Published today: Angus Stewart's interview with LYU Guangzhao about Lyu's The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction! bigother.com/2025/08/19/pul…

MONDO 2000 art director Bart Nagel at Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids at Gulf of Deliria at Gray Area San Francisco June 7 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=5a9HuN…

The most brilliant Count, alien, beautiful and exqusite. The ruthless Baron. The most loving friend.

Issue 66.3 is out! included are articles on Philip K. Dick, THE WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, and book reviews. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/extr/66/3 Liverpool University Press Palgrave Macmillan Springer Nature Columbia University Press Univ Press of MS McFarland Bloomsbury Academic Rowman & Littlefield Open Book Publishers

Gute Fahrt Udo Kier shapeshifter, alien und Dracula. Grosser Verlust. Hier ist ein Musik video mit Kier: youtu.be/pDsX9FV50vE?si…

Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart. It’s always been about the prices of essentials.

"synthetic storytellers" by Anne Sigrid Refsum mdpi.com/2076-0787/14/1…

Why Not Everything is Automated in Manufacturing (Yet) Even in an era of AI and dark factories, automation is lagging behind promises, particularly in the United States. Why is this happening? open.substack.com/pub/itcanthink…

How can a cell that’s unable to process nutrients or grow on its own be alive? quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mini…

Between 2020 and 2024, China’s direct investment in Mexico jumped from $85 million to $710 million. Offices of Huawei, TikTok, BYD, and Shein have all opened in the ritzy Nuevo Polanco area. So have a host of Chinese restaurants and shops to serve them restofworld.org/2025/chinese-t…

Zohran’s win is the most exciting moment for American socialists in generations. The 60th issue of Jacobin examines the history of municipal socialism as the Left prepares to occupy executive office in one of the world’s biggest cities. From “Red Vienna” to Milwaukee’s sewer

Cover Reveal! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026. How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it. I’ll discuss on KQED Forum at 10 am on Monday!

Incredible book selection. When I read "The Habsburgs" it changed my view of the break-up of Yugoslavia; when I read "The origins..", it changed my view of the outbreak of WW2. And I still remember the Summer when I read the "Struggle for mastery..."

Good interview of Ha-Joon Chang on the Indian economy and on developments economics more generally. frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/ind…

Great article by Eduardo Porter. Link: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…

Finally last minute cutting through the red tape bullshit.

#production #labour #process #raspi #wales Always illuminating to see how a Raspberry Pi computer gets assembled, baked and where precisely. This shows how much I miss the factory tours from my high-school days. youtu.be/k2C4lbbIH0c?si…

Here's my interview with Paulina Borsook (referenced in the NYT story): The Woman Who Saw Tech Fascism Coming. youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZ…