The @cornellupress.bsky.social has published Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft by @jonrlindsay.bsky.social on Amazon Kindle. Congratulations! www.amazon.com.au/Age-Deceptio...

Notes on Australian Neo-Nazis and Evading Hate Speech Laws An ABC News article and a brief response from unpublished research. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... www.alexburns.net/p/notes-on-a...

The flipside of having peak experiences (Abraham Maslow) is experiencing relative deprivation (Ted Robert Gurr). How and why the New Year period can fracture your personal relationships. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Financial Literacy needs to be taught in Australian schools. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... moneysmart.gov.au ocw.mit.edu/search/?q=pe...

Today part II: - Richard D. James' creativity for recording Aphex Twin albums - Keith Jarrett's bestselling Koln Concert improvised for ECM on 24th January 1975 - The US semi-hidden reading crisis - The promise of AI education www.alexburns.net/p/on-improvi...

Two key BoJ books (the first an analytical study; the second a policymaker memoir of crisis management and implementing monetary policy): www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... Both are published by excellent US university presses.

10 Friday AM Reads: -5 Reasons Gold Is Surging Toward $5,000 an Ounce -Economic Legacy of DOGE -Real AI Talent War: Plumbers & Electricians -Gen X + Millennials Will Inherit Trillions in Real Estate -Fracking Goes Global -The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV ritholtz.com/2026/01/10-f...

Today: - What links Prime Minister Mark Carney; Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel; and the influential philosopher Alain Badiou - Why slow transport in Australia is an historical failure to use systems thinking (such as causal loop diagrams) www.alexburns.net/p/when-the-p...

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman has a new collection out on 25th May 2026 called On Strategy and Strategists: Collected Essays 2014-2024 (OUP USA, 2026). www.amazon.com.au/Strategists-... www.global.oup.com/academic/pro... www.kcl.ac.uk/people/profe...

A16Z's Ryan McEntush: Everything is Computer. a16z.com/everything-i...

10 Thursday AM Reads -The Great Credit Convergence -The Emperor’s New Oil Wealth -On the Legality of the Venezuela Invasion -A tale of 2 Ralphs — and the reality of a K-shaped economy -America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza -The Worst Shot Ever Taken ritholtz.com/2026/01/10-t...

Why did the Clinton administration fail to prevent North Korea from "going nuclear"? A new book from US diplomat Joel S. Wit & @yalepress.bsky.social: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... www.amazon.com.au/Fallout-Insi... www.stimson.org/ppl/joel-wit/

A key article by MIT Professor Vipin Narang on nuclear proliferation (tonight's re-reading): dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ha... Professor Narang's latest book: www.amazon.com.au/Seeking-Bomb...

Charles Perrow (normal accidents); Scott N. Sagan (the limits of safety); & Eric Schlosser (nuclear C3 failure: command, control & communications) have all written field-defining books on risks. www.amazon.com.au/Normal-Accid... www.amazon.com.au/Limits-Safet... www.amazon.com.au/Command-Cont...

This thorough and substantive handbook on apocalypticism and millennialism is now available from Bloomsbury. Includes a chapter by me on conspiracism and millennialism. One to recommend to your library. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

I'm yet to read Anthony King's recent book @quinnslobodian.com & @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social: thanks for your insightful analysis. Dr Armin Krishnan (East Carolina University) wrote a book on this for Routledge in 2009. www.amazon.com.au/Killer-Robot... politicalscience.ecu.edu/about/facult...

I sat in on a Bloomberg sales presentation whilst at Victoria University - in which I first learned how its trade execution engine works. Most Technical Analysis is thus apophenia (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness). I later learned the basics of a Bloomberg Terminal at Bond University.

Anything involving TEQSA & universities @beneltham.bsky.social will involve a dance (at times improvised, and at other times, scripted or well known - as per Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister episodes) around regulation. Witholding funds requires stronger powers - and probably Ministerial guidance.

This is not unexpected @beneltham.bsky.social given who lobbied for the RC. If possible, I will provide a submission based on as yet unpublished research on antisemitism and ideological indoctrinability (a different research program to social cohesion - I approach it as social stratification).

Today's update: - Compellance based brinkmanship on #Greenland & #Venezuela. - Investor-state dispute settlement. - Australia's new Royal Commission on countering antisemitism & strengthening social cohesion. - Quentin Tarantino & Martin Shkreli give advice. www.alexburns.net/p/compellanc...

Today's update: - Prediction Markets on #Venezuela. - Using abductive reasoning in intelligence analysis. - Jeffrey Pfeffer on cultivating organisational power. - The people who engage in food stamp / welfare fraud in the United States. www.alexburns.net/p/power-in-2...

I re-watched the first half of The Smartest Guys In The Room today. - Securitisation (financial engineering) was key. - 'Risk On' trader culture fell prey to Risk of Ruin (gambler's fallacy). - Deregulated markets illustrated Money Scripts (Brad Klontz). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeUu...

Asked by two people about #Venezuela today. Talked about the Noam Chomsky famous quote about the United States being able to pursue its own interests alone as a Great Power in the global system. Told US SOF story: 5GW doctrinal update. Labrador Puppy asleep on my feet, in the Australian heat.

Today's SubstackInc update: - Digital scams. - The second Trump administration pursues its Monroe doctrine sphere of influence. - A new documentary on Holocaust / Shoah survivor Elie Wiesel - An Errol Morris film on Dimensional Fund Advisors. www.alexburns.net/p/digital-sc...

Today's SubstackInc update: - Post-Maduro scenarios for #Venezuela. - The Days Ahead (2025): an independent film about a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom. - Hedley Bull (the English School) & the anarchical society. - How institutional quants think. www.alexburns.net/p/the-days-a...

Today's SubstackInc update: - US SOF Delta Force's surgical strike in Venezuela. - Reflections on futures studies insights from over 20 years ago. - On Nobel laureate poet W.B. Yeats. - NYU Stern's 2026 syllabi. - Reading Palantir's Alex Karp. www.alexburns.net/p/the-econom...

Today's SubstackInc update: - Financial Crash signals for 2026. - Catalyst events for industry changes in 2026. - Venezuela as a geopolitical flashpoint. - Free education resources on negotiation; social theory; and technological humanities. www.alexburns.net/p/end-of-yea...

Today's Substack update: - Jim Chanos shorts AI financiers. - Werner Herzog's documentary Wheel of Time (2003). - A bunch of talks by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the Kalachakra Tantra. - On Joan Didion's new journalism / literature. www.alexburns.net/p/shorting-ai

Today's SubstackInc update: - The BBC series The Great Philosophers. - Two new books on antimemetics. - Talks and documentaries on cybercrime, cult brainwashing / thought reform, de-dollarisation, & history's role in the future. www.alexburns.net/p/the-great-...

Today's update: - On Jordan Peterson's personality psychology and other clinicians I have studied. - Former colleague Darren Sharp on antisemitism and the path forward for Australia's Jewish community. - Howard Bloom & Nick Mamatas interviews. www.alexburns.net/p/on-persona...

Hello, world. I followed the advice of programmer and archaeo-astronomy researcher Pat Hardy and am now on Bluesky.