“Whoever controls AI infrastructure—compute, models, data, & cloud—will shape the economic & political order of the 21st century. The U.S. & China understand this & are mobilizing every instrument of statecraft to secure supremacy. Europe must understand it too.” — @francescabria.bsky.social #ai

“Today the EU has AI regulation but not much AI to regulate, leaving European nations more dependent on U.S. & Chinese platforms. This is what backfiring looks like.” —Benjamin Bratton #europe #ai #airegulation

In case you missed it: my lead essay in the new print issue of @noemamag.com, "From Statecraft to Soulcraft." After 70 years, states are back in the business of shaping the good life. Welcome to the post-liberal era. www.noemamag.com/from-statecr...

We are so excited to see Noema taking over storefronts around the world! Enjoying your new copy? Post a photo or video with Issue VI sharing what you like about the new issue & tag us! We'll send you a special token of appreciation for your support ✨

Looking through the back catalogue @noemamag.com and found this fascinating + gorgeous piece by @olliemilman.bsky.social - well worth your time: www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-...

Context matters: Intervision is Russia’s post-Eurovision project, with Putin himself addressing the launch. Next year it heads to Saudi Arabia. Winning here is less about charts and more about positioning in a new cultural-political bloc. @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/a-new-soft-p...

Delighted to be mentioned in Nathan Gardels’ new piece on sovereign AI zones. The Stack is no longer just a metaphor but a live architecture of choice, power, and alignment.

“Vietnam has refused to adopt either Chinese or American models of AI & instead is building its own ‘core tech stack’ of language models, cloud infrastructure & even training data.” #ai #geopolitics

I got my first issue of @noemamag.com in the mail the other day. I don't *agree* with everything in it but the writing is good, it's designed beautifully, and it's kind of a thrill to hear such radically different perspectives from what I'm normally exposed to

Look what came in the mail! Cc @mariafarrell.bsky.social

Biggest @noemamag.com fan from down under—long weekend reading sorted.

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"The successor to mass social media is... emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares," writes James O'Sullivan. Here's his piece for @noemamag.com. www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“As the dismal trends in American test scores make clear, our current approach is no longer serving students’ needs.” —Greg Easley #ai #education #school #teachers

What do computer science, quantum physics & Hindu tradition have in common? It’s more than you might think, Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli write. #consciousness #ai #hinduism #quantumphysics

“Should China be regarded as a geopolitical threat to the liberal world order or as a Green Giant that is the best friend of the planet; the enemy in a new Cold War or the vanguard in the battle against the existential challenge of a warming biosphere? Or both?” #china #greentransition #climate

The revival of the Intervision Song Contest “is about more than pop & kitsch: It’s a soft power ploy by Putin, who has been using non-Western cultural events to strengthen Russia’s political alliances with countries in the Global South,” Lily Lynch reports. #russia #eurovision #intervision

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Like all binary oppositions, the US vs. China dichotomy that now shapes discussions and debates about the future of #AI is limited and limiting. There is a third way that deconstructs this binary. Check out the new @noemamag.com essay from @digitaldang.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

“AI sovereignty, as it currently plays out outside of the U.S.-China vacuum, is not a banner‐waving claim to territorial control; rather, it manifests itself as the quiet right to decide what counts as knowledge & how that knowledge shows up in the world.” — @digitaldang.bsky.social #ai #aistacks

The third stack is here. A path for ai that isn’t the stale U.S.–China binary, but something assembled, sovereign, and stubbornly local. My essay in Noema: www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

‘a historical sensibility is not about memorizing dates and facts. It is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context & aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.’

> It arrives fully formed, optimized for attention rather than meaning, producing a kind of semantic sludge, posts that look like language yet say almost nothing. @noemamag.com

@noemamag.com: "The Last Days Of Social Media. Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion. @digitaljim.bsky.social "At first glance, the feed looks familiar, a seamless carousel of “For You” updates." www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“Xi deftly appropriated a celebration of the historical moment that gave birth to the liberal world order to signal its encroaching displacement.” —Nathan Gardels #china #xijinping #russia #putin #india #modi

“We crave certainty, especially in the face of tragedy, & are quick to weave disparate facts into a coherent, & often sinister, narrative.” —Francis Gavin #history #historians

This essay has renewed a little cautious optimism within me.

This has been a super-popular piece for @noemamag.com and I can't help but wonder how many people click on this wondering if they can trade in one of their kidneys for some crypto www.noemamag.com/how-much-is-...

Issue VI is on its way to you! Haven’t ordered your copy yet? Get it here: shop.noemamag.com #print #magazines #noema

The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment & infrastructure development, @bentleyallan.bsky.social argues.

"The feed no longer surprises but sedates, and in that sedation, something quietly breaks, and social media no longer feels like a place to be; it is a surface to skim." @jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“Under Trump, America is joining the ranks of state-managed capitalist societies that intervene in the private economy as part of an industrial strategy to keep their nations competitive & prospering.” —Nathan Gardels #trump #nvidia #maga

My essay for @noemamag.com, about the act of *not* walking home from Istanbul in 2012, has been selected for the Best Sports Writing of 2025. I am now officially a sports writer, much to my surprise!

RIP SoMe (as we know it). Great reflections by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social in @noemamag.com "The problem is not just the rise of fake material, but the collapse of context and the acceptance that truth no longer matters as long as our cravings for colors and noise are satisfied." #technology

We're honored to have a piece by @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social featured in this!

Morning-coffee reading, entering the Uzbek desert with its vanishing saline inland sea from the Southern California desert, not far from our own. Missed this from @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social & @noemamag.com back in January (when I might not have sweated so much while reading, as the sun rises).

“Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins.” — @jamesosullivan.bsky.social #socialmedia #attentioneconomy #aislop

“To help navigate the perilous & promising rapids of oncoming times, @berggruen.org has launched a new podcast: @futurologypod.bsky.social.” Give it a listen to see what the likes of @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, @slaughteram.bsky.social & @drfeifei.bsky.social think the future has in store.

Issue VI is off to the printers & on pre-sale now. Grab a copy: shop.noemamag.com #print #magazines

“Building a stage worthy of God is one of humankind’s most ancient obsessions. But in the West at least, it is a dying art.” — @johnwlast.bsky.social #religion #architecture #churches

🎧 Listen to the podcast! @wired.com's @lmatsakis.bsky.social, @cato.org's Tad DeHaven & @noemamag.com's @nilsgilman.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the recent deals between the U.S. government and private companies and why experts say such deals are a step towards fascism.

"The misinformation paradigm, for all its limitations, has shown that rapid, large-scale coordination around democratic challenges is possible."

🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking with @wired.com's @lmatsakis.bsky.social, @cato.org's Tad DeHaven and @noemamag.com's @nilsgilman.bsky.social about the recent deals between the U.S. government and private companies. ❓ What do you think about the government owning shares of private companies? 📻 Listen:

WED at 9AM: @wired.com's @lmatsakis.bsky.social, @cato.org's Tad DeHaven and @noemamag.com's @nilsgilman.bsky.social join to talk about the recent deals between the U.S. government and private companies. ❓ What do you think of the U.S. government taking ownership stakes in private companies?

Scott & I with a new piece in @noemamag.com We argue the “misinformation paradigm” has: – Overstated online misinformation’s role in politics – Ignored much of what we know about communication – Directed attention to strategies ill-suited to today’s environment

“The last decade has made clear that we aren’t going to fact-check or inoculate our way toward a healthier civic culture.” — @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen #misinformation #disinformation #democracy

Always love @noemamag.com for provocative longreads and this is a really cool one on the perils of the sky, real and imagined.

It's Seabird Sunday, your weekly round up of interesting links shared by users on the Seabird app (which you should join too!). First up, traveling to Thailand with @noemamag.com to explore a possible future of eating bugs: www.noemamag.com/would-you-ea...

What might replace American lawns? Entomologist Douglas Tallamy advocates for what he calls “homegrown national parks” — seeding native plants (oaks are an excellent choice for most places, he said) and reducing mowing and chemicals. —via @olliemilman.bsky.social, @noemamag.com

“Chemtrail conspiracists are not wrong to sense encroaching asphyxiation, a sky looming with danger.” —Leo Kim #chemtrails #conspiracy #geoengineering