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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 4h
"The most interesting and valuable thing about AI isn't the things it can do, it's the systematic discovery and mapping of the statistically regular parts of reality, whose inverse provides a map of the irregular, surprising, poorly understood (thus exciting and promising) phenomena in our universe"
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ah yes, electricity and rent - famously preferences
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"I would 100 percent taste the forbidden fish sauce. I would do it for science." Amen!
defector.com
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"So, AOC, while I completely understand why you might not want to run for president, I think you gotta. Sometimes history calls your name and you have to answer the call. If you don’t, you will regret it forever, and so will we."
hamiltonnolan.com
AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Zohran Mamdani is launching a public price war on private providers: Guaranteeing that public providers undercut private stores means leveraging the laws of the market in the interest of affordability for all.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"...the sheer scale of this movement is breathtaking. Hundreds of thousands of trans people have had to flee persecution within the borders of the United States— If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing."
liberalcurrents.com
The American Transgender Refugee Crisis
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"this grotesque convergence reveals that the issue was never a lack of facts or a failure of empathy... Confronted with a truth that shatters their own moral and ideological self-conception, Western liberals retreat into moral paralysis: they validate the trauma and permit the genocide to continue."
equator.org
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"It’s a rejection of reality in favor of a comforting and simplistic lie, and a demand to use the powers of the state to enforce that illusion on the rest of us... Once again, the real experience of human beings is cast aside in favor of a simplistic vision."
liberalcurrents.com
There Is No Such Thing as Society
Today it is not revolutionary communists but so-called conservatives who wish to trample on human individuality in service of dreams of a remade society.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Inflation"
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Being a capitalist is a skill, and like any skill, the more you do it the better you get... steering the labour power of thousands of people to gouge a 100 km trench through a mountain range to lay an oil pipeline, much like a carpenter might talk about chiselling a groove in a log."
asomo.co
The Craft of Capitalism
How gentrification sands away the rough beauty of Berlin
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Palestine will not be at the Cup. The national team has never qualified... producing a suitable squad has been close to impossible in the face of occupation, blockade, and now genocide...As long as there is football, there is some hope that somehow, someday, ordinary life might be possible again."
equator.org
As Long as There Is Football • EQUATOR
Palestine’s pitches are in ruins, but the game lives on
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"No matter how indie your coffee, books and social media, your consumption choices will not have a material impact on Starbucks, Amazon or Twitter. Going vegan won't make the meat industry treat animals better. Taking the bus won't induce improvements to your town's public transit network."
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Shopping isn’t politics (21 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
They think you’re stupid.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"A market built on rent is not a free market. It is a toll booth economy—one in which the rents flow upward, the costs flow downward, and the gap between them is called prosperity. It is long past time to set the market free."
liberalcurrents.com
Rent: A New Framework
To fix the American economy, we must attack rent—of all kinds.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"And so the Roberts Court decision to effectively neuter S2 of the VRA, arguing that Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district is racially discriminatory—a ruling rooted in a view-from-nowhere, colorblind vision of race—lands as both profoundly unjust and historically illiterate."
liberalcurrents.com
The Supreme Court Delivers Another Victory for the Jim Crow Southernization of America
We must not forget how poorly buried the racial tyranny of the South's past is in America's present.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is it! The promised singularity is come. The apotheosis of LinkedIn. Everything has been building to this moment, when the most boring people in the world can finally automate their posts that the other boring people task their AI with reading. The ur-slop circle is complete!
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"This new flood of venture-capitalist-as-influencer platforms has promoted and naturalized a distinctive military-industrial idiom that closely apes certain twentieth-century artistic tropes...adopting the countercultural posture of the avant-garde to shape the reception of military innovation."
artforum.com
Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech
Artist Simon Denny offers a close reading of the dark art of defense tech in an essay for Artforum's May issue.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Some argue that immigrants undermine cultural cohesion. This is not even worth addressing; cultures have changed for the entirety of human history...every new immigrant group has been vilified as a threat to American culture and the American way of life, and in every case, the vilifiers were wrong"
liberalcurrents.com
Reopen the Golden Door
Repeal the Immigration and Nationality Act—immigration restrictionism is the Slave Power of the 21st century.
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Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Bitcoin is one of the greatest acts of storytelling ever. An entire movement built around the number 50 www.asomo.co/p/cult-of-th...
asomo.co
Cult of the Black Hole
The Five Pillars of Bitcoin Mysticism
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"...networks already pushing for climate justice, labor rights, and democratic accountability could provide the social foundation for a new kind of American internationalism: one less invested in preserving dominance than in building partnerships capable of addressing the crises of the 21st century"
dissentmagazine.org
Building a Post-Trump Foreign Policy - Dissent Magazine
Progressives need to ground international commitments to democratic accountability at home and engage with social movements abroad. Few political figures have articulated this as clearly as Alexandria...
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"The problem is that it is difficult to be Metternich in a democracy...people do not vote as geopolitical analysts. Foreign policy virtuosity does not put food on the table. He became, in the end, the thing he most despised: a globalist. And in Orbán’s Hungary, as he discovered, globalists lose."
equator.org
The Mittel Man • EQUATOR
What was Viktor Orbán’s vision for Europe?
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"In bleak times when the world’s crop of populists and neo-fascists offer only visions of blood and carnage, war and testosterone-soaked ethnonationalisms... this vision of vast, complex, infrastructural achievements that belong to the public constitute the highest mission of liberal democracy"
liberalcurrents.com
To the Moon
The Artemis moon mission provides a vision of a joyous, hopeful liberal future—one built on international cooperation, not war and hatred.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
" Scruton realized that allegiance to the hierarchies that bind society together operate far better when they are treated as eternal, organic, and natural law...an orderly society depended on cheerfully “unthinking” people who had internalized the all-important virtue of obedience to their betters."
liberalcurrents.com
The Right Wants You Stupid
The eternal question to preserve the “pleasing illusions” that hold society and its authorities together.
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GDP Dynamics @gdpdynamics.com · 09/04/2026
''For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.'' -John Maynard Keynes
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
yes i was joking when i called myself a "big strong guy" but everyone laughed too hard
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I just don't understand why anyone would use the misinformation machine. It's such a waste of time. "Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history...tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour"
futurism.com
Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Israel has become the model of impunity to follow, the prodigal son that has been raised up past the image of its father. Its spectacular violence has subdued its regional rivals for now; but military dominance eventually provokes resistance from within and from without."
equator.org
The Invaders • EQUATOR
The war on Iran and the Israelisation of America
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Fascism is not just blackshirts. It is the father who rages over his trans daughter. It is the incel who feels entitled to a wife because he is a man. The emotional, terminal core of fascism is power that is told “no.” Thus, the war against fascism must be a war against conservative hierarchy"
liberalcurrents.com
It Was Fascism All Along
A response to Toby Buckle.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"If a theory cannot help people understand reality, then it needs to be re-examined...if a theory appears persuasive, yet fails when put into practice. In such a case, reflection becomes necessary. Through reflection, existing theories can be improved, and new theories can be developed."
pekingnology.com
Justin Yifu Lin: The Basics of New Structural Economics
Former Chief Economist and Senior VP of World Bank says development theory goes astray when it mistakes structural difference for mere backwardness.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"In other words, everything is both diegetic and not; Wright doesn’t see the grammar of filmmaking as just a means to an end, but as an orchestra of instruments capable of making their own beautiful, hilarious music."
brightwalldarkroom.com
Hot Fuzz and the Comedy of Tactility
Hot Fuzz leverages every perfect match-cut and hilariously blocked visual gag to create something lastingly comforting and deliriously entertaining.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"it is imperative to recognize the present moment not as a rupture but a repetition under new conditions: the same geography of extraction and control, the same fantasy of white imperialist domination of trade chokepoints, now mobilized through satellites, algorithms, and precision munitions."
nplusonemag.com
Night of the Two Suns | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh
As the tragedy of murder and destruction unfolds in Iran—and Lebanon, and Palestine—an unbearable farce is simultaneously being staged in the imperial center.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"If we want to understand how the modern world economy was built, we have to stop treating the trafficking and chattel enslavement of Africans as a tragic “labor system” sitting on the sidelines of industrialization. It was an engineered architecture of extraction"
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com
Slavery is the Gravest Crime against Humanity
Slavery wasn’t a “Chapter” in Capitalism. It was the Business Model
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"Allowing private capital free rein to roam and rack its way across the global economy under a variable geometry of middling powers offers no blueprint for a better future."
phenomenalworld.org
Rupture, What Rupture? | Richard Kozul-Wright
Mark Carney’s speech at Davos has got the international community talking about rupture; but his value-based realism is a thinly veiled attempt to salvage a neoliberal international order with Canadia...
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"The great challenge that we face is not that we need to find new forms of non-market coordination. It is to find ways of democratizing the forms of planning and hierarchy that exist. We do not have to ask, well, how do we organize production without markets? — because we already do."
jwmason.substack.com
Talking about Against Money at the New School
This is the edited transcript of a talk I delivered on March 5 at the Heilbroner Center for the Study of Capitalism at the New School for Social Research in New York, at the invitation of Julia Ott.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"First, in complex market environments, protecting parallel competition may require fostering certain forms of friction that disperse market power and ensure that they occur on reasonably egalitarian terms. Preventing interference is not always the same as preserving competition."
promarket.org
Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind - ProMarket
In a new volume chapter, Shai Agmon and Samuel Bagg argue that academic and policy references to “competition” often fail to distinguish between competition’s many forms. Their disaggregation of compe...
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"this project would not eliminate state intervention. It would redirect it away from constraining coercion and abuse within ideologically approved families and toward enforcing conformity. The rhetoric of rights would remain, but its function would shift from limiting domination to legitimizing it."
liberalcurrents.com
"Parental Rights" and the Authoritarian Family
For advocates of "parental rights," family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"conservatism is dying. In the US and UK at least, it is dead. This has been destabilizing to be sure, but let us not waste too much sympathy on it. It caused many harms and ignored many more. It was, in the final pass, not one half of the human political spirit, but one set of ideas amongst many."
liberalcurrents.com
It Wasn't Fascism All Along
Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”... is hardly a tendency idiosyncratically restricted to our fourty-seventh president. It’s a core feature of the office"
nplusonemag.com
You Can Just Do Things | Patrick Blanchfield
As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”—in David Frum’s formulation over the...
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information. I am very sorry for the frustration and the waste of your research time.”
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com
“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"...we’re confronted with what all the Edge men – from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates – did with the intellectual territory they seized. With their Ivy League posts, their billions, and their blue-ribbon DNA, the would-be intellectuals converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf."
thenerve.news
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"If what makes a person unfree is dependence on another’s will, then private dependence is, they argued, as corrosive as public dependence. A worker who can be dismissed at will, a tenant without security, a debtor bound to a creditor – each lives under a structure of subordination"
aeon.co
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"According to Germany’s Kiel Institute, American consumers paid well over 90 percent of the cost of tariffs. There’s no mechanism in place for the American people to get any refunds on payments for illegal tariffs at all."
prospect.org
The Looming Chaos of Tariff Refunds - The American Prospect
Companies, consumers, and hedge funds all want a piece of the revenue from the tariffs the Supreme Court invalidated. That will create unnecessary economic damage.
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Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I see a lot of people fixating on how inflation robs them of purchasing power. That’s reasonable, but never let it distract you from the far bigger robber of purchasing power, which is bosses who constantly try reduce your wages so that shareholders and billionaires can get a bigger slice of the pie
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Today, the average WNBA yearly salary is roughly $102,000, while in the NBA it’s $13 million, approximately 130 times greater... and it’s not as if the WNBA’s fortunes are sagging; quite the contrary. The league has been projected to earn $1 billion in 2025"
prospect.org
Baselines and Picket Lines - The American Prospect
Superstar athletes are close to American royalty, but they still have to fight like other workers for fair pay.
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mastergastronome.bsky.social @mastergastronome.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Joke of the year material here
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