The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’
More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America
The Intelligence Curse
This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
POLITICS AFTER THE END OF THE END OF HISTORYWhat happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how public life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency — while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out.Hyperpolitics revisits the illusions of the “end of history” and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post–Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private passions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power.Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq’s disenchanted fictions, Hyperpolitics makes sense of a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so inconsequential, this book offers a vital map through the new contradictions of our hyperpolitical moment.
Collection
Updated 15d
Let us gaze into the swirling sea of Horrors together
Epistemic Crisis
weird little AI guys
atmosphere
Sociopolitical analysis
General collection for now (may reorganize into more specific collections)
Climate change (unsorted)
activism
The Garden
Everything is connected. The master collection of all links collected across all collections, and a pretty decent snapshot of my brain
Technocracy
Landslide/Holdfast
Citations and background for my talk at Atmosphere Conf 2026
Today · Standard Reader
atproto-comments
Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
What is the Atmosphere? · Leaflet Lab Notes
Find Protests Near You - Updated Daily | find a protest
Find Protests Near You - Updated Daily | find a protest
Organizing (by Ken-ichi Ueda) — Semble
25th Anniversary
Solidarity Social
Rudy's Theory of Revolution
A new writing series: Re-envisioning AI safety through global majority perspectives | Brookings
The AI safety movement needs normies
Who gets a seat at the table to decide if frontier AI is safe?
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
Learnings from a week in the wet lab — LessWrong
First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority.
The Verification Ladder: A Framework for Evaluating Video When You Can’t Tell What’s Real
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
The Leftist Manosphere and Identity Politics
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of…
Members of right-leaning parties prefer leaders with ‘dark triad’ personality traits
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control
Canada And The EU Come Together
An (accidental?) love letter to the lunkheads
Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
Sources on social media: Information context collapse and volume of content as predictors of source blindness - George Pearson, 2021
Pacific kelp forests are far older than we thought - Berkeley News
Illusion of knowledge through Facebook news? Effects of snack news in a news feed on perceived knowledge, attitude strength, and willingness for discussions
No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz | Open Library
A perspective on friction interventions to curb the spread of misinformation
The social media context interferes with truth discernment
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
Toward a Critical Technical Practice
Analog Resistance: Why Mechanical Simplicity Matters in an Increasingly Digital Cycling World
gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu
platypus1917.org
re:publica 25: Robin Berjon - How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic