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The linked review is so damning. The intellectual history approach to politics is bad enough on its own. So limited in what it can teach us about the state of the world. But when it is done dishonestly or at least extremely sloppily, it is totally broken.

Crucial context for how we think about AI's ecological impact: "a ChatGPT query uses 0.0029 KWh of electricity. Is that a lot? Not compared to running an electric oven for an hour, which uses 4 KWh." As with most things, the problem's not personal use but industry

By 2035 or so, it will become clear that AI’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Debord on the disappearance of bread, in one of his best passages

Just started using Slack and Discord for two different work projects (lucky me for having managed to avoid both so far). What is this stage of capitalism where a business productivity tool and a livestreaming platform for gamers have converged on exactly the same interface?

Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account. This is where we are.

Applies to DPI as much as to DOGE

Very cool to see the *absolutely massive* Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastucture out! It's all open access. cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

Not an easy read, but definitely one of the strongest Chartbooks so far adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-38…

The first letter here by China Mieville responding to Perry Anderson’s Streeck-esque anti-immigration ideas is just so succinct and so very good: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

INDIA:— AI startup "BuilderAI" has collapsed after it was revealed that there was no AI in it, but 700 Indian engineers, pretending to be AI bots.

Heartwarming: the two worst people you know are fighting.

I was recently interviewed in Invest in Open Infrastructure's Open Infrastructure Report on (the lack of) overlap between DPI and open infrastructures. Though DPI promoters claim openness, in practice these systems diverge significantly from stated principles investinopen.org/state-of-open-…

Pakistan’s embrace of crypto—fuelled by Chinese energy, sanctioned by the state and linked to the Trump family—has opened a new front in South Asia’s battle for digital dominance. Sushant Singh writes for The Morning Context.

Don't be creepy. Open up to everyone about what all data you collect. #CashlessConsumer

A reminder that even now, at the peak of Iran's attack, many more innocent people are being killed in Gaza than in Israel, and that you won't read a word about them in any Western news source. It's as if they are invisible, or at least regarded as subhuman, by our newsrooms

BBC director : "Cut Kneecap, show someone else, use anyone." BBC editor : "That Vylan guy?" BBC director : "Anyone!" Bob Vylan : [crowd chanting] "Death, Death to the IDF, Death Death to the IDF" 🤣🤣

I wrote something for Beyond Slavery on the flaws of the World Bank's technopolitics, especially as it pertains to the idea of the "middle-income trap" - thanks to Joel Quirk & co for the space to air my thoughts. opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…