Cowboy Capitalism in Central Asia
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack Trump’s 35b dollar Central Asia
push, Chevron’s ecocide, BRICS vs G7 and AI fake videos stealing their work.
The p...
Is AI a Catalyst for Growth--or For Collapse?
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*Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable. *
*The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is
conjuring up cheap energ...
Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites
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Google has filed a complaint in court that details the scam:
In a complaint filed Wednesday, the tech giant accused “a cybercriminal
group in China” of s...
Quantum Investment Bros: Have you no shame?
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Near the end of my last post, I made a little offhand remark: [G]iven the
current staggering rate of hardware progress, I now think it’s a live
possibility...
Cultural Forces
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I’m still early in thinking about culture, and only recently thought to ask
about the relative importance of different cultural forces, and how that
might ...
Safeguarded AI (Part 2)
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60 people, including a lot of category theorists, are meeting in Edinburgh
for the £59 million UK project called Safeguarded AI. I talked about it
before h...
Books That Travelled
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A few weeks ago Y and I visited the printing art fair in town. The local
second hand book shop had, as curiosa, put up a number of frames containing
things...
Maverick Dark Castle
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On Saturday, I ran the Maverick Dark Castle: an 11km night time trail run
around Corfe Castle. I’d not done a night run before, and had never run a
trail r...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Koli Calling 2025: Alliances of the Artificial
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[image: The rear view of the conference room, with 80 heads, partially
obscured by the edge of a large wooden stump sculpture.]The back of the
room, where ...
Some musings on reality motivated by the age of AI
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Is there anyone at home? Is the chess program on your phone conscious? Is
ChatGPT5 a conscious agent? Will ChatGPT9 be conscious? Most people would
answer ...
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
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Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years
ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite
nothing. T...
Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II
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by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks
can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also
acknowled...
New book: The Story of Capital
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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How
Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.
The Final Step of the Scientific Method
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An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive
logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by
their habit: ...
Good News Ukraine.
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Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war
https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry
Occupies” and drones are...
Supersonic electric flight
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This post is inspired by the recent press release about the Rolls Royce
Accel, an experimental electric aircraft being built to attempt the
electric speed ...
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