Heute bin ich auch vom Glücksvirus befallen: Ich durfte für die @faznet.bsky.social Geisteswissenschaften (heute in der Zeitung) meine Überlegungen zur Serie „Pluribus“ aufschreiben. Vielen Dank an @pbahners.bsky.social für die Anregung zum Artikel.
@frou-frou.bsky.social
This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.
US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower
A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing.
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Straight off the redeye with a relaxing multihour interview with @tilojung.bsky.social right before to limber the limbs
Episode #232: The War on Iran
The war on Iran launched a week ago by Israel and the United States is spiraling into a regional conflict with implications for the global economy. Hosts @adamtooze.bsky.social and Cameron Abadi discuss: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
There are 92 million Iranians
new episode out today! we discuss Horkheimer's essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", asking what actually makes critical theory critical, and whether there's any genuinely critical theory going on right now. the social totality causing all kinds of problems rn fr www.patreon.com/posts/130-ma...
"you best start believing in catastrophic energy shocks - you're in one"
fresh audio product:
* Behrooz Ghamari, author of The Long War on Iran, on the politics and culture of the country
• Anatol Lieven on the effects of the war on Iran on the region and world
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
“Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered
the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods
which interest dictates and credulity encourages.”
—Samuel Johnson (1758)
Quite an opening paragraph.
For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains
hier hätte der verfassungsschutz imo mal ein auge drauf werfen sollen
Wie wurde aus Elon Musk eine Schlüsselfigur der globalen Rechten? Quinn Slobodian und Ben Tarnoff gehen dieser Frage auf den Grund. In ihrem aktuellen Buch analysieren sie den sogenannten «Muskismus». Die WOZ holt die Autoren am 11. März 2026 nach Zürich: www.woz.ch/muskismus
Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.
Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.
Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
White House talking points for congressional Republicans say we're not at war, we're just in "major combat operations against Iran" lol
Sparsamer Staat: Die Schuldenbremse schränkt die Spendierlaune der Schweiz ein. Aber ist sie noch zeitgemäss? @yvesgwegelin.bsky.social zeigt auf, dass die verschiedenen Faktoren, die der eidgenössischen Knausrigkeit zugrunde liegen, durchaus eine gewisse Grosszügigkeit zulassen würden.
Top 6 most emotional Star Trek episodes:
The Visitor (DS9)
The Inner Light (TNG)
Real Life (VOY)
The Conscience of the King (TOS)
Duet (DS9)
Darmok (TNG)
These are also all absolute banger episodes fwiw. Couldn't pick just 5 cos I was medically incapable of cutting any of these from my list.
Die schlimmsten Schreibtischtäter und militaristischen Aufpuscher unserer Gegenwart sitzen im NZZ-Deutschlandbüro
Jesus this book is tedious. The authors like to explain everything through little made up fables and fictional dialog between anthropomorphized characters. Just skipping page after page of nonsense writing.
The path to a post-American world is punctuated by cycles where US air and naval power secure overwhelming short term tactical victories that the US no longer has the wider capacity to turn into anything other than long term strategic chaos.
But the longue duree won't help the IRGC much now
So if much of the more liberal core of Toryism has found its home in the LibDems, liberal progressive and left-leaning voters are drifting to the Greens, and socially conservative and far right voters are defecting to Reform..
...where does that still leave a niche for Labour and the Conservatives?
As well as @coreypein.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social @fmaschewski.bsky.social @unddieregel.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @jacobsilverman.com @gregegansf.bsky.social @evgenymorozov.bsky.social @parismarx.com
Might be of interest to @xriskology.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social @adambecker.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @adriandaub.bsky.social @bvlsingler.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social @onachtwey.bsky.social @camlinger.bsky.social
My Paper on the Ethics of Virtual Reality has been published in "Ethics and Information Technology: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
crazy to me that no one at youtube or google is ever even, like, asked about this stuff anymore, let alone pushed to take responsibility. regardless of whether a PRMC/moral majority-type campaign would be a good idea, is the respectable center really so anemic/captured that it won't even try?
New ETV is out for everyone! I'm joined by @add-hawk.bsky.social to discuss his new book The Score. Really fun chat on the nature of games, the challenges of society at scale, and whether the problem is bigger than just capitalism. Enjoy!
the internal politics of the Three Body Problem are so fascinating
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