“At each stage, we drew a line in the silicon — this is what machines cannot do because they are mindless — & at each stage, the line was crossed by systems that understood nothing.”
—Ben Bariach
www.noemamag.com/why-ai-doesn...
“A tradition can die without a funeral. And when it does, the land may still look the same — but it will no longer know our names, & we will no longer know its.”
—Karma Sonam, a Ladakhi historian
www.noemamag.com/the-last-yak...
"The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West."
— @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/silicon-vall...
“If we confuse ourselves too readily with our machine creations, we not only overestimate them, we also underestimate ourselves.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of the @berggruen.org Essay Prize Competition
www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
A must read by @anilseth.bsky.social — the 2025 English-language winner of the Berggruen Essay Prize — on our flawed assumptions about consciousness & AI.
It was my pleasure! Great work!
A beautiful piece by @christianelliott.me.
“Set aside before industrial agriculture arrived in Iowa, pioneer cemeteries have become the prairie’s final resting place — one of the few where the land remembers what it once was.”
www.noemamag.com/where-the-pr...
100% so glad to work with you, Dang. It's been a real pleasure on my end, too!
It's especially cool to see such phenomenal writers like @digitaldang.bsky.social @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @alexandrelefebvre.bsky.social @joezadeh.bsky.social @henrywismayer.bsky.social @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social & @adamfrank4.bsky.social featured here!
Check out their work!
It's here! Check out our "Top 10 Reads Of 2025" in @NoemaMag, and read these amazing pieces or listen to our playlist. Enjoy!
www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
“The superintelligence narrative undermines democratic possibilities by presenting concentrated power as a tragic necessity. If extinction is at stake, then public deliberation becomes a luxury we cannot afford.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
www.noemamag.com/the-politics...
We can’t keep hitting up the richest to meet today’s affordability challenge. In an economy where the top 10% own 93% of all financial market equities, “it can only be met by spreading the wealth of ownership more broadly in the first place,” argues Nathan Gardels.
www.noemamag.com/address-affo...
“Trump’s trade policy bypasses multilateralism, instead compelling each country to negotiate bilaterally — on America’s terms. In doing so, Trump is not merely reacting to a broken global order. He is forcing others into an entirely new one.”
—Hui Huang
www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-t...
Our gravest AI risk isn't runaway superintelligence but our cultural readiness to surrender collective judgment to algorithmic systems, Andrew Sorota argues in his @noemamag.com piece this week
www.noemamag.com/rescuing-dem...
Very proud of @mariafarrell.bsky.social and @robin.berjon.com for their selection!
Congratulations! It looks beautiful!
“AI sovereignty, as it currently plays out outside of the U.S.-China vacuum, is not a banner‐waving claim to territorial control; rather, it manifests itself as the quiet right to decide what counts as knowledge & how that knowledge shows up in the world.”
—@digitaldang.bsky.social
As a journo who has spent time on fact-check desks, this story was an interesting one to edit.
“The last decade has made clear that we aren’t going to fact-check or inoculate our way toward a healthier civic culture.”
—@zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
www.noemamag.com/we-failed-th...
“The stark cognitive dissonance between how people feel about social media & how they use it is one sign that we have entered a new era in our relationship with these platforms.”
— @mikesmariani.bsky.social
So proud to be a part of the Noema Magazine team — and in this video, too!
Beneath the rise of AI lies a deeper transformation: Power now flows through networks, emerges in patterns, & governs not by edict, but by architecture, @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social argue
The rift between conservatives & MAGA may be more consequential than the street demonstrations in Los Angeles, writes Nathan Gardels in @NoemaMag this week.
The tech oligarchs choosing “to throw their lot in with the MAGA movement is not because they have all shifted allegiance from the political left to the political right,” Dan Zimmer writes.
Rather, they see Trump as someone who won’t stand in the way of their goals for technological advancement.
“America is now spending more on interest payments on debt than on the defense budget for the first time in its history.”
—Niall Ferguson
#politics #american #history
Wow, congratulations! @mariafarrell.bsky.social
A year ago today, @mariafarrell.bsky.social and I published "We Need To Rewild The Internet" with @noemamag.com, edited by @latams.bsky.social.
First things first, if you haven't read it yet, today's a great to find out why it's still a hit a year on: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
The divergence between China’s climate ambitions & America’s current outright denial of the crisis “could well lead to democratic capitalism’s hegemonic decline,” @doctorvive.bsky.social argues.
Excited to share this piece by Blaise Agüera y Arcas & James Manyika on how advances in AI are changing how we think of intelligence & giving us clues to unlocking AI's full potential.
Well deserved! Congrats to @mariafarrell.bsky.social and @robin.berjon.com both!
