This implies some are not.

We've been asked while discussing the book whether Musk hadn't fallen out with the president—the president he is traveling to China with this week.

📆 Tues. 5/12 @ 7PM: "Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast" cohost Dylan Gottlieb joins us in store to discuss his new book, "Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York", in conversation with Professor Quinn Slobodian. More info: buff.ly/mVkiFv5

Amazing account of a judge at the International Criminal Court at the Hague being locked out of all US tech after issuing a warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is a great opportunity: 2 year fellowship at public institution in New York. moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu/programs/pos...

The Underbaby sounds like a critically acclaimed first novel that did not sell well

In this section @quinnslobodian.com talks about Musk's desire to get rid of legacy media and create a "vertically integrated ideological stack" of communication tech for propaganda purposes. (This obviously aligns closely with the Dark Enlightenment push to kill legacy media and create their own)

The latest episode of the wonderful @techwontsave.us podcast is a must listen/watch. A bunch of fantastic insights from @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com into the philosophies motivating Elon Musk. (YouTube vid below, but also available via your favourite podcast outlet) youtu.be/MsO8zFQKHxw

Soo pumped to talk about my book #DemocratizingAI at re:publica in Berlin nxt Mon 4:45 pm alongside so many scholars & journalists whose work I have admired for a long time including (but not limited to!) @karenhao.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @doctorow.pluralistic.net

the problem isn't really that it's not true, it's that you're celebrating the spinning jenny at the muselin weavers guild

Responses to statement "AI is the next industrial revolution" in 2022: blank stares 2024: half-nods 2026: open boos

the gang's all here

Boston/Cambridge folks: come help me launch YUPPIES with @quinnslobodian.com at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Tomorrow at 7pm

keep on thinking i should probably read harari for general research purposes but then i open it at random to pages like this

Guy at the bookstore in a squirrel t-shirt said he had two "named squirrels" in the graveyard who ate from his hand, have rarely seen someone so happy.

we did build statues of them

David Sacks vs. Hayek's Bastards, chapter 3

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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School? “How did the idea arise that big, bad Teddy Adorno and his wing men at the Institute for Social Research were plotting to undermine Western civilization by championing atonal music and the prose of Samuel Beckett?”

A recent review for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of AJA Woods' book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. The book is really quite good and I think should be read by anyone who takes culture seriously.

a good weekend: the wall street journal didn't like my friend's book about yuppies and the manhattan institute didn't like our book about musk. 🌞

underused stock photo

Great piece by @tinanguyen.bsky.social - the MAGA-All-In-Podcast window was open for a year, but it has started to close. www.theverge.com/column/92548...

beloved pastimes (ranked): 1. root canal 2. hearing podcasts about what "the left" did wrong

breaking into the thai readership

"infuse" is the right verb

Happy Friday, post Simpsons screenshots to cleanse the timeline.

it's really the next stage of @leninology.bsky.social's smart take in the twittering machine on social media as graphomania

biodiversity cetacea inclusion

an escalating horrorshow of utterances

sadly they're all being fired

'amazing abundance'

Has there been any reporting on the rumored attempt to create a secessionist Stanford history department inside of the Hoover Institution?

Observing via my burner acct (only follows Elon), it's clear the claim one can use X without compromise is hollow: links beyond X are choked (close to zero views) and the only posts that achieve virality are those that can be "ironically" read by the right as transgressive of progressive norms.

pretty good title for our @airmail.news piece airmail.news/issues/2026-...

and now bootleged into french 🇫🇷👇

Text of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻

the war of position to reclaim Musk for the center begins. insert president newsom gendo ikari meme.

Appreciate the distinction between "representational" and "operational: readings laid out by @ddzeeuw.bsky.social + @hetsalwel.bsky.social here. Resonates with what @bentarnoff.com + I have been groping towards in Musk's relationship to social media and genAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

I should be working, and yet...

Text of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻

I had such a great time digging into “Muskism” with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com. It really gives us a lot to ponder about the system we’re living in and how central Elon Musk has been to helping define it for his own benefit. Highly recommend grabbing a copy of the book!

In the US, this is actually all the Democratic Party talks about

saw a scarlet tanager today for those that means something to

Saw the phrase "sovereignty gap" today (and yes it was uttered by a missile manufacturer)

we spoke to @parismarx.com for @techwontsave.us and @thenation.com www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...

reviewed in @economist.com www.economist.com/culture/2026...

What ‘NPC,’ Elon Musk’s favorite term of abuse, reveals about his worldview. @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com talk Muskism on Journalism 2050 with @emilybell.bsky.social and @heatherchaplin. youtu.be/9jCT8RyrgLY

"a new study from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center shows an ambiguous to negative relationship between IMF programs and capital formation." @gdp-center.bsky.social project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...