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Brave New World | Herman Mark Schwartz A third industrial divide?

thanks @adamtooze.bsky.social for the shout out in
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to this, which got lost in the holiday 2024 season
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Trump's Dollar | Steffen Murau Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem
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@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Look here for the bigger body of work:
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@keanbirch.bsky.social

How to Tax AI Sami Mahroum proposes levies on the computational time consumed by AI systems in lieu of unworkable "robot taxes."

A tax on the computational time consumed by AI systems would make labor displacement marginally costlier than augmentation without suppressing innovation, Sami Mahroum explains. bit.ly/44NTKCK

Central Banking for the End of Times Frankfurt measured the risk, Beijing moved the money, and Washington looked away.

nice read from @cornelban.bsky.social 'price stability and planetary stability can no longer be separated. Every rate hike now carries climate consequences. Liquidity provision has become a form of environmental policy—whether central bankers admit it or not' geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

Game Over: The End of Financial Regulation as We Knew It Many on the left continue to view cryptocurrency as little more than a grift. Yet the crypto industry aims to achieve something much more dangerous: functional monetary sovereignty.

Today, @raulcarrillo.bsky.social explains why existing legal frameworks are inadequate to address the emerging dystopian world of monetary fiefdoms—a world in which private infrastructure governs without the name of government.

A Global Euro | Phenomenal World With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?

In this moment of profound uncertainty over the global monetary order, Europe needs to move swiftly on becoming a truly global currency issuer, writes @shahinvallee.bsky.social at @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Us & China are rolling out plans…
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How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again) The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the…

Today, @rohangrey.bsky.social kicks off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, by considering the Left's missed opportunities and explaining how it can reclaim control over the future of money.

New article! "Tokenization of everything? Exploring the limits of blockchain technologies in the governance of financial markets and assets" led by Anetta Proskurovska

If you want to learn about #tokenization in #finance & #financialmarkets then check it out

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How to stop the revolving door of German academia Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

Book cover of "The AI Matrix" by Daniel Mügge, Regine Paul and Vali Stan, showing a world map, hands grabbing Dollar bills, a robot arm and interconnected cables

Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)

“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Am 27.11. startet unser neues Kolloquium 'Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken' am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social mit einem Vortrag von Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Diskussion zur Agency von generativer KI! Infos zum gesamten Programm finden sich hier: buff.ly/5VIZO0C

No Alternative? | Max Krahé On The Triumph of Broken Promises by Fritz Bartel

"Both Perestroika and Thatcherism were easier said than done. While both sides eventually concluded that there was no alternative to breaking promises, only the West could actually do it."

From the archive, @maxkrahe.bsky.social on "The Triumph of Broken Promises"

Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar Trump and the Federal Reserve.

New piece about MAGA's Fed strategy:

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In Critical Condition – How To Stabilize Researcher Data Access? | TechPolicy.Press Mark Scott and LK Seiling discuss the struggle for researcher access to social media data and an alternative future where transparency is seen as a civic good.

@lkseiling.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social plea in @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a new data access regime emerging from a "generation of decentralized platforms that treat data transparency not as a regulatory burden but as a civic and scientific good"

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Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware | TechCrunch Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly…

Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware

The latest example is a political consultant who works for left-wing politicians in Italy, who came out as the most recently confirmed victim of Paragon spyware in the country.

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#CyberSecurity #Privacy

How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
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Jan-Werner Müller · Was ist demokratisch am «demokratischen Faschismus»? Mit ihrem Begriff des «libertären Autoritarismus» bestimmten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey die Post-Pandemie-Diskussion über neue und aggressive politische Lagerbildungen. Ihr Buch Zerstörungsl...

Was taugt der Begriff "demokratischer Faschismus"?

Eine Rezension:

Pleased to be presenting here in Berlin—program here: transatlantic-reason.info

Meme of Bernie Sanders

The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.

The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now

#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky

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Wege zu fairer und offener KI-Governance Welche Rahmenbedingungen sind für die verantwortliche Gestaltung von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Open Science notwendig? Zwei neue Veröffentlichungen bündeln Konferenzergebnisse und entwickeln Handlun...

Wie kann KI offen & verantwortungsvoll gestaltet werden? Zwei neue Publikationen fassen Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Yes, we are open!?“ zusammen. Die Veröffentlichungen bieten Empfehlungen für Politik & Praxis – für eine faire, zukunftsfähige KI. 🌍🤖 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Dylan Riley, Contra Arendt — Sidecar On civil society.

"Civil society, as Gramsci understood, and as today’s liberals do not, is a terrain of struggle. It is not, and cannot be, an agent."
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Symbolgrafik mit Computerbildschirm und den Sprechblasen "Yes" und "No".

"5 Jahre nach dem DeFi Summer: Eine kritische Reflexion zu den Demokratieversprechen der Decentralized-Finance-Industrie"
Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Tara Merk setzt sich im Beitrag für unseren Blog vor allem mit DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) auseinander.
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Check out our latest bulletin, which marks the official launch of our redesigned website (ecsa.io)

Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? An expanded repost from Twitter/X

Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?

Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?

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Computer Science and Civil Courage - Boston Review Are the questions we seek to answer to be dictated by the powerful few, or are they to be open to debate among citizens and scientists?

He was not as old as that image from the Wikipedia, but he was a young man either, and matters seemed to weigh on him. Not a frivilous person

This piece by him in 1982 from @bostonreview.bsky.social remains relevant