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What is happening with the German economy? I had a great discussion with @maxkrahe.bsky.social from @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social, he had really interesting insights on both the economic and political dimensions of this whole question.
youtu.be/qXeX-DG3UOg?...

What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

best essay I've read in a while
>>Is the ostensible crisis of attention, at bottom, a crisis of authority? Is “People aren’t paying attention” just a dressed-up version of “People aren’t paying attention to me”?<< www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

which is ironic really, knowing the role Chinese tech plays in domestic societal control. so the scenario i sketched above would be 'cunning of reason', but we've seen stranger things. 2/2

never believed in the capitalist ideology that competition is always good. but since western societies seem to have run out of contestational energies, Chinese competition might be the only countervailing force against the distopia Silicon Valley has in store for our societies 1/

És ma gondoltál már a Római Birodalomra? Avagy az ókori Róma és a kortárs Nyugat hanyatlásáról

évindító szemle Peter Heather és John Rapley Why Empires Fall. Rome, America and the Future of the West c. kötetéről
koztes.substack.com/p/es-ma-gond...

for a moment after Dec 8, I wasn't sure that the re-run of the presidential election would bring even stronger far Right numbers, but the gov't decisions of the last week kinda guarantee it