Great Birnam Wood now part of the Americas

Doing an AMA today about histories of global order with @orrosenboim.bsky.social at 12:30 at NYU's Remarque Center if you're looking for a light buffet lunch and some Kelsen. as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Walking up 6th Avenue and nodding at every lamppost.

What better way to celebrate the centenary of the 1920s

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Bunroe Doctrine

With @bentarnoff.com!

This was a great chat, fun to get into the meta-questions about why the “network state“ notion seems to be coverable in mainstream outlets as it wasn’t before: sign of its influence or distraction from larger political economic shifts?

We are pleased to share the text of the 46th Annual FA Mann Lecture, delivered by Prof Philippe Sands KC on the thought-provoking topic, "A World Without Law?" part of the annual series held in honour of the late Dr FA Mann QC (hon) organised by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. buff.ly/7bNmKMa

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

As the man says, “interesting”

Industry season 4 has a lot to work with

ok this is a lot. even for me.

One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.

This is the AI bubble’s end game: “when AI has infiltrated work processes to the point that exit costs are prohibitive, the customer base will be unable to escape and coerced into paying up. The world will be hooked on AI, and the tech firms will collect handsome profits.”

I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short @thebaffler.com Link ⬇️

I've only read Morozov's first essay response to Benanav's Beyond Capital and I started Weatherby's response to Morozov, but the debate happening between them in The Ideas Letter is a really fascinating exchange on the subject of AI's place in political economy www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

now do quahogs

“Potential phone“

Were Musk‘s goal to launch 1 million rockets—by some miracle of engineering and failure of politics—to actually happen, the hours around twilight would feature a slowly drifting dense lattice of light trails at the horizon that would look a lot like...The Matrix.

New essay by @steffenmurau.bsky.social on Trump admin's misunderstanding of dollar hegemony—and four possible futures for the international monetary system. 1/ www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

Two years ago, a secret meeting by some AfD members with Sellner rocked the party because ”remigration” was discussed. Today, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, calls for remigration regularly on his social media platform. That’s how quickly the normalization has happened.

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

Talked with @democracynow.org about the latest: 1. Elon vs EU sovereignty 2. Grok deepfakes as business decision 3. The attempted biggest land grab in human history—this time in space (FCC filing for "up to one million satellites" for orbital AI). www.youtube.com/watch?v=R76f...

😢 futurism.com/future-socie...

shorthand for 2025: OBBB vs OBAO

Mit Kleinststaaten, Privatstädten, Offshore-Zentren und Kolonien im All schützen Anarchokapitalist*innen das Kapital vor dem Zugriff des Staates. Anja Hertz rezensiert "Kapitalismus ohne Demokratie" von Quinn Slobodian. @suhrkamp.de kritisch-lesen.de/rezension/di...

Just saw this on an HBS website... an AI "moral repugnance" score

Godwin’s Engine

One of the bleakest but most symptomatic moments of mid-90s infighting that set the stage for the rise of the alt right/groypers was when D’Souza argued race was over and Brimelow, in National Review, racially taxonomized his daughter in rebuttal.

For those interested in the longer history of IQ and the like, new book by an excellent historian 👇

My essay on socialism after AI has triggered quite a debate - so much so that I wrote a much longer second essay. That same issue of The Ideas Letter also contains two lengthy responses to my original piece www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-so...

Me talking about Musk’s fabulations and misdemeanors

In 2022, MA voters said YES to the taxing millionaires more in order to fund education and transportation. Here's what Fair Share has delivered so far. And it's just getting started. #mapoli www.mass.gov/info-details...

@brookeamasters.ft.com astutely reads the ever stranger enterprise AI subway ads as symptoms of desperation to get market share before the bubble bursts giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

the Marxists are fighting, so i had to weigh in www.theideasletter.org/essay/automa...

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

Interesting that DeSantis is testing out the anti-AI lane. This is going to be huge in the next two election cycles. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Always funny to me that the Fed chair is Jerome to everyone but “Jay” to the FT.

“Liver King” is over.

Hayek‘s Bastards = 90s-brained thinktankers like D’Souza scouring the depths of bad science to find faux-natural levers to prop up hierarchy under perceived threat.

Don’t sleep on this battle royale: @abenanav.bsky.social x @leifw.bsky.social x @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on AI and socialism ⚔️💾 www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

Based Maritimes

‘A brilliant guide to the strange politics born from the Great Financial Crisis.’- Quinn Slobodian Technocrats in Turmoil: The Fed, the ECB, and the Changing Politics of Money by Nicolas Jabko (@jhuartssciences.bsky.social), Coming Soon #Economics 🗺️ #PoliSky #EconSky https://cup.org/3ZC8bXo

@quinnslobodian.com on Musk today on @democracynow.org

Me talking about Musk’s fabulations and misdemeanors