The Productive State

Bend the world to fit demand

The physics of the supply side

Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods

An era of global protocols requires a visionary redefinition of public goods, in service of others.

Reading Supply

Reading Supply is a reading and writing tool for artists, thinkers, creators, and humans.

From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon

Economists tend to characterize the scope of regulation as a simple matter of expanding or contracting state power. But a political economy perspective emphasizes that social relations abhor a power…

Command and control in natural resource management: Revisiting Holling and Meffe

A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)

Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty

Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

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1% for the People

Capitalism is the undisputed powerplant of global prosperity. Since Adam Smith first described the “invisible hand” that allows economies to be efficiently self-organizing and self-renewing, every attempt to supplant it with a competing system has failed spectacularly.

interfluidity » The great game of global public goods provision

War is bad. Excuses should not be made for it. All sides should work to end this and every war as quickly as possible and shift to modes of bargaining and competition that are not profoundly destructive.

Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk | TechCrunch

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

Valuing What Counts: Framework to Progress Beyond Gross Domestic Product: Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 4

Welcome Back to the Office. You Won’t Get Anything Done | The Walrus

Return to office mandates aren’t about output. They’re about asserting control

Dripline: How we co-operate | Hypha

Notes on incorporation, co-operation, and solidarity from a one year old co-op.

Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits

There is a touch of destiny with this one. We have real…

Why the US government labelled Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’: A timeline - The Economic Times

The Department of War has demanded that Anthropic’s AI models be made available to it for "any lawful use." Anthropic has, however, refused to cross its strict ethical red lines — no fully autonomous weapons and no mass domestic surveillance.