It’s exactly a month until my book publishes on 9 April! THE ASSET CLASS is a narrative investigation of private equity, a relentlessly destructive wing of finance that infiltrates almost every corner of modern life. Here are some of the very generous things that people have said about it so far…
A fascinating approach, highly recommended
Managed to go to both presentations and the information, the method and the framework of analysis just keeps giving. So check out future dates in case you get a chance to attend, definitely worth it.
Didnt notice any cameras/microphones but can’t be sure. @quinnslobodian.com @bentarnoff.com ?
If you’re at loose ends in Mitte…
Man sieht in barfuß, mit dem Schild durch die Straßen laufen. Den meisten Aufnahmen wurde das Schild retuschiert.
Auf dem Foto läuft er mitten in der Polizei
Ein Bild und seine Geschichte:Der Mann auf dem Foto ist der jüdische Münchner Rechtsanwalt Dr. Michael Siegel,der vertrauend auf das funktionierende rechtsstaatliche System der Weimarer Republik im Namen seines Mandanten des Kaufhausinhaber Uhlfelder am 10.März 1933 Anzeige bei der Polizei erstatten
For those who couldn’t make it, worry not. Happening today too!
Great presentation and discussion last night by @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on the occasion of the German edition of their book Muskism.
Gemälde von max Liebermann zeigt Martha Liebermann, die Gattin des Künstlers, 1898. Die hell gekleidete brünette Frau sitzt mit Buch auf dem Schoß im Profil auf einem Stuhl. Hinter ihr ein Geländer, Strand und Meer. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.
Am 10. März 1943 starb Martha Liebermann im Jüdischen Krankenhaus Berlin.
Ein Kriminalbeamter, der sie zum Abtransport ins KZ Theresienstadt abholen wollte, hatte sie fünf Tage zuvor im Koma in ihrer letzten noch verbliebenen Wohnung in der Graf-Spee-Straße 23 (heute Hiroshimastraße) aufgefunden. 🧵
Maybe it's time someone took away his playstation
If for whatever weird reason he ever ends up being held accountable (he won’t, I know), his legal defense might be quite hard.
The conditioning of people’s thought process to a relentless attention-seeking timeframe has made (too) many incapable of understanding why the actual world does not move with the same speed as the clickbait headlines imply. A constant state of self-reinforcing anxiety is the only consequence.
#OtD 9 Mar 1879 anarchist Carlo Tresca was born in Sulmona Italy, after emigrating to the US he became a prominent organiser of @IWW union. Involved in strikes across the US, he opposed fascism, Stalinism and the mafia, which eventually assassinated him libcom.org/history/carl...
From Tehran: "It’s catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shining… The flames are so bright the highways look like it’s day time. So bright but doesn’t feel right... Help please!”
Apropos Landtagswahl: In OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de gibt es eine Reportsge über konservative Unternehmer in Baden-Württemberg und eine Analyse von @lhaffert.bsky.social über Selbstständige im Grenzgebiet zwischen AfD und FDP: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/oben-re...
«ΝΕΡΟ» in Greek means water.
Keep reading about how this shipping legend “braves” the high-risk Hormuz strait - even though *he* is not on these ships. As some annoying radicals noted some time ago, in capitalism all risks are acceptable when things are so arranged that those who actually take them have no choice in the matter.
No debate there
Data centers are competing with TikTok influencers for our sympathy, it’s a tough choice
Opening tomorrow in Ghent: Unforgettable, a major exhibition at the MSK on women artists of the 17th-century Low Countries. More than 150 works reveal how painters, sculptors and lace-makers helped shape the Golden Age - even if art history later forgot them.
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.
x.com/SStapczynski...
A deranged, frat boy machismo sprinkled with delusional narcissism, toddler-level made up historical claims, libidinal celebration of cruelty and mind-numbing self-contradictions, ladies and gentlemen, the leader of the 'free world'.
Policing is very hard to justify if you think about it critically even a little.
"So how does Washington move partners it cannot honestly reassure? By manufacturing public pressure. A leak that frames Kurdish engagement as already underway creates expectations among regional audiences, among Iranian intelligence, and critically, within Kurdish political communities themselves."
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make for a great holiday right now; and that Keir Starmer’s engagements diary for 2027 will be remarkably clear. Still, there is one headline I’ll bet you haven’t seen, even though it directly affects your life. It’s about your life, and mine, and those of our families and friends and neighbours. I didn’t spot it either, until a few days ago when the Guardian ran a reader’s letter. It came from Alan Walker, a retired professor at the University of Sheffield. Why, he asked, hadn’t this newspaper made more of the latest “shocking” figures on healthy life expectancy? I looked up the report from the Office for National Statistics, and he’s absolutely right: the findings are indeed “momentous”, and they should be on the front pages, because they expose a serious truth about the state we’re in
The intro is also damning about our media ecosystem and its complicity in the death of democracy (or anything vaguely resembling it)
“Heard they are moving Pisces to June,
Shall we put together a platoon?”
Thursday night mood.
youtu.be/yJGKP8Ps38E
