• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• The coming economic crash and the far right

• The enshittification of (political) economy: ‘AI’ as the last redoubt of neoliberal centrism

• Yanis Varoufakis on a socialist interpretation of human flourishing

• Reparative socialism: Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Community Safety

• Fox News host calls for execution of homeless people

• What are Reform UK’s policies for higher education?

• Zack Polanksi: “what’s unrealistic is continuing with the status quo”

• Zack Polanski’s doing a podcast and it’s excellent!

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• Taking the AGI pill

• What if universities no longer existed?

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

• So, what is utopia good for? For walking

• The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

• Mainstream betting sides offering 1/3 odds on Trump either disregarding or changing constitutional term limits

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope

• “If H5 is ever going to be a pandemic, it’s going to be now”

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• Trump’s granddaughter has 500k YouTube followers and is producing videos from SpaceX launches 😬

• Elon Musk: First Buddy of the United States

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• The newly united Democratic Party is running on vibes but they are excellent vibes

• Pandemic trauma as a driver of far-right radicalisation

• Minimalism as a philosophy of post-neoliberalism

• We don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable

• Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

• The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• The political economy of hopelessness

• The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards