• Why AI vendors are targeting public institutions

• Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?

• The rise of Youtube “street content”

• Kier Starmer: “We should treat the 2017 Manifesto as our foundational document”

• People’s pets are going to start dying due to the heat

• The disavowal of the Covid-19 pandemic

• The economic foundation of Manchester’s revival is the city centre

• Claude 5’s assessment of the short and medium term future of UK higher education

• The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

• “Jeremy Corbyn gets into Downing Street, pulls a lever currently jammed at neoliberalism, yoinks it in the direction of social democracy and all is good”

• Together we can make hope normal again

• The internal tensions facing Reform before the next election

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

• The class composition of American proto-fascism

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube

• We must move, must grow, from apocalypse to dialectic

• Stochastic purging

• 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

• What will the next stage of capitalism look like? Two possibilities from Cedric Durand responding to Brett Christophers

• 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

• You can’t ban the English Defence League because it doesn’t exist but you can force Telegram to shut down organising groups

• 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

• Some thoughts on the UK general election 2024

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right over the next ten years?

• The interaction between climate change and antimicrobial resistance

• Adam Tooze on the sweaty muscularity of state power

• CfP: Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

• How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?

• The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• Yanis Varoufakis: The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• Why aren’t libertarian conspiracy theorists interested in Project 2025?

• Are the economic shocks of 2021-2023 a temporary phenomenon?

• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

• The rise of sociophobia