Sheinbaum consistently putting up Assad numbers by doing standard mid-20th-century / modern Chinese "the government should do things" managerialism is funny. People broadly like it when governments try to actually govern, oddly enough

The world's biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

lotta talk a lot about living in Verhoeven world but you gotta love when we see a classic case of J.G. Ballard

Almost certainly the greatest misallocation of capital you or I will ever see. There’s no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born.

As far as the Anglo consensus is concerned, Spain's assertive centre-left government did everything wrong: Keynesian, redistributive, socially open, net-zero-friendly, multilateralist, Trump-sceptical. Yet PSOE just hit 33% in latest CIS poll, above even its 2023 election win.

Simply no one doing it like him

Waterloo

lots of journos etc call themselves extremely online by which they mean doomscrolling twitter/instagram/tiktok. But the epicenters of online life are now suburbanized — they are in private discords, livestreams, and telegram chats. even the public ones are algorithm siloed.

I don’t really disagree with him but it is a bit frustrating to know that I too could have made a career by acquiring a Berlin hipster image and re-writing Weber for the airport bookshop.

hate being a hypocrite by quote tweeting this but every time a nazi says a truth they get platformed/boosted by people who think it’s indicative of the winds changing when it’s an opportunistic political tactic to appear rational to unsuspecting people and broaden their audience.

oh that? yeah that’s just The Pattern. you’re going to be Noticing it more lately.

When Dubai Was a Part of India Although largely forgotten today, in the early 20th Century, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was ruled as part of Britain's Indian Empire.

I'm putting together a collection

Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure with listening devices and killswitches? It sure would be dangerous if a corporation beholden to a brutal autocrat became structurally essential to your country's continued operations, huh? 1/

OK, you want my conspiracy theory. The ruling class has decided to “de-educate” the general population to force them into conventional corporate careers and to limit advanced thinking abilities to only a privileged and well-connected few. /1

Oh damn, Kohei Saito has entered into the techno-feudalism debate and his argument aligns with what me and Edward Ongweso Jr have been saying for a long time: Stop saying techno-feudalism, this is called rentier capitalism, and it's the basis for techno-fascism.

dneska je mi 40 a zároveň vychází Ádvojka s tématem, který jsem připravoval mé skromné přání (samozřejmě kromě volnosti, rovnosti a sesterství) — přečtěte si ho a dejte vědět, jestli jste z toho pochopili, co zhruba je ta postironie

obsessed with this essay

As an anthropologist I 100% agree. The Harper’s piece is extremely methodologically original, containing questionnaire data to accompany interview data, digital ethnography, and in-person ethnographic data. It is robust work by any standard—far beyond essentially all thinkpieces

I missed this when published, but Cornwall’s become the first part of the UK to produce olive oil