet themed essays, images or videos along with light commentary. The first #dailyplanet is a link to an article in one of my favorite sources of planetary information: @noemamag.com dailyplanet.leaflet.pub

What is God? A recent lecture from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk prompted Nathan Gardels to wonder if there is a link between the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, Hegel’s dialectics of historical movement & the entangled properties of quantum physics. #god #hegel #quantumphysics

“I tried to fix my face to disguise the horror at the prospect of potentially having to consume a worm or ant egg or beetle larva, instead opting to outwardly display an appreciation for the local culture.” —Rebecca Root #insects #foodindustry #bugs #diet

GDP doesn't see your TikToks, your ChatGPT prompts, or your free labour at self-checkouts In @noemamag.com, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social argues we need a total rethink of how we measure the economy in a digital world. www.noemamag.com/the-critical...

Fight the brain rot — take the time to slowly read something long on how AI-laden social media is fundamentally remaking our minds. #socialmedia #aislop

“Statistics matter. They are the only lens available to governments and citizens to understand and monitor what is happening to the broader economy.” - @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social in @noemamag.com. Hear Diane talk about her new book with ESCoE Director Rebecca Riley: youtu.be/srMthHRBjdY

Monday's Most Read # 2 - The Urgent Need For Revolutionizing Economic Statistics | NOEMA @noemamag.com link.theoverheadwire.com/p8hqy

Thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for including my recent @noemamag.com piece in this week's day-early #ScholarSunday roundup! You can read it here: www.noemamag.com/the-gulf-wor...

🧐''The roots of this American obsession with a neat lawn are surprisingly shallow, initially imported from European sensibilities...'' (Oliver Milman in @noemamag.com) www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-... #Water #Climate #Systemsthinking

“Who could have expected that it would be a MAGA-dominated U.S. Congress that is blazing an incipient path to universal basic capital in the world’s largest economy?” —Nathan Gardels #maga #inequality #universalbasiccapital

"Living in a digital realm poses a serious problem for measuring what’s going on in the economy.... Free services are increasingly replacing things that previously did have a price & were therefore accounted for in GDP." Alas, instead of fixing this problem, the regime plans just to cook the books.

I’ve written for @noemamag.com about the need for a different approach to economic statistics - the data isn’t ‘rigged’ but it hasn’t kept up with the changing economy www.noemamag.com/the-critical...

Thank you @noemamag.com ‬for publishing my essay with James Manyika in your latest issue, Noema VI: Paradigm Shifts. In the piece, we explore the five interrelated paradigm shifts that not only inform our development of AI but change our understanding of intelligence.