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What will happen to U.S. economic power under Trump?

AI Fight Club and what it hides

The Management Singularity

Why did Silicon Valley turn right?

Not popularism. Not deliverism. Partyism

The PKD Dystopia

How chaotic is Trump II going to be?

Here's where we are

The cult of the founders

Preventing the future

The Engineer as Magus

"Small Yard, High Fence": These four words conceal a mess

After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?

The building blocks of state capacity liberalism

Trump's crazy plan to replace sanctions with tariffs

Shitposting, Shit-Mining and Shit-farming Redux

A syllabus for the new global politics

Patrick O'Brian is a Great Conservative Writer

[A new piece in the Economist] There's a killer app for Large Language Models

Even if AI makes art, it may be bad for culture

Silicon Valley is an aristocratic culture

Illiberalism is not the cure for neoliberalism.

What went wrong with the Silicon Valley right

Seeing Like a Matt

High Modernism made our world

What Should We Do With Vibes-Based Analysis?

Underground Empire is a Prime Day deal

Silicon Valley and the Second American Century

When AIs outperform the experts that train them, is that AGI?

Dictators are plagued by information problems too

Icehenge

Google AI fails the taste test

Large Language Models are Uncanny

Vico's Singularity

The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Seuss

Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis

Today's hackers wear green eyeshades, not mirrorshades

The making of Icehenge

Kicking against the Ticks

The Apocalyptic Systems Thriller as a non-fiction genre

Power: A Primer for Perplexed Economists

Rabbit-holes, zombies and platform pathologies

Dr. Pangloss's Panopticon

The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI

Why this is not a paid newsletter

Elon Musk and the power of the bro-code

Kevin Roose's Shoggoth

If post-neoliberalism is in trouble, we're all in trouble

ChatGPT is an engine of cultural transmission

The political economy of Blurry JPEGs