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I wrote about the escalating fears of war we've seen in media and in statements from officials and governments this past week lilyslynch.com/p/europes-sin…
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Another way to make this point is to plot total global foreign exchange reserves (formal reserves that is) against total marketable Treasury supply
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Just another view on the same idea: global reserve accumulation has slowed to a trickle in recent years, relegating the dollar's "reserve currency" status to secondary importance in determining overall capital flows:
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“Taken together, their message was clear: the Chinese economy was in trouble and an A.I.-centered allocation of resources could prove costly to ordinary people’s livelihoods and the country’s economic future.” @LiYuan6 nytimes.com/2026/09/20/busin…
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Egal, wie das heute in MV ausgeht: Das schönste Parlamentsgebäude Deutschlands steht weiter in Schwerin.
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Is Matt implying he had never heard of Deutscher’s biography before?
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The closest Dominos to the Pentagon is reporting very high traffic.
Freddies Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon, is reporting low traffic.
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In fairness, if I wrote insinuatingly reactionary columns for a newspaper which regularly publishes stuff that would make Julius Streicher blush, I too would blame the global recrudescence of fascism on people not being able to read Dickens any more
What's the connection between fascism and illiteracy?
A third of British adults who used to read for pleasure don't anymore.
And according to the OECD, literacy itself, not just the habit of it, is declining or stagnating across most of the developed world.
In a new book, The New Dark Ages, @j_amesmarriott argues that we're living through a great unwinding: a retreat from the written word and the kind of rational, analytical mind that print culture built over five centuries, back towards something closer to the pre-literate world: one dominated not by books, but by images, screens, and short-form video.
In this episode of The New Society, @tanjil_rashid_ is joined by @j_amesmarriott to ask: are we really heading back into the dark?
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My very long essay on the past, present, and future of social democracy. jacobin.com/2026/09/social-d…
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1300 pages of Beckett diary in early Nazi period
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Talking to @FukuyamaFrancis about why so many of the world’s most powerful and rich people join Twitter and proceed to lose their minds.
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The dollar is not just a currency but an infrastructure for US empire — and only American elites are benefiting from it.
@NewLeftEViews explains. jacobin.com/2026/09/an-empir…
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There may be other copies out there of Lenin’s State and Revolution autographed by Sun Ra, but I haven’t yet encountered them. @MatthewSitman
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Dom @NewLeftEViews and I on the dollar and empire in the beautiful new print issue of @jacobin.
A declining empire can grow more violent, not less.
From Iran to Cuba and Venezuela, Trump has made US power more brazen — but the system runs deeper than one president.
Our fall issue examines “precision warfare,” sanctions, NATO, and dollar power: jacobin.com/issue/the-new-em…
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Do speculative booms always lead to ideological and conspiratorial frenzy and mass psychogenic illness, and is it always the case that most people including otherwise competent commentators competent lose any sense of judgement?
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AI could turn into an extinction-level problem ….. but it could also be a merely horrible problem that kills the internet, makes people miserable/illiterate and ruins culture on a global scale
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