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Central bank bosses enlist for war game to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust Finance chiefs to join exercise in Washington designed to assess how they would handle collapse of significant bank

Central banks meet to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust.

Tests incomplete - shadow banks, including hedge funds & private equity are unregulated.

UK Govt deregulating retail banks.

Major banks will be bailed out by the public purse. No incentive to behave responsibly.

Sánchez: “Shame on those who remain silent in the face of injustice. Shame on those who exploit workers, who criminalise those who are different, who turn rights into commodities, who defend elite privilege, who support war and violence in Gaza, the West Bank, Ukraine, Lebanon, and the Middle East.”

'You killed a journalist. Why did you Photoshop him into a Hezbollah uniform?' On the Line With Lt. Col. Shoshani, the IDF's International Spokesperson

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Church Committee Report book cover with a photo of Frank Church holding a CIA dark gone done in 1970s style orange. Edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman with a foreward by Beverly Gage.

It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

The Great AI Grift Tech leaders and the Trump administration want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold daylight heist.

new piece in @thenation.com with @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @smw.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/econ...

entire political class has to go

What can you even say about this, man.

Our May issue is here! This one features an AI package as well as Spring Books. We have @jacobsilverman.com on the death of an AI whistleblower, @elienyc.bsky.social on the future of AI judges, @bentarnoff.com on "The AI Paradox," and more.

concerns the ways in which Trumps ai industrial policy is even more corrupt and shifts even more power to a narrow band of elites than past crony capital industrial policies

The Great AI Grift Tech leaders and the Trump administration want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold daylight heist.

new piece in @thenation.com with @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @smw.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/econ...

entire political class has to go

at minimum, literally not a single American politician who is currently in national office should hold it ever again

Synagogue in Tehran ‘completely destroyed’ in US-Israeli attack US-Israeli strikes destroy synagogue in Tehran, prompting outrage amid reports of 15 killed across Iran overnight.

US and Israeli forces “completely destroyed” a Tehran synagogue during Pesach. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Was mid-move but would also love to hear more about this! Either way let’s find a time to chat via email.

How The Military Industrial Complex Actually Works | Richard Hames Meets Susannah Glickman YouTube video by Novara Media

New interview with @novaramedia.com youtu.be/tTWUeUwKavg?...

Giving a talk on the history of quantum at the university of amsterdam April 8! www.ivir.nl/events/quant...

MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We r...

"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images."

Well this isn't good 😮

arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

Carlyle and KKR to build two data centres for US Army at a cost of $2bn each Army secretary says Iran war underscores need to adapt to AI’s growing role in modern warfare

The financialization stage of this hegemonic cycle is truly off the charts.

Anduril’s Real War Is With Itself From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned.

Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/anduri...

extreme us wealth inequality is the *cause* of why ai rollout looks like class war, not the inevitable outcome of said technology. Eg China is using the tech differently, not just to attack and degrade certain classes of workers

Enjoyed talking to @richardhames.bsky.social as part of the new @novaramedia.com complete with ever-expanding board of connections, our attempt to do a materialist analysis of Musk’s strange behavior—-though @susglickman.bsky.social on the last one was a hard act to follow

youtu.be/hn89XxHJLQ0?...

I hope when my time comes, my editors will let me do some shit like this

cover goes so hard

How bad is it? Well. Qatar Energy just announced they may have to declare Force Majeure on long-term contracts **FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS**.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mol...

We need 4th wave so bad….

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

Update: Dolores Huerta has released a statement. In it, she confirms the Times's reporting, and supports the other women who have come forward. "I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here."

Al, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong & Asuman Ozdaglar WORKING PAPER 34910 DOl 10.3386/w34910 ISSUE DATE February 2026 We study how generative Al, and in particular agentic Al, shapes human learning incentives and the long-run evolution of society's information ecosystem. We build a dynamic model of learning and decision-making in which successful decisions require combining shared, community-level general knowledge with individual-level, context-specific knowledge; these two inputs are complements. Learning exhibits economies of scope: costly human effort jointly produces a private signal about their own context and a "thin" public signal that accumulates into the community's stock of general knowledge, generating a learning externality. Agentic Al delivers context-specific recommendations that substitute for human effort. By contrast, a richer stock of general knowledge complements human effort by raising its marginal return. The model highlights a sharp dynamic tension: while agentic Al can improve contemporaneous decision quality, it can also erode learning incentives that sustain long-run collective knowledge. When human effort is sufficiently elastic and agentic recommendations exceed an accuracy threshold, the economy can tip into a knowledge-collapse steady state in which general knowledge vanishes ultimately, despite high-quality personalized advice. Welfare is generally non-monotone in agentic accuracy, implying an interior, welfare-maximizing level of agentic precision and motivating information-design regulations. In contrast, greater aggregation capacity for general knowledge meaning more effective sharing and pooling of human-generated general knowledge unambiguously raises welfare and increases resilience to knowledge collapse.

Super interesting paper showing that even a “perfectly capable” AI could contribute to a breakdown of knowledge transmission and a reduction in total aggregate skills in the economy

From @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Kong & Ozdaglar

www.nber.org/papers/w34910

I’m not sure but will let you know