Yusuf

“Of the agreements Trump has reached, joint written statements or texts have only been produced for the deals with the UK and Indonesia, while some of the deals have featured differing accounts of the details between the two sides.”

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Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO —World Always Chickens Out
New Dispatch: Its actually EMPANDA—Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
@katemac.bsky.social @alanbeattie.bsky.social
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Historical materialism is OUT ❌

FAFO pendulum is IN ✅

Systemic cycles of accumulation and chaos in the world capitalist system: a missing link Abstract. We re-examine the systemic cycles of accumulation (SCA) of Arrighi (2010) and Arrighi and Silver (1999) which provide a framework for the analysi

FAFO 👏 PENDULUM 👏

@xanlopez.xyz

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I miss mastodon man

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1138730...

Terence Tao on how “Complex dynamics are going to require complex solutions”. Awesome thread.

How long is autumn? And does autumn actually matter?

Asking for a friend who is concerned about the health of a certain empire…

lareviewofbooks.org/article/autu...

policytensor.substack.com/p/the-longue...

on-air.caricomassimo.org/media/pages/...

Donald Trump’s Super Pac has amassed almost $200mn thanks to a big injection of cash from the crypto industry, giving the president an enormous war chest ahead of the 2026 congressional elections. on.ft.com/4m08Qf1

There is, I think, an exquisite wisdom in these three paragraphs from Moshin Hamid’s essay, “In the 21st century, we are all migrants”.

A big part of AI is about chores (Hindi speakers will get this).

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

If more academics started thinking like this, the world would be so much better off. This is what academia *should* be!

Even though academia has too many hot dog stand merchants, we can still choose to operate as a borderless, free-sharing, collaborative social ecosystem.

Hindutva nationalist bot farms on Xitter are having the most agonizing crisis of faith right now.

YouTube video by JFI - Jain Family Institute Monetizing Primacy: A panel with Karthik Sankaran, Brad Setser, and Mona Ali

Here’s a link to a great conversation hosted by @phenomenalworld & @QuincyInst with @MonaAli_NY_US & @Brad_Setser, moderated by @StynesMichael about the $, imbalances, global public goods (or not) and other themes related to “Monetizing Primacy.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qc9...

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Activist raises alarm over starvation and mass displacement in Sudan

#Sudan: Activist raises alarm over starvation and mass displacement

>> Over 100,000 children have starved to death in the past two months, on claims

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKa...

“Two visions of America under trump”

WE CAN DO IT

Rereading an oldie but goodie from @ripejournal.bsky.social, from a time when blunt openings like this one were more acceptable in academia:

"In many respects IPE is a vulgar, fraudulent discipline."

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Annotated Bibliography of Susan Strange's Academic Publications 1949-1999 The convention adopted is for each year to list journal articles, then chapters in books and then books (or standalone publications). (1949) 'Palestine and the UN' in: Yearbook of World Affairs: 1949 (London: Stevens): 151- 168. Strange comments on the UN deliberations concerning the future of Palestine and highlights he central factor that gave the Zionists an in-built advantage at the assembly. While the Arabs were negotiating in a state that was essentially antipathetic to their struggle, their opposite numbers were surrounded by sympathisers and supporters both within and outside the organisation. She also discusses some of the limitations and problems with such negotiations within the forum of the UN, and alludes to structural impediments to the 'fair' settlement of differences.

Stumbled across a web archive of Susan Strange’s work - the GOAT of International Political Economy.

susanstrange.org

There’s an annotated bibliography covering 50 years of her academic publications.

And what is the very first entry? PALESTINE AND THE UN

You’ve been Susan Strange’d

huge W

"voluntarily wind down fossil fuels"

LOL

i think gerrymandering makes sense, because america is historically a real estate scam, so why shouldn’t it be the land voting rather than people?

This is the analysis we produced that was cited in the Guardian's editorial on Saturday...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Huda Ammori Wins a Judicial Review of Palestine Action Proscription - Craig Murray On Wednesday we were crammed into the unsalubrious court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice to hear the judgment from Judge Chamberlain on whether Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action would be g...

Ex-ambassador Craig Murray on how the High Court bought the UK and Israeli governments another four months at least to use the police as a battering ram to terrorise Britons into silence on the Gaza genocide.
www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

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Some days I spend hours staring at this historical vehicle registration data compiled by @robbieandrew.bsky.social

robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Political Philosophy Podcast Podcast · Toby Buckle · Podcast by Toby Buckle

I just started a spotify for the podcast btw, if you use that give me a follow

open.spotify.com/show/1d6Bmbt...

Gotta write so I can go write the stuff I wanna write but also I wanted to write the first stuff but just at a different time. Anyways. Write.