Alex Campolo

Maybe it is the podcast format but truly one of the most superficial, self-congratulatory things I have read. Dabbling in various religions just not beating the “lifestylism” charges.

The UK’s fiscal problems aren’t just about growth Reassessing taxes and spending every six months introduces excessive policy uncertainty

How prescient does this sound now? “I would be wary of treating any five-year forecast as precise…To then reassess taxes and spending every six months based on these long-range estimates introduces volatility into fiscal policy, volatility that markets can amplify.” on.ft.com/47GT2Jt

"...and occasionally fabricated data during autonomous operations, claiming to have obtained credentials that didn't work or identifying critical discoveries that proved to be publicly available information." assets.anthropic.com/m/ec212e6566...

lol from the Anthropic report that they publicized as a bombshell on Chinese hacking: "An important limitation emerged during investigation: Claude frequently overstated findings..."

Radio DDR by Sharp Pins on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 14 Songs

WHAT a record music.apple.com/gb/album/rad...

Bubble or Nothing Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...

"Data centers are an asset with the characteristics of both real estate and infrastructure: Data centers have tenants, large tech companies, that are undertaking expensive long-term capital investment plays with fast-depreciating assets and minimal cash flow..." publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

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Such a good point. The people in the New Left Review have been using the phrase “political capitalism” to describe something like this dynamic - although they link it to long downturn theories, which I find hard to evaluate…

What a shot #SAFC

Between that and “let’s get carried away man”….

YOU GOT TIL THE END-ED #SAFC

TIL THE END #SAFC

This is just so obviously true. Glad to see people saying it without embarrassment. renewal.org.uk/blog/is-dsa-...

Meg White’s Drumming Spoke Louder Than Words

Nice appreciation of a singular musical force. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

lol

Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...

"Both views ignore what may be Mamdani’s most important contribution in the current moment: he has resurrected a universalist, redistributive, civic-egalitarian politics that had practically vanished from the national and international scene." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

LUX by ROSALÍA on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 15 Songs

Stunning. music.apple.com/gb/album/lux...

Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

How have we let this annihilation happen.

Nicholas Mulder, Interludes of Abundance, NLR 155, September–October 2025 Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of long-run capitalist history.

"Le monde confisqué argues that ‘finite capitalism’, a worldview and system that prevailed in the early modern period, re-emerged in the era of high imperialism and has returned again today, has been the dominant form of capitalism..." newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

NLR 155, September–October 2025 NLR 155, September–October 2025. Includes articles by Martín Mosquera, Dylan Riley, Robert Brenner, Owen Hatherley, Nan Z. Da, Nicholas Mulder and Gabriele Pedullà

New Riley - Brenner joint in the latest NLR newleftreview.org

🚨On November 12, we are delighted to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @alexcampolo.bsky.social as the opening speakers of the 2025/2026 Critical AI Seminar Series (online)✨

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Ackman, Bloomberg, assorted freaks on X, your boy Cuomo took a hell of a beating!

Happening now!

Helpless (with Joni Mitchell) by Neil Young on Apple Music Song · 2024 · Duration 5:42

Unreal version of “Helpless” with Joni Mitchell from the new archive series… music.apple.com/gb/album/hel...

COME ON #SAFC

Typically sharp essay from Kundani and Roy. But I was disappointed with the thinness of the historical and conceptual discussion of the idea of civilization itself - a brief nod to "the Enlightenment" boom - 20th century... One thinks of Elias, for example.... www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-cl...

This type of point - regarding China's world leading green energy sector, solar in particular - is so rarely made by people who lazily refer to government policy. It is a whole of society effort for which we should all be grateful. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

The Guardian view on Argentina’s election: one step closer to becoming a Trumpian client state | Ediorial Editorial: A $40bn rescue may have helped Javier Milei scrape through midterms, but it leaves Argentina’s democracy and economy more dependent than ever on Washington

"Milei’s Argentina, which has borrowed heavily in a currency – dollars – it lacks, is continuing with self-defeating austerity to maintain access to $40bn in American credit. This is a Potemkin stability." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...