Henry Farrell

Look forward!

Is it coming out in the US too?

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Varieties of Civil Society Toward a taxonomy

Trying to square the circle here between Dylan O'Riley and @himself.bsky.social on civil society: publiccomment.blog/p/varieties-...

Three Readings About Artificial Intelligence If you're into that sort of thing.

So I’m hearing that AI is kind of a big deal. Here’s some stuff worth reading about it. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

a giant walks amongst us

still have @sifu.tweety.fish right here on this here platform.

It's fafblog that I miss

No. That was Kim duToit. If anyone ever writes the True History of the Old Blogosphere, I will be the toothless dude on the porch boring the researcher with his stories of how things used to be

The Bullshit Moose is at ADL I think? But Steven den Beste was the most unforgettable of them god rest his soul

more or less unrelated, but on absconding royals and their army raising antics, I was startled, not knowing much English history, to discover that Prince Rupert of the Drops was also one of the worst arsehole Royalist generals in the Civil War.

This is unsurprisingly good

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That Democratic post-mortem A report reaches the conclusions it wanted to reach

smotus.substack.com/p/that-democ... A new and useful argument in a debate that is mostly rehashing old grievances. Polls won't give us useful information about policies/messaging strategies in current media environment if they frame questions differently than the strategies they're critiquing.

Oooooooooh…..

This picks up an earlier thread from @alisongopnik.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social Cosma Shalizi & James Evans -- AI as cultural technology. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Bad to worse for Sino-German ties:

The "flagship" German-Chinese business event has been cancelled, less than a week after FM Wadephul cancelled his own trip...

AI as Governance Political scientists have had remarkably little to say about artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps because they are dissuaded by its technical complexity and by current debates about whether AI might ...

AI as governance -- @himself.bsky.social on how AI reshapes markets, bureaucracy, democracy...and culture. Very happy ot see this getting the mainstream social science treatment.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... I can't believe I missed this paper coming out!

GSS Release Trends in the immameco question. Release 2 of the 2024 GSS cross-section and 1972-2024 culumative data are now available. I’ve updated gssr and gssrdoc to incorporate them. There are quite a...

New GSS release means new gssr and gssrdoc, and a bonus graph about opinion on immigration. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

(3) Pollsters like to test messages with captured audiences who are being paid to pay attention. That isn’t reality. It’s pretend.

No such circumstances exist outside of their experimental settings.

The fight over attention is the central fulcrum point of contemporary politics.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social recent book builds on Simon's earlier work on attention in some very useful ways, and may be interested in the final sentence in particular. Also, @dsquareddigest.bsky.social The Unaccountability Machine.

thanks - this is a very useful summary view of the alternative perspective on civil society (it's interesting that Riley doesn't at all refer to the liberal tradition that I'm trying to highlight or seem to know about it; the debate on civil society seems pretty murky)

Informed, astute, highly relevant and well worth your time.

Trump's Reordered Trading System The US president is signing trade agreements and "framework" deals on a tour of Asia this week

Welcome to the choose-your-own-adventure economy.

My latest for the @bloomberg.com Supply Lines newsletter on what this past weekend told us about the plot lines in this global economy. And why they all look fraught…

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The Musk Partisan Effect on Tesla Sales Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles." www.nber.org/papers/w34413

Meanwhile the Tesla board chair is asking shareholders to approve a $1 TRILLION compensation plan for Musk.

Sharp, thorough, well worth your time to read.

“… dingbat Gramscianism, as filtered through the turd-encrusted sieve of Curtis Yarvin Thought” had me loling enough to startle the puppy

An update to this story: Today, the Michigan Court of Appeals held that a writ of mandamus shall issue to require the Legislature to present these 9 bills to the Governor for her to sign or veto.

AI friends too cheap to meter “Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”

jasmi.news/p/ai-friends... This is very good, and close in some ways to the Fourcade and @kjhealy.co account of social media, under which it's co-constituted by users rather than being forced on them.

The depressing truth is that I've never read Constant directly - just about him! (I'm not a real political theorist - just a sporadic reader of the literature).