And finally he demands Judge Kaplan recuse himself, arguing he showed "extreme prejudice". Both that argument and his "no actual loss" theory are already being litigated in his pending appeal before the Second Circuit, which I wrote about here: www.citationneeded.news/issue-96/#sbf

What a vision of the future. All else aside, does anyone who doesn't directly profit from it, actually want this?

Absolute anti-financialization screed by Oren Cass in NYTs (paywall). I wish populists would start to take these arguments (which many of us in the academy have been making for years if not decades) more seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding prospect.org/economy/2025...

I expect to spend today staring at this: ‘we’ve gone from government suggesting that the state would subsidise undergraduate student loans by about 45p in the pound, to making a profit on them for that cohort’. A *profit* on student loans: everyone should read this. 🤯 wonkhe.com/blogs/gradua...

Over 11 MM ppl use cryptocurrencies in #Argentina, (over 20% of the population!) I explain the success of the crypto in Argentina, paying close attention to its intertwining with crisis. 🧵 Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coming Soon! FinTech Capital, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, accounts for the rise and ubiquity of fintech and its global transformation of everyday financial transactions. The book is out in July in the US, and in September in the UK. Available for pre-order here: tinyurl.com/bdz2pjn5

New @oii.ox.ac.uk and University of Kentucky study shows how ChatGPT amplifies global inequalities, with LLMs reflecting historic biases in training data. With thanks to @telegraph.co.uk for sharing the study. @geoplace.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Of especial interest for UK researchers, research institutes/organisations and/or partnerships with higher education expertise and the ability to measure social & cultural infrastructure. Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2

TOMORROW: Report Launch and Discussion 1:00-2:30PM GMT Guest Speakers: Matilda Fitzmaurice (@matildaf.bsky.social) Jay Todd (@jaytoddgla.bsky.social) Lekan Adekola Gillian Rose (@profgillian.bsky.social) Register: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3

Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social, September 2025 press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Pinfield newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...

I wrote a paper about Cryptofinance, and the ways the U.S. state has negotiated the consolidation of cryptocurrency trading in large platform firms. It traces the rise of FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried's firm) as it moves from Berkeley to Hong Kong to the Bahamas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Closures and mergers [of universities] are Labour policy, not a problem Labour policy wants to solve." ISRF Director @cnewf.bsky.social explains the logic behind the current UK University funding crisis and why it will be counterproductive mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...

It's Thatcher's fault. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

While we’re at it. Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’ We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?

1/3 The intensity of conflicts of interest, nepotism, and cronyism related to World Liberty Financial is shocking even for this administration.

@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social brilliantly employs Veblen's concept of capitalist sabotage to explain the political economy of U.S. tariffs lpeproject.org/blog/on-tari...

*CHINA ORDERS HALT TO BOEING JET DELIVERIES AS TRADE WAR EXPANDS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Horse imports could take a beating.

Capital controls next? It would be another boon for crypto- finance, which is clearly the Trump family's current obsession. I suspect Trump's desire to weaken the USD is not disconnected from his promotion of the crypto sector. www.ft.com/content/b1bf...

Nice description of the technical details and frictions in the physical gold trade between NY-LON & Switzerland. Good photos too! FT paywall... www.ft.com/content/2289...

Stablecoins are eurodollars. www.ft.com/content/d033...

The Rise of Bullshit Jobs in UK Universities academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Musk's cuts will be good for Thiel's Palantir. www.ft.com/content/b9f0...

You know you're in trouble as a critical scholar when you're waiting for capital to discipline the authoritarian.