who memed this lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

The smugness on this guy’s face. My concern isn’t that he’s going to hell for sowing so much violence in the world--it’s that he’ll take all of us with him because we put him in this position and called it democracy

given all the chatter about the bidenomics national security synthesis stuff and about "leapfrogging" china through innovative tech, it's important to highlight that we still need to massively scale up existing tech and this is probably the best way to do it--enabled by the IRA!

'We are living through the nightmare edition of "Great Men Make History."' Mike Davis's final published essay: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Martin Wolf: Manufacturing fetishism is destined to fail on.ft.com/4hGdWv3

This 👇 is* why I work at the Quincy Institute *one of several reasons

Mike Davis asked (2/22, NLR) and someone answered

This year, like every year, Archbishop Willie of Luckenbach wishes all y'all a merry Christmas!

"When people argue that fighting climate change requires the world’s rich countries to finance a massive industrial buildout, are they relying on assumptions about the necessity of economic growth?" Had a great chat with Gautama Mehta grist grist.org/international/…

Adam Tooze was just seen running through the streets of London a changed man. Apparently he was visited last night by three spectres of communism. He's recanted his left-liberalism and is organizing the workers.

unbelievable xiaohongshu is indeed named after the most nefarious force in the world. not communism. but Stanford

Voters don’t watch/finish a movie because of its runtime

17 THOUGHTS ON THE DEEPSEEK SELLOFF In today's newsletter, I wrote some things on the story of the day and "what it all means" Here's a few of them, and you can read the whole thing here --> bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

I don't think people realize how incredible it is that a movie rendered in nearly real-time in free software on a single computer just won the Oscar for best animated film. If there was ever any proof you don't need AI, this is it.

Does anyone know where to find 游击战 i.e. Mao's On guerilla war (1937) in simplified Mandarin online? The txt is here in English. marxists.org/reference/arch… But volume VI of the Selected Works is not in the online mandarin archive (as far as I can see) marxists.org/chinese/maozed…

Well, would you look at this... 😃

Taught the 2008 financial crisis. Had the students read a few chapters of Adam Tooze. One student submitted an...interesting reading response (shared with permission lol)

NYT editorial board, which hasnt written an editorial on climate change in almost 4 yrs, has written two editorials in as many days advocating increased military spending, sourced entirely from blob propagandists, painting a dark, paranoid vision of inevitable conflict with China