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  • The year of technoligarchy

    In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/ more ›

  • A$AP Rocky – Punk Rocky (Official Video)

    LISTEN TO ‘PUNK ROCKY’ HERE: https://ift.tt/DO0GqIv PRE-SAVE/PRE-ADD ‘DON’T BE DUMB’ HERE: https://ift.tt/PEC0q9M FOLLOW A$AP ROCKY: FACEBOOK: https://ift.tt/KU5ibDm INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/Af95Itu TIKTOK: https://ift.tt/oLWC7Kg TWITTER: https://ift.tt/tU1805J WEBSITE: https://awge.com #ASAPROCKY #PUNKROCKY #DONTBEDUMB — more ›

  • The Powers That Be: Daily: The Making of an Interventionist

    Listen: https://ift.tt/I8PWAqH Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss Trump’s turn from isolationism to interventionism in the wake of the Venezuela raid. Drawing on Trump’s first term, Ioffe explains how earlier risk-free strikes taught him that he could attack foreign targets… more ›

  • Treat AI Like a Public Utility

    It seems increasingly likely that artificial intelligence will mean major changes to the economy and daily life. We need a public jobs program for displaced workers, and we should regulate AI as a public utility. https://jacobin.com/2025/07/artificial-intelligence-regulation-public-utility more ›

  • 3 clues to understanding your brain | VS Ramachandran

    http://www.ted.com Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED… more ›

  • Kate Crawford | Mapping Empires

    Just as linear perspective restructured how people recognized reality, generative AI is generating a new visual and political language. During the talk, Crawford gave us a tour through her detailed artwork Calculating Empires. Through examples ranging from Liebig’s critique of… more ›

  • Analyse Podcast: The AI Industry Is Building Modern Empires with Karen Hao

    Listen: https://ift.tt/UoJP0ar Fresh out of the studio, Karen Hao, investigative journalist and author of "Empire of AI" joined us in a conversation to unravel how companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have become modern empires reshaping society, labor, and democracy… more ›

  • Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? (With Anne Applebaum) | The David Frum Show

    David Frum is joined by The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum to react to the news of the American raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a special episode of The David Frum Show. Sign up for David Frum’s newsletter… more ›

  • Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

    On September 29, 2025, Bharat Chandar, postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and Ruyu Chen, research scientist at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, presented the findings of their recent paper “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about… more ›

  • 2025 letter | Dan Wang

    Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal’s Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair https://danwang.co/2025-letter/ more ›