Tag: geopolitics

• Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

  March 16, 2025

  American investor Peter Thiel is involved in several of the intellectual currents I cover – transhumanism and the new eugenics, psychedelics and the FDA, and the rise of the Tech… more ›

• AI’s seductive mirage.

  March 15, 2025

  tl;dr: AI systems seem like things which appear seductively like autonomous meaning-making entities but are actually tools which can’t make meaning on their own (for now). Understanding this seductive mirage… more ›

• Analysis: How to value Africa’s natural wealth in global finance

  March 10, 2025

  Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has long been the world’s main measure of economic success, rewarding activities that generate immediate financial returns. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/10/2025/how-to-value-africas-natural-wealth-in-global-finance more ›

• One Word Describes Trump

  March 9, 2025

  Even those who expected the worst from his reelection (I among them) expected more rationality. Today, it is clear that what has happened since January 20 is not just a… more ›

• Sins of the Father

  March 9, 2025

  It’s no wonder so many people are confused about how to make sense of Trump’s second term. On January 20, 2025, Americans experienced far more than a shift in the… more ›

• Trump, Museveni and the anti-LGBT agenda

  March 7, 2025

  Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the… more ›

• The New Fascist International: Technocratic Oligarchy and the Threat to Democracy

  March 2, 2025

  The emergence of a transnational alliance between tech billionaires, authoritarian politicians, and far-right movements represents both a continuation of historical patterns and something unprecedented in human history. https://harmoniousdiscourse.substack.com/p/the-new-fascist-international-technocratic more ›

• Looking Ahead To The 19th Century

  February 23, 2025

  The rules-based liberal international order, underwritten and guaranteed for decades by American might, has been consigned to the ashcan of history by the summary defection of its founding architect from… more ›

• The Dirty Business That’s Stopping Climate Change

  February 19, 2025

  For the very first time in Switzerland, a major commodities trading firm was being tried in what serves as the country’s highest criminal court. The case was brought by a Swiss corruption… more ›

• Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure

  February 15, 2025

  Today, we’re announcing our most ambitious subsea cable endeavor yet: Project Waterworth. https://engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/connectivity/project-waterworth-ai-subsea-infrastructure/ more ›