thanks @adamtooze.bsky.social for the shout out in
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to this, which got lost in the holiday 2024 season
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@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem
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@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Look here for the bigger body of work:
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@keanbirch.bsky.social
A tax on the computational time consumed by AI systems would make labor displacement marginally costlier than augmentation without suppressing innovation, Sami Mahroum explains. bit.ly/44NTKCK
nice read from @cornelban.bsky.social 'price stability and planetary stability can no longer be separated. Every rate hike now carries climate consequences. Liquidity provision has become a form of environmental policy—whether central bankers admit it or not' geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...
Today, @raulcarrillo.bsky.social explains why existing legal frameworks are inadequate to address the emerging dystopian world of monetary fiefdoms—a world in which private infrastructure governs without the name of government.
In this moment of profound uncertainty over the global monetary order, Europe needs to move swiftly on becoming a truly global currency issuer, writes @shahinvallee.bsky.social at @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Us & China are rolling out plans…
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
Today, @rohangrey.bsky.social kicks off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, by considering the Left's missed opportunities and explaining how it can reclaim control over the future of money.
New article! "Tokenization of everything? Exploring the limits of blockchain technologies in the governance of financial markets and assets" led by Anetta Proskurovska
If you want to learn about #tokenization in #finance & #financialmarkets then check it out
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German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
Book cover of "The AI Matrix" by Daniel Mügge, Regine Paul and Vali Stan, showing a world map, hands grabbing Dollar bills, a robot arm and interconnected cables
Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Am 27.11. startet unser neues Kolloquium 'Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken' am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social mit einem Vortrag von Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Diskussion zur Agency von generativer KI! Infos zum gesamten Programm finden sich hier: buff.ly/5VIZO0C
"Both Perestroika and Thatcherism were easier said than done. While both sides eventually concluded that there was no alternative to breaking promises, only the West could actually do it."
From the archive, @maxkrahe.bsky.social on "The Triumph of Broken Promises"
New piece about MAGA's Fed strategy:
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@lkseiling.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social plea in @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a new data access regime emerging from a "generation of decentralized platforms that treat data transparency not as a regulatory burden but as a civic and scientific good"
www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...
Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware
The latest example is a political consultant who works for left-wing politicians in Italy, who came out as the most recently confirmed victim of Paragon spyware in the country.
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#CyberSecurity #Privacy
How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
Was taugt der Begriff "demokratischer Faschismus"?
Eine Rezension:
Pleased to be presenting here in Berlin—program here: transatlantic-reason.info
Meme of Bernie Sanders
The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.
The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky
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Wie kann KI offen & verantwortungsvoll gestaltet werden? Zwei neue Publikationen fassen Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Yes, we are open!?“ zusammen. Die Veröffentlichungen bieten Empfehlungen für Politik & Praxis – für eine faire, zukunftsfähige KI. 🌍🤖 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
"Civil society, as Gramsci understood, and as today’s liberals do not, is a terrain of struggle. It is not, and cannot be, an agent."
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Symbolgrafik mit Computerbildschirm und den Sprechblasen "Yes" und "No".
"5 Jahre nach dem DeFi Summer: Eine kritische Reflexion zu den Demokratieversprechen der Decentralized-Finance-Industrie"
Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Tara Merk setzt sich im Beitrag für unseren Blog vor allem mit DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) auseinander.
👉 zevedi.de/efinblog-fun...
Check out our latest bulletin, which marks the official launch of our redesigned website (ecsa.io)
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
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He was not as old as that image from the Wikipedia, but he was a young man either, and matters seemed to weigh on him. Not a frivilous person
This piece by him in 1982 from @bostonreview.bsky.social remains relevant
I’ve spent the last several weeks learning everything I can about what President Trump and his allies want from the new Fed chair. I put all that together in a cover story for Barron’s. It's not just rate cuts.
Tldr; Expect major disruption at the Fed. Staff cuts, model changes, polarization & more
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
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