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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

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Interview on the history of @endnotesjournal.bsky.social . chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

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It’s great to see this piece published in Platforms & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It nicely brings critical platform scholarship into conversation with the lit. on state capitalism and techno-colonialism, through a rich case study set in post-pandemic Greece.

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There was some uncertainty about what would happen with Biden's quite radical AI diffusion plan launched at the very end of his presidency - it looks as though Trump will likely continue it and maybe even make it more stringent www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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SOCIALIZING BIG TECH. a mini-workshop with CECILIA RIKAP March 5, 2025 14:00 - 17:00 seminar room 2249A, HU Unter den Linden 6, Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/social...

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Huge congratulations to @wstronge.bsky.social & @helenhester.bsky.social on this masterpiece. Lots of political shifts (to put it mildly) since this book was conceived & it’s more important than ever…#postwork @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social

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Potentially a big step forward www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...

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Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Had my say for @nybooks.com about the last couple weeks as the convergence of three overlapping political projects and asked about the endgame: a streamlined state, a shackled state, or a shattered state? www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

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New pub 📢 "SoftBank: Empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism" New Political Economy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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London/UK people: I'll be there at the end of March and will give a talk at Pelican House on Pedagogies of Struggles: Workers Failing and Learning to Govern Platforms. Hope to see some of you there. More info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pedagogies...

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Bruce understands the assignment. After a long week, he’s fully committed to the weekend. I’ve ended up with two extra copies of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by @helenhester.bsky.social & @nsrnicek.bsky.social Ping me if you’re in the UK and want it.

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Psst, buddy... Wanna see some endorsements? My book with @wstronge.bsky.social is out this month. Here's some of the generous comments we received from kind and brilliant people.

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Public compute — state provision of computing resources — could be a powerful tool for reshaping the AI sector. In our report, Jai Vipra and I offer an overview of existing approaches, and recommendations for avoiding industry capture, reducing environmental harms, and delivering public value 1/5

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Capex of Big Tech - they're projecting over $300 billion in 2025, most of it on AI infrastructure

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Are we in a second Cold War? @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social, @steverolf.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social argue that the current conflict focuses on controlling global economic networks rather than ideology or territory. www.tni.org/en/article/t...

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Rest in Power Michael Burawoy you will live on in your words burawoy.berkeley.edu

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Anthropic CEO piece hasn't aged well after a month: "It’s imperative that free societies with democratic oversight and the rule of law set the norms by which AI is employed." www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Turns out the first data centre for OpenAI's Stargate project is actually a data centre abandoned by Musk because he was too impatient for its timeline - and then Stargate gets prominently launched without him www.theinformation.com/articles/why...

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Just going to point out that since ChatGPT launched, the AI labs have been making massive training and inference efficiency gains at the same time as spending more and more on compute

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Seeing a lot of people saying that DeepSeek is the “Pinduoduo of AI” but one way in which they completely differ is in their management styles and this has resulted in drastically different types of innovation. I wrote about this here: highvalueadded.substack.com/p/how-new-la...

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Might start adding this to everything I write

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New podcast! @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I spend 3 hours discussing reactionary digital politics, the history of the online right and the politics of the platform economy. We also have a row about Bitcoin. It's all here, and in the feeds: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/01/15/h....

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Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war

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The authors don't frame it this way but this is the best "AI is neoliberal" argument www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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This looks fabulous for those interested in the past and present of mothers in politics (and feminism in changing understandings of motherhood): "British left-wing politics does not know what to think about mothers."

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Mark Zuckerberg: bends the knee to Trump and trashes his public image - biggest competitor TikTok gets reprieve from a ban Jensen Huang: skips Trump's inauguration for a trip to China instead - $500 billion donation to Nvidia announced a day later www.theinformation.com/briefings/op...

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One critical diff between AI in China and the US is in state support for cloud computing. This piece, written with @aiproem.bsky.social, compares cloud strategies in the two countries, focusing on differences in industrial policy and ownership structures. highvalueadded.substack.com/p/behind-the...

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In light of his Trump turn, funny to remember that circa 2015 Zuckerberg was learning Chinese, telling his staff to read Xi's speeches, and asking Xi to give his unborn daughter an honorary Chinese name

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Fascinating look into the carbon usage of various AI models, with a lot of counterintuitive findings huggingface.co/blog/leaderb...

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New year, new article! I am so delighted to see my piece on venture capital logics, military AI companies and their impact on shaping military norms out with @finandsoc.bsky.social. Open access! #civmilsky #milsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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It's here! The Competition & Change special issue ‘Rethinking Economic Planning’, edited by @christophsorg.bsky.social and me (Jan Groos), is officially out in full! Find it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1 Please share and spread the word! Thx!

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Only thing better than starting your own state is taking over an existing one. - Thiel, paraphrased

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Hours after Musk said 'only the AfD can save Germany', one of their supporters carried out a terrorist attack www.ft.com/content/5e2f...

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An early Christmas present for all data center load growth nerds: The new LBNL report to congress is out today! Fully documents significant load growth in data centers to 2023, starting from the 2018 base of about 1% of US electricity use. More details soon! eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications...

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Well that’s a seasonal treat! @drljshepherd.bsky.social

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This is becoming the mainstream, consensus position in the global humanitarian / human rights community. It should be recognised and treated as such. Not just in the general discourse, but by policymakers above all. They have a specific obligation to prevent genocide. Active facilitation is criminal

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One to watch - a new trade association representing the interests of some defence tech startups, venture capitalists, AI firms, and traditional manufacturers newindustrials.org

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La meva ressenya de DESPRÉS DE LA FEINA by @helenhester.bsky.social & @nsrnicek.bsky.social (@arcadia-ed.bsky.social, trad. @ariadnapous.bsky.social) pel @ara.cat: "la comunització de les cures, el luxe públic i la sobirania sobre el temps [...] assenyalen qüestions centrals sobre el món de demà"

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"End the FTC's attempt to become an AI regulator."

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Most contemporary discussions of markets vs planning are too stark and simplistic. To think seriously for the future, we need a richer and more nuanced approach. Angus Hebenton & I make a start here: engaging with the unduly neglected work of Meade, Holland, and Wootton. ejpe.org/journal

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A new article of mine for South Atlantic Quarterly, with some reflections on Sweden, the welfare state, gender and the family: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

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Casual reminder that Neurocracy opens with the assassination of the richest man in the world, and the rest of the game is about finding out what a complete shitheel he was 😘 ▶️ omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/01/Xu_Shaoyong

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