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Trump's University Compact demonstrates weakness, not strength
The Aaron Swartz production function
Repost: Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
Understanding AI as a social technology
Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions
Process knowledge is crucial to economic development
Short posts on useful concepts I : Flattery Inflation
The twilight of tech unilateralism
Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
The AI democracy debate is weirdly narrow
The old Democratic party doesn't fit new media
The Rich Are Not Like You and Me
This Simple Chart Explains Why Columbia Caved To Trump
When tech CEOs are like grumpy ducklings
The enshittification of American hegemony
The Political Economy of AI: A Syllabus
Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early
We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum
Markets, Bureaucracy, Democracy, ... AI?
Flexibility, slag heaps and bombs
Vico's Singularity [republished]
The Federalist Society claims it's just a debating club
Underground Empire is on sale for Kindle
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions
Why China is going it alone on technology
More me (now with link to Friday discussion)
The reactionary right is not a monolith
Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
The attention economy is devouring politics
ChatGPT is great at Stakhanovite propaganda
Coming up with an alternative Silicon Valley canon
Silicon Valley's thing about Great Men
When the polycrisis hits the omnishambles, what comes next?
What happens when economic coercion meets the bitcoin bros?
Trump is weaponizing financial payments: here's what you can do.
The Trump administration is a crime magnet
Weaponizing government isn't what the Musk faction says
DOGE is ripping out the guts of government
The Sorrowful Tale of the Dread Pirate Roberts
America's plan to control global AI