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Strongly recommend @DanielaGabor’s step by step account of what’s really happening with bond markets - and how to really deal with them without wishful thinking. (The “Bailey premium” we pay govt borrowing costs also deserves wider circulation.) Link below.

I argued all populisms aim at a cross-class politics of a productivist alliance where the non-productive are violators of the moral economy. patreon.com/posts/marx-hou…

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Alexander Louis Sallons @sallonsax

2 months ago

This is something our spokespeople are missing when it comes to the £15 minimum wage policy, too much of the cost of a latte is going to a landlord, and not to the barista making it. Greens want to control rents, and increase wages. Make that money going to the people producing.

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Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's historically shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of the warehouse's carceral geography from 1846 to present. placesjournal.org/article/the-wa…

This winter, @hyderhabib and I roamed the streets of Jamia Nagar in Delhi documenting how the people of ghettoised neighbourhoods navigate scarcity of sunlight. A part of our project was carried by @TheIndiaForum as a photo essay. Link to the essay: theindiaforum.in/society/seekin…

Research is so fun sometimes

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aadam jacobs tapes spreading around is incredible. hopefully inspires kids to get a rig and get taping. never malachi ritscher, another wonderful chicago archivist of free jazz and out music. his collection is here ess.org/audio-archive/…

AI data centers now require over $5 trillion in investment, yet they’ve become such high-stakes military targets that firms are considering moving them across borders into "data embassies" restofworld.org/2026/gulf-war-…

Now up: Alex Colston (@enoughformethx) reviews Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics," (@VersoBooks) filling in gaps in the book's short argument & arguing for the importance of political formations and activities independent of official political society. proteanmag.com/2026/03/26/hyp…

BREAKING: The oil war just hit rice. Not through fuel. Through plastic bags. A shortage of polypropylene (PP) raffia — used to pack rice — is now disrupting Asia’s rice trade. What broke? – Hormuz disruption → PP cargoes stuck – India imports 50%+ of PP from Middle East – February shipments? Still stranded – No new vessels getting through This is not a price spike. This is a physical supply freeze. Timing couldn’t be worse – End of fiscal year – Low inventories (just-in-time buying) – Strong existing demand The system had no buffer. Prices are exploding: PP raffia: – Jan: $810/mt – Feb: $915/mt – Now: $1,380/mt Domestic spike: – +₹50,000/mt since Feb 28 This is not gradual inflation. This is a shockwave. And it’s hitting rice exports directly: 50kg rice bag cost: – Feb: $4–4.5/mt – Now: $6.5–7/mt Margins get crushed → exporters pass it on → buyers hesitate But here’s the twist: Rice prices aren’t rising much. India 5% broken WR: $333/mt Thailand: $360/mt Gap narrowed to ~$20 → buyers shifting to Thai rice Why? Because packaging cost is erasing India’s price advantage. This is bigger than India 🇹🇭 Thailand – “Pricing is dusty” (uncertain) – Costs unstable: bags, freight, containers – Offers now depend on bag availability 🇻🇳 Vietnam – Still sourcing from China – Bag costs up 25–30% What’s really happening: Oil → Petrochemicals → Plastic → Packaging → Food trade One disruption at Hormuz is cascading across the entire chain. Key insight: The constraint is no longer rice. It’s the bag that carries it. When packaging becomes scarce, food doesn’t stop existing — it stops moving. And when food stops moving, prices are the least of your problems.

Really good deep dive on the terrible state of hip-hop media archives and what that means for culture writing today. defector.com/lost-recipes

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits. So, who stands to win? Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

This was always the way it was going to go. All industry in the US is ultimately downstream of the business of war. This is the strategic culmination of all those stupid Ghibli photos, the creep of that awful writing style into every corner of our lives, all of it was for this

Sam Altman @sama

4 months ago

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of

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The vision of automated science peddled by AI hype artists is predicated on a staunch refusal or else inability to understand what the work of science consists in, how it is acquainted with nature, how it interplays with engineering and, ultimately, its value to society.

Looking Back with Silvia Federici: A Conversation Andreas Petrossiants e-flux.com/journal/160/67…

to me it seems bad that broad critiques of "conspiracy theories" and other modes of ostensibly feverish, vulgar, unrealistic, fantastic, insufficiently nuanced thinking etc are deployed alongside a fawning push for the mass adoption of goofy language association machines

NYPD shot Bangladeshi New Yorker Jabez Chakraborty 5x on Jan 26 mental health call—predictive policing flagged distress as threat in surveilled Queens. Our #100DaysOfZohran reporting maps Tisch's blueprint: DAS 30k cams in Black/Latino hoods, family-funded slush funds bypassing oversight. Read 👇 100daysofzohran.thepolisproject.com/nypd-jessica-t… Visualization: Andrew Pavani

“We did not call the police. Instead of medical responders, the NYPD arrived[…] After shooting our son, the NYPD demanded we give them our phones and passwords”

DRUM #CeasefireNow @DesisRisingUp

5 months ago

BREAKING: In response to the brutal NYPD shooting of their son and brother, 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty on Monday, January 26th, the Chakraborty family issued the following statement: We are shocked and outraged by the NYPD’s treatment of our son and brother, Jabez

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Eames furniture display at the Henry Ford Museum showing the mold used to make fiberglass chair shells

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maybe we sense in some way that inhabiting a society without historical consequence means that we, too, are of no consequence. and we want our lives to be consequential, to have meaning. but we have somewhat limited genres for imagining that meaning

A brief history of American NarcoTerrorism as told through Marco Rubio's family cocaine trafficking enterprise prospect.org/2025/12/23/nar…