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@vikkink.bsky.social
some of us are still marxists, you know
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“I am shocked, shocked to find that agriculture is subsidized” is one of those gags that works for countries/entities accounting for at least 75% of the world economy,
The commerce ministry said in a preliminary decision on Monday that it had found dairy imports from the EU were subsidised and that China’s domestic industry 'suffered material injury' as a result. ft.trib.al/WgyxlQ7
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“I am shocked, shocked to find that agriculture is subsidized” is one of those gags that works for countries/entities accounting for at least 75% of the world economy,
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"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."
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Interesting Morozov critique of @abenanav.bsky.social on the challenge of the non-neutrality of generative AI www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
December 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Interesting Morozov critique of @abenanav.bsky.social on the challenge of the non-neutrality of generative AI www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
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It's obvious every occasion is being used to criminalize the Palestine movement, because it's been effective and continues to be effective. But it's especially wry to use as a pretext a terrorist attack by ISIS, which opposes the Palestine movement and national liberation in general
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's obvious every occasion is being used to criminalize the Palestine movement, because it's been effective and continues to be effective. But it's especially wry to use as a pretext a terrorist attack by ISIS, which opposes the Palestine movement and national liberation in general
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best to ever do it
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
best to ever do it
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I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
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Fukuyama is such an idiot
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Fukuyama is such an idiot
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I have rarely come across more transparently false and shallow arguments than Milton Friedman's excuses about his role in Pinochet's dictatorship - ridiculously often framed in justifications straight from Pinochet's own propaganda machine. (Eg: left, Friedman's 1998 account. Right, the reality)
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I have rarely come across more transparently false and shallow arguments than Milton Friedman's excuses about his role in Pinochet's dictatorship - ridiculously often framed in justifications straight from Pinochet's own propaganda machine. (Eg: left, Friedman's 1998 account. Right, the reality)
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Socialism after AI part 2:
"Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
"Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Socialism after AI part 2:
"Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
"Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Capitalism’s Toxic Nature
A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
www.thenation.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
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I wrote about Kalshi, prediction markets, and the vision of total financialization by turning every opinion into a tradable assets www.fastcompany.com/91457404/kal...
The Kalshi-fication of everything
The predictions platform is revealing what a world of total financialization will look like.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I wrote about Kalshi, prediction markets, and the vision of total financialization by turning every opinion into a tradable assets www.fastcompany.com/91457404/kal...
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites on JSTOR
David Linton, THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 1991-92), pp. 404-413
www.jstor.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
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"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
Nature research paper: Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature
Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.
go.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
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I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
Amílcar Cabral: To Be Mountains, To Return to the Source of Power
Assassinated 20 January 1973. Yet still today we cry “Viva Cabral! Viva!”
folukeafrica.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
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Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
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The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
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A historian who spent a month in #Gaza at the turn of the yr says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that #Israel supported looters who attacked aidconvoys. He was hosted by a humanitarian organisation in the southern coastal zone of #alMawasi www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #BenjaminNetanyahu
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A historian who spent a month in #Gaza at the turn of the yr says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that #Israel supported looters who attacked aidconvoys. He was hosted by a humanitarian organisation in the southern coastal zone of #alMawasi www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #BenjaminNetanyahu
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No Steely Dan, list discarded
@billboard.com magazine’s TOP 50 ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME or “SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY TO FIGHT ABOUT." Sound off!
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
No Steely Dan, list discarded
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this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
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The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
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Monte Dolack, Home on the Reef, 1994
September 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Monte Dolack, Home on the Reef, 1994