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Definitely frustrating to watch the #UN be so inept - hosting indicted war criminals, failing to stem criminal wars of aggression. In this essay, I examine how this fits in an attempt to create a new global order & how the #BoP in #Gaza is the seed for it.
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✍️ @4noura calls out Board of Peace for "its absolute illegality in int'l & US law; its imposition of what a legal expert calls an 'illegal trusteeship' over Gaza; its likely function as another failed enterprise for the Trump dynasty to launder...money."
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This is essential reading. Truly. Make the effort.
My essay on how the BoP as a model for new global governance.
It is a form of exit modeled on market fundamentalist exit of capital from popular democracy and a growing rise of privatized sovereignty.
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#Gaza #Nakba #BoP #Exit
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Definitely frustrating to watch the #UN be so inept - hosting indicted war criminals, failing to stem criminal wars of aggression. In this essay, I examine how this fits in an attempt to create a new global order & how the #BoP in #Gaza is the seed for it.
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At some point, more people will understand that G.M. Tamás may be the most brilliant political philosopher of the post-war era. bostonreview.net/articles/g-…
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My essay on how the BoP as a model for new global governance.
It is a form of exit modeled on market fundamentalist exit of capital from popular democracy and a growing rise of privatized sovereignty.
bostonreview.net/articles/ex…
#Gaza #Nakba #BoP #Exit
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“It started to be ‘about’ more than I originally intended it to be until, some years in, it reached the point when it was ‘about’ everything.”
Miéville in conversation with Mark Bould in our summer issue:
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China Miéville just published a 1200 page book he’s been working on for more than 20 years and nobody seems to have heard about it (??)
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“The Angel of History looks on, puzzled, as the press releases pile up. An industry that sees thinking machines as debugged human beings makes increasingly bold claims for their models’ performance on a series of increasingly ambitious benchmarks.”
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This is one of the real dangers of AI, that by automating knowledge production it will destroy the social basis of knowledge transmission.
Worth revisiting the mathematician Michael Harris’ thoughtful essay in Boston Review (from June, before the latest wave of announced proofs): “Like any other species of understanding, the mathematical variety can only be established on the basis of a shared culture….”
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Read this. CCR was one of the only legal organizations with the courage and skills to push back against the illegal, immoral, and racist actions of the United States following 9-11. They continue to be the best legal org on these issues and Baher has been through it all.
Legal Director Baher Azmy in the Boston Review: following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military response has never come to an end."
U.S. impunity "paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court."
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Read the latest article published in the Boston Review, “Sadistic, Blatant, and Wanton.”
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Link To Full Article: tinyurl.com/4kvd9mna
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“Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” bostonreview.net/articles/kn…
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Worth revisiting the mathematician Michael Harris’ thoughtful essay in Boston Review (from June, before the latest wave of announced proofs): “Like any other species of understanding, the mathematical variety can only be established on the basis of a shared culture….”
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“The primary drivers of the decline of classical construction have been the economy of modern building methods and the adoption of standardized building materials, as well as a steep increase in labor costs in the last century.” @PalettaAnthony
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You are not crazy if you think that post 1940s buildings are uglier than older ones. In fact, a vast majority of people agree, according to the best survey data we have!
Professional architects like the types of buildings that most people find ugly. This explains why all the stuff that wins architectural prizes looks so horrendous. And why modern buildings in general are less aesthetically pleasing.
It's like a cabal that's depriving us of what we naturally enjoy!
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Legal Director Baher Azmy in the Boston Review: following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military response has never come to an end."
U.S. impunity "paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court."
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“The relation to the finished product is the same in both cases: ‘the degradation of men into commodities,’ to quote Hannah Arendt; or as Jeff Bezos put it, ‘this is basically people-as-a-service.’”
Mathematician Michael Harris:
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“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” —Michael Harris
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Still more absolute 🔥 from Terence Tao:
“We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential. The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community, which would reverse centuries of traditions of open science and do serious long-term damage to the future of the field”
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“The collective market capitalization of these ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.”
Mathematician Michael Harris:
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Why doesn’t OpenAI use an equal amount of the money they spend to prove interesting conjectures in funding PhDs in the mathematical sciences?
That way we will have a next generation of researchers that can understand these results and formulate the next wave of conjectures.
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