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Great Tweet.

Fingers crossed? Not really. But this is one of the core questions and dynamics I will be following in the coming weeks.

Wrote this talk especially for the graduate students I work with. In it, you learn why I do what I do and about my book project, A Good History of S*** Jobs, a history of economic hardship in the US, including reflection on the PMC and resentment politics. youtube.com/live/9jEATBxin…

Has anyone been talking or writing about how uncomfortable it is - I mean, it downright hurts - to rooting for Harvard?

Podcast with Jeffrey Lee Funk about his book Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles. Discusses perspectives for identifying technology bubbles, recent bubbles, and the likely current bubble centered on generative AI. @sts_news jeffrey lee funk thepodcastbrowser.com/jeffrey-lee-fu…

Damn. I would like to hear more details. But the field's response to Generative AI might be the most depressing thing I've experienced in my career and has me heading for the hills . . . actually to a creek in the woods, but you get what I mean.

Just learned about this cool hype studies conference: (DON'T) BELIEVE THE HYPE, involving Dani Shanley and other smart folks. Event September 10-12, abstracts due May 10. hypestudies.org/conference

I appreciated Adam Tooze's critique of Naomi Klein's and Astra Taylor's talk of “end times fascism.” Such terms are thrown around so loosely these days and obscure more than they clarify. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

GOOD ONE. This is the correct take.

Increasingly clear how little the intellectual history approach to politics is getting us. Among other things, it can't explain electoral politics or why alliances are shifting.

This is so, so hilarious. A+ tweet. I have managed to dodge the Abundance debate, but it does seem like the kind of thing people talk about . . . when there is nothing to really talk about.

Happens to the best of us sometimes.

The American consumer will not be denied. That, if anything, should be the lesson of policymaking from COVID to the present.

I've been waiting for someone to compile what we know + don't know about the environmental impacts of "AI." Sam does a fine job. While there are real impacts, it's also clear people have been significantly overplaying them, especially in comparison to lots of ordinary activities.

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.

Yes, this was a fun article to get interviewed for.

>Jonathan Stray, did you see this? I feel zero need to cherrypick and argue this is part of a larger trend because I honestly don't know, but I thought it was interesting. livemint.com/companies/news…

Who possibly could have foreseen it?