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Professor in the Sociology of Markets, University of Edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social | sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, architecture, cities | EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
illustration: two robed men stand, surrounded by legs sticking up from the ground. smoke billows everywhere it's Gustave Doré's illustration for Canto XIX of Dante's Divine Comedy
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Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...
Thinking dandelion has the right attitude to the world 🫣
Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳
This, via @lanalanalana.bsky.social is basically my current research project (if you add a bit of institutional investment) #BIGSHEDS. The kind of money, financial instruments and endpoint consumption that funds these things = world
It's not that the proposed #Netflix takeover of #WarnerBrothers was a good thing, but the Ellison-owned #Paramount takeover creates a massive #Trump-allied virtual state media empire. Fascism in action.
Lab puppy on doorstep
Oh the wee paw prints
Hi puffin, I slept fine not sure about the humans
Black lab pup playing with a toy
But hello dandelion
4 8 week old Black lab pups from the same litter getting ready for new homes
I defy you to pick one of these guys
And the kicker imho ‘banks are now looking to sell these loans to private credit firms and insurance companies.’
One factor currently putting private credit’s value at risk is the future of software With the ascent of AI .. about 20 percent of loans in private credit funds are to tech companies. Oracle has borrowed at least $56 billion from banks for its expansion of data centers to be leased by OpenAI. 💯
The $16.6 trillion in net assets held by private funds in 2025 were ultimately managed by just four thousand registered advisors.
New from Lenore Palladino, on the unregulated finance at the heart of the American economy. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
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Agree with all this except honestly I'm less optimistic that anything will ever be done to prevent more harm. People in power simply don't care. It's only girls, whatever.
Big tech is deeply hostile to women and, ofc, #banthepervertglasses
- as.ft.com/r/da4838c6-4...
In Edinburgh new town you’d no get past the pink door
Why other than extensive bombing there is such fabulously modernist public toilets 🤷
The phone box is white because of Kingston Communications a Hull specific historical exception from telecoms nationalisation which made local calls free
Once a year I am obligated to QPR away game but I get to see extraordinary peripheral cities like Hull with their very particular infrastructure
‘Silicon Valley pronatalism is generally understood as eugenic ..Musk and his ilk are steeped in the pseudoscience of transhumanism – less concerned with the elimination of error than the exaltation of exceptional deviance.’ Melinda Cooper shockingly on the money www.equator.org/articles/eps...
If you publish with us and you want us to feature your article or special issue there we’re taking pitches again…
Our slightly exhausted blog has woken up and is now updating www.journalofculturaleconomy.org
Also featuring Justin Leifso @leifso.bsky.social on how the carbon-tax backlash in Alberta uncovers the emotional undercurrents of neoliberalism, resentment, and anti-elitism.
You can listen on all the usual podcast channels and watch on YouTube youtu.be/56hI-_Drx3k?... @stistien.bsky.social @leifso.bsky.social
🔥new episode out this very morning! ‘When the planet hits the balance sheet’ feat. Kristin Asdal & @stistien.bsky.social Stine Engen - hosted as ever by @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4WqW...
This is very good. It's easier to blame universities for a poor economy than it is to blame, well, everything else. But you certainly won't *fix* the economy by just forcing people into trades apprenticeships.
Well there's a graph for you.
I encourage everyone to read Virginia Giuffre's memoir, Nobody’s Girl, published posthumously in October 2025, and to share it with others.
The best way to honour her legacy is to believe & support sexual abuse survivors, and amplify their voices above the power & wealth that seeks to silence them.