"if you are worried about an upsurge of protectionism, or the risks of America’s foreign liabilities, then your main focus should not be on “global imbalances”. Your main focus should be on the disintegration of coherent political decision-making in Washington" adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
Seen elsewhere...
"“Every policy reversal is getting absorbed faster than the last. This might look like resilience, but it’s actually desensitisation.” www.ft.com/content/7227...
Incredibly depressing framing. University as rage bait. Students can go literally anywhere online and be shocked and offended - it’s all there is. At a university they should be enlightened, elevated and passionately pursue truth, goodness, and beauty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“if the deal only worked at inflated loan-to-value (LTV) ratios based on peak-cycle valuations - it often ended up in private credit, which was effectively lending against LTV rather than durable cash flow” www.ft.com/content/e57d...
Yeah hopefully he will learn from that. Need to be ruthless.
Diarra ffs man #SAFC
Mamdani derangement syndrome: the right’s psychotic reaction to a decent politician.
Michael Mann 🤯 implying state theories can be adjudicated on the battlefield: “The final (deeply ironic) outcome was that militarist theory [of the state] was defeated on the battlefield by the combined forces of (Marxist) Russia and the (liberal democratic and functionalist) Western allies.”
The Chinese government has passed a new law regulating "anthropomorphic interaction services" in AI: www.cac.gov.cn/2025-12/27/c...
🚨🚨🚨 THE HYPER-BURGER
"From Agency to Execution: The Atrophy of Discretion in Everyday Life - Hartmut Rosa"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnR6...
Tomorrow I will give a talk at the conference "Statecraft, Sovereignty & Digital Government," at Goldsmiths University London. digitalstatecraft2026.org
Here is my abstract, happy to share the full chapter if of interest.
The world’s best film director, Jia Zhangke, recently released a short created with the seedance 2.0 AI model. youtu.be/tpRUevWgJmc?...
yeahhhhh this is gonna one shot me....
Incredible lol. Trump and Witkoffs' kids crypto company/scam operates in environment where literally everything is a scam so they are forced to add disclaimers like this on their social media.
"This week, the war in Sudan enters its fourth year. The cost to our people has been severe. At least 150,000 are dead, 19mn face severe food shortages and 12mn have been forced to flee their homes." www.ft.com/content/4ff2...
This is so cool. Someone coded a searchable web player to access Aadam Jacobs' absolutely massive archive of live recordings on Chicago. Now zoning The Feelies Live at the Cubby Bear 1988. aadamjacobs.dunlap.ai
"A human listener, by contrast, does more than interpret and respond to what they understand. They also take in what is not yet known, exploring it before it settles into something recognisable. They listen for meaning that has not yet fully formed..." www.ft.com/content/e085...
With the usual caveats about adapting clinical categories to politics and the more general tendency to make polemical appeals about "reality" - psychosis seems apt. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...
Unlike so much of the machine learning literature, which is basically ephemeral, I find this 2022 article by Jacob Andreas to have a real, lasting depth. arxiv.org/abs/2212.01681
Israel’s response to the “cease fire” is to rain bombs on Lebanon
"consider the 'trivial' question of our civic language...that helped assure the idea of a public realm, a res publica that at least claimed to transcend our rulers’ whims and our plutocrats’ ability to claim that their wealth...legitimated their right to rule." csmaier.substack.com/p/rearview-m...
Hard to escape the telos of modernization….
A civilization is dying, but not the one he thinks…
“Americans don’t particularly like endless wars, but it’s been years since they opposed them all that actively…” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...
