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How long is autumn? And does autumn actually matter? Asking for a friend who is concerned about the health of a certain empire… lareviewofbooks.org/article/autu... policytensor.substack.com/p/the-longue... on-air.caricomassimo.org/media/pages/...

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“…all paradigms experience endogenous decay…the relationships of exploitation that underpin a paradigm stop working and begin to push against it. This forces a period of crisis and change, which shapes the next wave of technological development that underpins the subsequent growth wave”

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This is striking- the US currently accounts for two-thirds of the total value of global stock markets. The US IT sector is alone worth about as much as all publicly-traded companies in Europe or Asia. on.ft.com/3FeFUzd

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hello, i was agonising how our deeply brainrot politics somehow broke containment into the US government so now everyone is kinda forced to be exposed to this insanity. but furthermore, another plea to think about our digital infrastructure. reneshaf.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/y...

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🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org: We added global temperature anomaly charts coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods. Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past. [New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

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Already a time capsule, but back in January a bunch of us working at the intersection of the humanities and AI/ML came together to sketch out eight provocations from the humanities for genAI research. Here's a 🧵 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190

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Catarina Neves and I are organizing a panel on the Philosophy of Degrowth at this year's MANCEPT Workshops. The CFP is below – deadline for submission May 7. Please share widely! #philsky #polsky

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There's genuinely an unparalleled insanity in how mainstream institutions approach Palestine. Even after 16 months of Palestinians being starved, tortured, shot, bombed — on camera — this is how mainstream media describes a film covering a sliver of that much-broader reality:

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Many of you have already seen it, but I wanted to wait until my version was complete. My version has my newly set up youtube channel, some minor fixes to the transcript &a bevy of links throughout the transcript. Also a PDF version. Thanks @pkrugman.bsky.social www.crisesnotes.com/musk-in-your...

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And the Oscar goes to No Other Land 💫 Available to stream here: releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land

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Definitely good for students to get some exposure to conservative viewpoints! bsky.app/profile/oldj...

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Oxfam: “Israel’s decision, to block aid to over 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Ramadan begins, is a reckless act of collective punishment, explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian law."

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Spring in North India - fleeting and absolutely lovely

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If I missed your recent blog post, it’s because my open source read-it-later app has shut down and I am now rudderless in an online ocean.

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a new (more personal than usual) post on my blog about how everyone is in on one big conspiracy to make you feel ugly until you are so completely demoralized that not only do you feel ugly but you feel like a bad person for being ugly readunderwire.com/2025/02/24/e...

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Reminds me of this magnificent interactive explainer from @bciechanowski.bsky.social on the physics of an airfoil. ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

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the more you understand about the physics of air travel the more thoroughly it seems like black magic

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I'm putting together a slide illustrating how generative AI is being forced on people even though they don't want it, and this is sort of funny. Here's are Google's autocomplete suggestions for "google gemini how to", and Bing's autocomplete suggestions for for "microsoft copilot how to".

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I have zero knowledge on how a European military-industrial complex could be combined with the Green transition, social protections and global cooperation. Frankly I have whiplash from the speed of events - so this piece is very insightful and helpful.

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Hyper-Imperialism is a militarized form of imperialism marked by the US's declining hegemony and growing reliance on military power and sanctions to maintain its dominance. This dossier remains a nice read for understanding current shifts in U.S. foreign policy. thetricontinental.org/studies-on-c...

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@advaitarun.bsky.social on the LLM-ification of everything from aesthetics to local news. The slop-shift and the wider displacement of labour, learning, and experience can be resisted 🫡 The promise of “frictionless” engagement can be interrogated.

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I'm switching my blogging from Wordpress to Substack. Had a lot of fun working on this first post: advaitcore.substack.com/p/llms-in-th...

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This may be the worst data visualization I have ever seen. Read below for some hot takes about this shit dataviz by the super transphobic @nytimes.com

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In the new issue of our monthly newsletter: ▸ What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia ▸ Italian Wikipedia is the hardest to read ▸ "open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia" than those behind a paywall meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...

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Saw this discarded on the footpath; irony on overdrive

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If you’re wondering how on earth Europe navigates the post-transatlantic era of defense spending, self imposed fiscal restraint, energy vulnerability and climate goals… so are @70sbachchan.bsky.social and I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

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The most important thing to identify here is the strong inversed relationship between “conservative” (moderate) right and “hard” right. One might think that Conservative parties are a Trojan horse of far right success.

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After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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‘Knowledge is the most general factive mental state’

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Political economy of finance summer school: I thought there were three more days to apply but this is February – the deadline is tomorrow! Fortunately applying is easy. Please share with interested friends and colleagues.

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"But you see my man over there with the pouch? Dare one of you man try an get loud"

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Will the internationally agreed system of national accounts survive? Have accounting identities gone too woke? Tune in next week to find out.

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"Through the transitista model, we can understand the Panamanian isthmus as part of a world-system that since the colonial era has subjugated the colonies to the interests of imperial metropolises." NEW @celopezm.bsky.social and Danilo Rivera on Panama's history of uneven development

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Anneliese Dodds has quit over Starmer's aid cuts meaning another uptick for the @instituteforgov.bsky.social resignations chart She is the fifth minister to leave the government (and the fourth to resign) since the GE

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Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety

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‘“When we got into office Paul Marshall was a Lib Dem man,” a former Lib Dem MP told me. “By the time the coalition was over, he was a Gove man.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the businessman whose influence is reshaping British right-wing media: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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GET IN THE BIN KEITH

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Cambridge University loses bid to ban pro-Palestine protests on university sites - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-condemns-cambridge-university-seeking-ban-pro-palestine-protests

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LETS GOOOO. GET IN THE BIN KEITH! HT @instituteforgov.bsky.social ministerial resignations google sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Chart code here: observablehq.com/d/48168b0d3b...

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Du Bois wrapped/serpentine bar chart seemed apt for this one. Code: observablehq.com/d/a207f5c57a...

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