The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Setting aside everything else, we're not even doing the categorical approach here?
02.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0who made this
02.03.2026 14:51 — 👍 8783 🔁 4079 💬 405 📌 373
This was the most interesting conversation I have had in a long time. Brilliant @azizaahmed.bsky.social talked to me about her new book & how feminists transformed the science of AIDS.
lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem...
Interesting: UK discourse is like a decade behind the US on this
01.03.2026 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.
28.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 1118 🔁 601 💬 12 📌 38Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.
28.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 1662 🔁 434 💬 16 📌 9
It’s not just Trump, not just Netanyahu
28.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That's about as clear as it gets on the motivation behind the attacks on higher ed.
Looks a lot like a 1A problem to me
oy
27.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm psyching myself up. Just talked to somebody with some experience litigating MLM cases...
27.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I feel like there should be a big shared doc where we can drop our ideas for projects that we know we'll never take on, so that students or scholars more inclined toward the idea could follow it through.
I'm like: I would send comments on a paper that argued X!
It's notable that, as @bridgetgillard.bsky.social shows, the MLM industry got started (a century ago!) with unregulated supplements (aka vitamins). Strains of magical thinking, entrepreneurship, and conservativism are longstanding
I am getting closer to convincing myself to write that review
This is a horseshoe theory I can get behind
27.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.
Did these investments shift public opinion?
We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.
Thread 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sure but my point is tech consolidation was not incumbents capturing regulators, it was insurgents charming them. And that could happen again. This time there is a substantial incumbent role
26.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is that your model of what happened in tech in the 2000s?
26.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’d bet hard against this one. Even if AI leads to disruption of business models, disruption will lead to reconsolidation absent governance mechanisms that stand in the way of
26.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
here we go
we'll see how Circle, Coinbase, and every other corporation actually at the table responds
what is banking?
bankingjournal.aba.com/2026/02/occ-...
A substantial part of the global far right media strategy is just describing consequences suffered by people who did heinous shit while leaving out the heinous shit that led to those consequences.
It's just the first panel of the goose meme over and over again
Obvious pickup here for the enterprising law review editor!
26.02.2026 02:35 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Some of the transcripts from this litigation are wild. They admit they just don’t know how to keep track of all the loans.
26.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Still available for law reviews! Otherwise going to have to rework it for a peer reviewed sociology journal or something.
26.02.2026 02:29 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Amazing how long this has taken, but thank goodness for Eileen's perseverance.
Meanwhile, they're still figuring out how to sell the whole portfolio and somehow rid themselves of the responsibility over future loans. (good luck) Whee!
Race to the top, bay-beeeeee
25.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
perhaps the most striking demonstration that permissioned stablecoin systems can enable mass surveillance. Please stop stressing the anonymity narrative
Total control of new monetary infrastructure will allow them to cut and freeze and choke with even more precision
www.ft.com/content/cf4f...
Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏
25.02.2026 04:39 — 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0They’re literally saying the opposite! It’s not subtle!
24.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
