So as America becomes a dump, I did this yesterday:

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean? Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives

“These corporations steal our work to create sound-alikes, effectively forcing us into a ‘training’ role to which we never consented,” the Music Workers Alliance said in a statement.
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I'm listening to the oral argument in Trump v. Barbara because I want to be mad this morning.

Important new reading on venture capital takeover of the military.

They have immense control of our military apparatus and it expands by the day. Get the details.

h/t @aretvet.bsky.social

www.vcinfodocs.com/tech-fascism...

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The Perils of Militarizing Law Enforcement Latin America’s warning for U.S. democracy.

“Once the line between soldier and police officer is blurred, it is extraordinarily difficult to redraw,” writes Gustavo Flores-Macías. “This is a reality Latin Americans know all too well, and one Americans may soon come to learn.”

I’m looking forward to this book, a topic I’ve always wanted to understand better:

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Me too !!!! 🥹

Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present Elon Musk sells us sovereignty through technology in an age of crisis. Muskism resembles past futurisms, but with an important difference: this time, the question of who owns the machines is paramount.

Elon Musk sells us sovereignty through technology in an age of crisis. Muskism resembles past futurisms, but with an important difference: this time, the question of who owns the machines is paramount.

Can I just make up my history? 🙏🏼

"Lenders who originated data center loans—including the private credit facilities described in Section A—have begun pooling those loans and selling tranches to asset managers and pension funds, spreading risk well beyond the original lending institutions." www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/pub...

The tech bros own Trump and his Cult of the Clueless.

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Trump, Putin & Co. - Deutsche Bank’s questionable clientele | DW Documentary YouTube video by DW Documentary

Money laundering & Trump:

youtu.be/ZlIagcttGY0?...

Bowie in Berlin | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra YouTube video by Alltid Redo

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I enjoyed this discussion

So thanks to both of you

States & municipalities could decide to use sub federal public institutions to create public money rather than rely on our federal government

And they should

If our government paid for a high quality public housing option, there would be more supply

Though agree that things like zoning should be addressed so high quality public housing can be built in walkable environments and such

If our government paid for medical school when it creates our currency, then we’d almost certainly have more primary docs

Medical students who would be interested in primary care specialize because it makes more money & medical school creates lots of debt for lots of medical students

Katerina Pistor has an interesting definition of “capital”: Whatever the law allows to be a source of profit.

@lpeproject.bsky.social is devoted to countering neoliberal legal theory & practice

Encasing the markets from democratic regulations

And writing laws & regulations that benifit banks & corporations

I think Katerina Pistor’s book: The Code of Capital: How Law Creates Wealth & Inequality is very good on this

Also there’s a great INET series with her that’s a great summary

And, more importantly in my mind, neoliberalism’s real goal is to derisk banks & corporations

Which we’ve certainly done

And, honestly, we had The New Deal for The Great Depression & bank bailouts for the GFC

A hot WWII economy where we issued household savings bonds to help regulate inflation. So lots of household savings vs lots of household debt

Plus stuff like the GI bill.

Here’s an older graph.

Yours is surprising. Especially considering automobile & education debt that young people carry.

I also think one element of Trumpism in the US is grifting and cons, which make use of holes in regulatory schemes, including protection of commercial speech. Tech impunity is part of that, too, with the small crackdown threat during Biden coming as a shock and leading to huge backlash

The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…

I explore a couple mechanisms here: lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

Other candidates include hollowed out political parties (Crouch) opening space for pseudo populist insurgents and (more difficult to track) atomism and anomie culturally

Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

Do you have a graph for the growth of household debt as a percent of GDP?

I mean is SNAP subsidizing low wages paid by corporations plus the profits of banks?

Our government should have bailed out Main Street so it could bail out banks by continuing to make its bank payments

Once the rapid response to stabilize banks had created enough stability