Not a cultural studies reader, but devoured this book over the last week. As someone coming of age in 2000 this was particularly interesting as most of the pop artists mentioned in it are familiar and indeed...it's the same folks that have been around already 15+ years ago.

@greatdismal.bsky.social talks about "the jackpot" in some of his novels not a single breakdown, but a mess of small things adding up, of unintended consequences. Reading this made me shiver, and feel that this is a harbinger of exactly that pattern.

What if this is not "falling for it", but pumping up the prices of the falling AI stocks in her fund?

Hele goede kanttekeningen bij het Wennink-rapport. En een kattenplaatje. rodecijfers.substack.com/p/wennink-ee...

No (institutional) investor wants to be saddled with stranded assets, but especially the Dutch don't want to be "under water"

LLM was fed by all the text data available, and spews out this. This means that in the texts it was trained on, this was one of the most commonly invoked strategy for CDS sellers? Oh dear.

Recommended book for students of economic history/political economy of the US. Pierces through the narrative that there was a clean break between some mythical Keynesian era (postwar-70s) and a neoliberal era (80s-today) 1/2 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Finally, my previously promised thread 🧵 on lessons from teaching a grad course on "Qualitative Methods" for the first time in 10 years. Sit tight and... 1/n

Pity that this master programme 'environmental humanities' won't see the light of the day. I understand the budgetary constraints the faculty is facing (and the political context atm in NL). But it's somewhat ironic that in communicating this the language of ecology is used (duurzaamheid) 1/3

You could say the same thing about inflation: difficult to define, hence difficult to measure, and thus difficult to control.

We hebben uw hulp nodig voor ons pilot-onderzoek! Het kost maar enkele minuten leidenuniv.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Treffende omschrijving

Imagine you are aware that what you plan on doing might be perceived as Bond-villian-level evil and stupid and yet you want to go ahead because 🤑🤑🤑

Swap Beijing for Berlin, rewind 12 years and this is - except for subsidies - pretty much your eurozone crisis aftermath discussion in the EU. Germany ran huge surpluses thx to suppressing domestic demand and a structurally undervalued Euro for Germany; surpluses recycled anywhere but Germany.

VVD milieu beleid

People who fly private can fork out an additional 2000 euros, no prob. This does nothing other than allow people who can afford to pollute.

Innovation in fintech is mainly finding euphemisms for describing undesirable financial situations.

Anybody checked on Mark Rutte? He was right that we would get an outcome (on defense) with trump we could never get with Obama and Merkel...but I'm not sure it's the outcome his audience at Leiden Uni had in mind. www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Adults wondering what gen alpha's dada stuff like brain-rot or 6-7 means, and why kids supposedly mindlessly repeat it. But same adults forget that over the last 15 yrs, there were moments in which (almost overnight) everything became/everyone was doing: - Big data - blockchain - IoT - web3 - AI

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The parallels to the GFC are eerie, just everything more amplified: opaque funding with little chance for investors to redeem, with assets (GPUs) supposedly backing all of this that depreciate too fast to service debt/make investors whole.

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Remember that one of the popular narratives around GFC was that ppl who couldn't afford houses got mortgages (less popular one was that the systemic risk built up in fin system due to instruments that were entangled and opaque). Wouldn't be surprised if we get a redo of that, but this time with

If you wanted to know if Klarna is engaging in factoring, here is what Google AI would tell you (question was does Klarna engage in factoring (left) and does Klarna buy invoice from merchant at a discount (middle)?). And screenshot on the right is what its CEO says in an interview.

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Setting the stage for "we were all in this together so no one is to blame" when the bubble bursts.

arguments that posit that equity markets somehow discipline politics by punishing investments made due to political connections (rather than fundamentals), or that posit that equity markets dislike political uncertainty... should be treated like bond vigilantes arguments: as completely bogus.

Vrijheid en eigen verantwoordelijkheid is als je zetels wint en op basis daarvan subsidie krijgt van de overheid? Duidelijk.

For anyone wondering how we got here, read Mark Mazower's "On Antisemitism" www.penguin.co.uk/books/464187...

Ik begrijp nu wel waarom er bij Geesteswetenschappen 150 FTE weg moet. ten eerste is het gewoon geld op door de miljoenen die er twee jaar lang aan fopbeveiliging zijn uitgegeven bij Wijnhaven en ten tweede wordt er bij ons ook Arabisch gesproken. En nog veel meer andere enge talen.

Can think of at least one other historical persona who sat in a concrete basement below ground, saying weird things till the end.

Klaver trying to win over VVD by recycling their campaign slogans from. 2017...

Hoe stellen zich mensen zo'n interne evaluatie bij deze een-mans partij voor? Een minuutje interne monoloog??

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In dit stuk komt "populisme" 12 keer voor, "populist" 11 keer. Maar welke definitie van populisme hier gebruikt wordt blift een raadsel... Mamdami is niet anti-pluralistisch/illiberaal...

Reading Mazower's "the Greek revolution" my internal reading voice sometimes switches from dispassionate to the narrator voice of Arrested Development, thanks to gems like this. I can really picture the "po-po" part 😆

❌"greetings stranger, I'm the granddaughter of late prime minister of XXX living in exile. Can you send me some 💵? I'll pay u back once I get access to my grandpa's funds" ✅ "Greetings Blackrock, I have invoices from BelgaCom, can you send me 100 million dollars? belgacomics is going to pay u back"

Screenshot with meme potential for the upcoming sequel to the "does NL need an electoral threshold" discussion

Scrap the either/or, might turn out that both assumptions are compatible. Disgruntled pvv voters went to even more extreme FvD and it's carbon copy for people who work in accounting (JA21)?

Before jumping to conclusions about the disloyalty of pvdaGL voters or loyalty of VVD voters, perhaps best to wait for the vote migration Sankey diagrams (which, given the number of parties, will probably look like a spaghetti junction)

Either Wilders doesn't want want to govern (which is the logical conclusion of his strategy to focus on the hardcore of pvv voters), or he is assuming that potential PVV voters are more radical on migration than other parties assume.

The car crisis tops today’s EU summit but leaders keep staring at the wrong problem The issue isn’t the 2035 engine ban - it’s demand falling off a cliff today With @sandertordoir.bsky.social and @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social, we show why flipping regs won’t help - and what the EU can do instead.

En hier is de definitieve line-up.

Wat een sterke documentaire npo.nl/start/serie/...

The VVD's intentions are now very clear: they don't seek to govern, but instead shouting from the sidelines. thus in addition to copying the content of the PVV now they also embrace the PVV's "governing" strategy.

Dutch gov recognizes the drawbacks of derisking private investments for public utilities and thus decides to own/finance the investment itself. Unfortunately it's an investment into ☢️that won't have a future and will only generate a return if heavy (polluting) industry consume the electricity, too.

Looking at this exchange, reminded of Daalder's anecdote (supposedly) Dahl telling him: "you know, your country theoretically cannot exist"