Scheerbartian central planner//ostblock SF shlock theory//Chinamarxxing since the 80s Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
#technolibertarian #history #siliconvalley #ai #wired I know I have posted this before, but everyone should listen to this #interview. Long unavailable, Borsook's groundbreaking Cyberselfish romp through the incipient SV geek and techbro subculture by Zer0 Books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcme...
Why “Cyberselfish,” Written 25 Years Ago, Is Suddenly Relevant Again | Amanpour and CompanyYouTube video by Amanpour and Companywww.youtube.com"Banning any open model would hurt first cyber security defenders, startups, small companies, researchers and everyone who's not a frontier lab and need on-prem affordable controlable models to compete and protect themselves. Let's not do that!" edition.cnn.com/2026/07/31/u...
Hugging Face CEO speaks out after company hacked during OpenAI test | CNNCNN News Central’s Kate Bolduan speaks with Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clement Delangue in his first interview since the platform was hacked by an OpenAI model that escaped its test environment.edition.cnn.com#book #bigtech #techbross 'Cyberselfish' on Amanpour and Company 💥 Long unavailable, Borsook's groundbreaking behind-the-curtain look at Silicon Valley's codependent relationship with the dark heart of far-right ideology will be back in print this fall from Zer0 Books! youtu.be/fcmezu4Kba8?...
Why “Cyberselfish,” Written 25 Years Ago, Is Suddenly Relevant Again | Amanpour and CompanyYouTube video by Amanpour and Companyyoutu.beThe Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-...
The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback)The anti-distraction device is the modern mousetrap: build a better one, and the world will beat a path to your door.www.openculture.comI think it's high time the so called ' #AI race' should be reconsidered as an inverted replay of Reagan’s Star Wars—goading #BigTech into bankrupting everyone by trying to compete with #China on something that ultimately doesn’t work. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/h...
Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and dominating on open modelsHugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said Chinese AI models could catch up to the U.S. as soon as this year.www.cnbc.comWhat I like in Tamas is how easily he can switch from writing an essay on ruins, the fragmentary, Marx rewriting the Capital. High modernism and impersonal authority and then gauge the speed of capital and slowness of labour, it's garish bermuda pants & wide t-shirts as the uniform of late Fordism.
Stefan Tiron#longread #mustread #bestread #history An article from years back written by the indispensable G M Tamas. It's also probably one of the most comprehensive articles I've read about nationalism, modernisation, centralisation and Habsburg multiculturalism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/g-m...
#longread #mustread #bestread #history An article from years back written by the indispensable G M Tamas. It's also probably one of the most comprehensive articles I've read about nationalism, modernisation, centralisation and Habsburg multiculturalism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/g-m...
The Two Hundred Years WarThe origins of conflict in Yugoslavia.www.bostonreview.netThe SUV is the emblem of petro masculinities, disdain for bike riders. SUV as the enclosure bunker car promising insulation from climate catastrophy and sub human pedestrians. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Christopher Harry on buying an SUV – cartoonThe new Mega Behemoth XL car – available at 0% interest in the environmentwww.theguardian.comAuthor of the excellent When The Clock Broke John Ganz is working on a new book Crackpot Empire detailing how much fringe cult Lyndon Larouche's organization reflects the US of past/today. Had a crazy experience with BüSo founded by his widow activist Helga Zepp-LaRouche some activists on Müllerstr.
"If #liberals didn’t act, they wouldn’t be liberal; and if they didn’t feel guilty about the consequences of their actions, they also wouldn’t be liberal. This is the logic that results in the apologetic and guilt-ridden affect central to imperialist realism."~Daniel Bessner
Stefan Tiron#book #politics #culture "Daniel Bessner is one of the sharpest analysts of U.S. foreign policy writing today." ~Bhaskar Sunkara Available for order here t.co/LGN0gW8x8V
#migrants #noborders #politics #Europe The EU's border regime and 'the genocide at sea" in a new Cosmopod #podcast. cosmonautmag.com/2025/11/the-...
The Border is a Mirror: Europe and the Politics of Migration with Iker SuarezWe join Iker Suarez for a discussion on the politics of migration and borders in Europecosmonautmag.com#recommend #nature #marxism #engels #modernity #materialsm #romanian Excellent #review of recently translated Sebastiano Timpanaro's classic On Materialism. spectrul.ro/2026/07/24/l...
Limitele care arată pe unde să mergiCâmpul editorial de stânga din România e din ce în ce mai viu și prestigios, iar de aceea parcă vorbește din ce în ce mai puțin despre sine. Motivele-s de înțeles. Cronicile de întâmpinare nu prea …spectrul.ro#book #politics #culture "Daniel Bessner is one of the sharpest analysts of U.S. foreign policy writing today." ~Bhaskar Sunkara Available for order here t.co/LGN0gW8x8V
THIS "In aceasta perspectivă, analiza noastră propune o înțelegere contextualizata a votului suveranist ca reacție la transformările structurale ale economiilor și societăților contemporane, depășind astfel explicații pur circumstantiale și imediate ale acestui comportament electoral."
Stefan Tiron#newbbook #politics #politicaleconomy #romania #extremism A long awaited study of the new sovereignism pole just got published at Humanitas by Alina Pop, Filip Alexandrescu and Ionuț Marian-Anghel about the new political economy fostering fascism in Romania and elsewhere. Hope to review it.
