Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

The 30 trillion in off balance sheet US dollars/denominated assets is similar to Satoshi’s absence.

Introduction and Table of Contents to Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy (in print October 2025) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… researchgate.net/publication/39…

Most of crypto works best not scaling. Serving as general collateral is dangerous to scene and economy, driven by liquidity want, and doubles down on crypto as payment - NewFi. Stable coins not like rest of crypto though, and where future fights take place dom/geo levels.

1/ MONEY BY VILE MEANS Over 10 years in the making and one of Compact's longest essays ever. This is my definitive deep dive guide to critique Bitcoin. From libertarian ideal to cynical state capture, I debunk the myths of Bitcoin and reveal its dark reality.

This is the most detailed view of a human cell to date

Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE) website: humanities.manchester.ac.uk/law/research/r…. #EAEPE Institute for Global Law & Policy Young Scholars Initiative Law and Political Economy in Europe The LPE Project LPE Collective UoM Law

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Anyone going on US law school job market this year with a 'law and political economy' adjascent set of interests?

Podcast + AI Animated Visualisation as one of the new communication/art formats going forward.

when get caught up with the hubbub of work, this album taps my shoulder youtube.com/watch?v=sxKeP_…

Over coming decade, ( a la Freud's 'omnipotence of thought' embodied in) AI/dig tech will lead to a fetishization of 'great ethereal minds' and increasing devaluation of the human body(ies). Money, as a global casino, will be gatekeeper for placing people w/in this pyramid.

Financial Times discussing a significant aspect of what going on with current crypto pump and its opportunities and dangers ft.com/content/8a160b…

The empirically demonstrated inability of experts to predict 1-5 year market trends forbes.com/sites/georgeca…

"They could not have suspected that the time... already here, and this precisely is modern times - when those who do not gamble lose all the time, even more assuredly than those who do." - C. Peguy, L'Argent

Pictures from this year's Summer Academy for Global Law and Political Economy. :) roccellasummerschool.org/glpe-summer-ac…

Social media - YouTube shorts, TikTok, etc - probably lose a lot of appeal in nice can’t distinguish slice of life from AI generation… or people fall in love with the simulation for its own sake.

Peace is not hard to have, it lies more near Than breathing to the breast. When brigand powers Of anger or pain or the sick dream of sin Break our soul’s house outside the ruins we weep. We look through the breached wall... All the red while our peace was lying asleep. - RJ25'

21st century reigning ideology can be defined as insisting that the world and all its relationships are transactions all the way down w/ a theological twist: that you (or the company, etc) are the sum of transactions and also the agent of transactions.