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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

Blitzscaling for tyrants

We need usable futures

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)

More me

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

We're getting the social media crisis wrong

Programmable Mutter: where it's been and where it's going.