Like, what do you even do with this lol

look energy handles nukes and a nuclear apocalypse is the only way this could be true so he might be warning us

just a few more weeks! come for the exposé on tech billionaires, stay for Meiji industrialization and 20th century intellectual history

The real question is did the minions serve Cromwell

just a few more weeks! come for the exposé on tech billionaires, stay for Meiji industrialization and 20th century intellectual history

I remember one of these house episodes (hope you're okay and it proves easy to resolve!)

Finally US pub day for this little monster co-birthed with my friend @bentarnoff.com, an adventure that made made us closer, neither of us would have had the stomach for it alone!

Grab a copy today! bookshop.org/p/books/musk...

Hey! Look!

A maritime history workshop on women and the sea, with online registration open, happening next week!

www.swaan.org/registration

Check out the program!
www.swaan.org/program

#maritimehistory #swaanproject

the cold war teachers and professors responsible for the program's original design excluded courses like this because they wanted their students to experience liberal education before professionalization or specialization

65. Beff Jezos (@BasedBeffJezos), Twitter, June 16, 2024, 7:28 p.m. ET. 66. “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter,” Future of Life Institute, March 22, 2023. 67. Keach Hagey, “The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing from OpenAI,” Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2025. 68. Jeffrey Dastin et al., “OpenAI Appoints New Boss as Sam Altman Joins Microsoft,” Reuters, November 21, 2023; Jeffrey Dastin and Aditya Soni, “Sam Altman to Return as OpenAI CEO After His Tumultuous Ouster,” Reuters, November 22, 2023; Luciana Lopez, “Economist Larry Summers Joins the Board of OpenAI as Ousted CEO Sam Altman Returns,” cnn.com, November 22, 2023. 69. Marc Andreessen, “The Techno- Optimist Manifesto,” Andreessen Horowitz, October 16, 2023, a16z.com. 70. Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions (William Morrow, 1987)

had to double check the notes to remind myself if i cut that bit (i did not) and wow this was a cursed series of footnotes

it also has a misquote of buckminster fuller that appears to be based on an old wikipedia summary, because andreesen doesn't read

man wants the oscar for best hospital bed performance

thankfully so far everyone has wanted to excerpt earlier stuff in my book, which at least avoids this, although i don't know how well Herbert Spencer in Japan is going to do for getting clicks

student protesters adopted the language of harm, trauma, offense, and identity in part because it was a discourse the university bureaucracy understood and was required to address. it was effective. after that adults never stopped punishing young people for speaking that way.

Trump proposing new ways to punish the humanities:

there's no academic freedom in Texas's public universities

but there's no academic freedom wherever a billionaire or a state governor can exercise a veto over what gets researched or taught and be confident that university administrators will enforce it -- whether the rationale is morals or markets

Britain’s Bathroom Ban The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

& they've not just failed to oppose, they've actively attacked - profoundly attacked - the rights of minorities

in hobbesian terms - a protection racket has to actually protect for it to be viable!

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

thinking about the bits in foundation where the all-knowing psychic supermen with faster than light travel and scientific precognition pull out a slide rule

if you want to know how the last 400 years made this possible I wrote a book about it

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?

Control Science Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven­teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so...

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if you want to know how the last 400 years made this possible I wrote a book about it

this one has been great in the classroom lately, in the worst way

just reset our wifi, how many times has the strait reopened and closed while it was down

Is there a classic rederence for thinking about military history from a labor history perspective? "War workers" and so on? 🗃️

going to write up something on this for somewhere with as big a platform as I can ASAP i think

i have seen enough to concur this is the fourth amendment LLM issue everyone thinks it is. we have the fourth amendment for good reason and no new technology should ever provide a shortcut around it

for my third book i am going to immanentize the eschaton

i have waded into the vibecession debate. don't make me do it again
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not enough marine dinosaurs on here america we gotta do better