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Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Philip K. Dick's Exegesis ft. the Matrix plot (this was written in 1978).
🚀 We're hiring postdocs/assistant professors for my @erc.europa.eu project, TECHORDER, exploring how companies and states struggle over tech and global order.
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@greatdismal.bsky.social own interpretation as best as I recall is that the Matrix was PKD style gnosticism.
Doesn't there have to be minisubs in there somewhere?
Michael Kinsley remains undefeated
This was a fun conversation, even if I was coughing and wheezing my way through my own bits of it.
Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!
What made the conference on Cultural AI so interesting was the range of people involved — journalists and creative writers as well as people from industry and academia. Thanks to @leifw.bsky.social, @t-shoemaker.bsky.social, and other organizers!
these are all great books and everyone's list is different as it should be. I'd have taken three from here, and added Crowley's Little, Big, and also, to be controversial, Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, where a barely visible vein of faerie runs through the whole.
Non-IR people may not know that Caitlin wrote the definitive article on how Iran might target shipping through the Strait www.caitlintalmadge.com/uploads/8/5/...
they only made it available on streaming very late, with a note along the lines of 'we hadn't really thought about streaming but fans said we ought to.' Aso waiting for a US tour (but suspect we'll be waiting for a while - maybe next Dublin show won't sell out immediately and I can go home for it).
It is all so grim.
Since last year, the US has publicized a visa policy that targets & threatens people who study & report on online harms.
Yesterday @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a lawsuit challenging this censorship policy on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...
I found this report to be both startling and disturbing.
Still have fond memories of David Bernstein getting so so angry at Antonin Scalia School Of Law jokes
If you've read any of the other work of the original author of The Brave Little Toaster, it is not that far from form
Bleaked himself into derangement post September 2001 and personal tragedy but one of the truly great authors of dark futures. And a fine poet too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
A third sovereignty concern: your contractor is your ideological enemy, deeply embedded in government, with more resources than many nation states, and willing to use his power to undermine your policy goals. I don't think Dems have thought through if and how they would dislodge such contractors.
you should be deeply ashamed of yourself. Nevertheless www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxTp...
me too!
Nikkei opens down 3000
every word of this.
Greens holding on to first place in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Disastrous result for Merz’s conservatives and their SPD coalition partners which could trigger changes in Berlin
Seems particularly dodgy when a lot of legal scholarship now consists of JDs cosplaying as historians. And, as the birthright citizenship business shows, often in ways actual historians find laughably inept.
I'd have thought Daryl Issa had more fire in his belly.
One thing I have been wondering is if people overindex on Orban's control of media and undervalue his provision of handouts to unhappy rural voters who felt left behind. That has not been Trump's priority and it is harder anyways to carry off in the US system.
thank you for the recommendation. For the theory that I do, my recent review article www.annualreviews.org/content/jour..., and for the theory that I read, the most recent version of the syllabus that I teach on the political economy of AI www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...
Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.
if we're on classic British comedies with extended jokes about not mentioning the war www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tms0...
