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Beach reading for political junkies 👍

Terms of Engagement Summer Reading List – Ash Centerash.harvard.edu

“There’s the people who want OpenAI and Anthropic to own everything, and then there’s everybody else, including customers.”

Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.www.nytimes.com

OpenAI to merge with Hugging Face. New concern to be called Skynet.

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Looks like we might need a social media ban for parents.

Enjoyed talking with Joy LaClaire on Forthright Radio about the role of political elites vs fossil fuel companies in shaping American public opinion, among other things.

Pepper Culpepper BILLIONAIRE BACKLASH: THE AGE OF CORPORATE SCANDAL AND HOW IT COULD SAVE DEMOCRACYPepper Culpepper is Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Blavatnik School of Government, and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College at t…forthright.media

As both a democracy defender and a practical pessimist, it is clear that I am no fun at parties. @soumayakeynes.ft.com trenchant analysis of the identity politics of billionaire taxes.

Comedy gold on the SpaceX business model 🤣🤣🤣. Coming soon to a pension plan someone you love depends on.

This may be the wake-up call we’ve been waiting for.

It’s not exactly Profiles in Courage is it? Good on @guychazan.bsky.social and @financialtimes.com for putting things on perspective.

Interesting discussion about responsibility and accountability of elites at the Rencontres Économiques, in which I argued that we on the panel were also part of the elite and thus the problem. I may have mentioned good populism as well. #reaix

At the Rencontres Économiques in Aix, where we finished today with Kyle Eastwood (double bass) and his band playing an homage to the music in his dad’s films. Imagine telling Dirty Harry you think it’s not bedtime.‘You’ve gotta ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?’ #reaix

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So President Trump is a free trader after all.

The magic of markets

The job of the media is to report news so that people can know what’s going on. FT and others leading with the $500 mn figure on crypto tokens while Reuters leading with $1.4 bn total income last year. Both staggering, but the varying of numbers like this makes it hard for the public to focus on.

How should regulation balance considerations of efficiency and what citizens in a democracy want? What's the biggest problem in the US today -- the concentration of economic power or over-regulation? Justin Kempf and I debate these questions on the latest episode of Democracy Paradox. 👇

Pepper Culpepper Says Good Populism Can Save Democracy - Democracy ParadoxPepper Culpepper says good populism targets billionaires, not immigrants, and could help save democracy from corporate scandal.democracyparadox.com

Words fail me here. Turns out the deep state took down Nixon, not Republicans in Congress asking ‘What did the president know and when did he know it?’

Happy Father’s Day to all! Today my daughter decided I needed better social media presence for Billionaire Backlash. Behold the result.

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Daughter got my prickly flowers for Father’s Day. I feel seen. ❤️

Befuddled by why Graham Platner's voters shrugged off allegations and massively supported him in Maine's primary? Or puzzled by why elites on this site spend all their time fulminating about his texts rather than his policies? Either way, this oped in today's Guardian will hopefully shed light.

Graham Platner’s victory reveals a winning midterms playbook | Pepper CulpepperVoters want someone they trust to change the economic dealwww.theguardian.com