iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Will have to re-excavate my memory of that film (family getaway in the countryside right?)

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Saw a book about you and your friends

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And a good new one with foreword by Neil Brenner

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Off Microsoft Office by 2050 🤞

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Takes some parsing but yes

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Love that one (if a bit low on the pedagogy scale)

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a cynic‘s take: digital sovereignty pledges are the new net zero pledges.

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best take I've read on why these are so hard to make

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The Mayfair Set is a secret banger in this mode too

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What are people's favorite essay films/documentaries/series about global political economy?

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

been wondering about that one - i take this as a rec!

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Great discussion of Muskism on @thedigradio.bsky.social: how speculative finance, state power & hard infrastructure combine to build a reactionary future. And lovely to hear @quinnslobodian.com give my work on reactionary futurism a shout-out alongside Becca Lewis’s! thedigradio.com/podcast/musk...

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Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one hit especially hard after returning from Colombia and seeing the shameless AI-slop presidential campaign of our new neofascist president, government hyping of all the facets of AI-extraction, and Teslas flooding upscale Bogotá for the first time thedigradio.com/podcast/musk...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 03/10/2026

We’re going to be laid out awash in wonder!

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Librarian @isbi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finally some Bipartisan Consensus.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 03/10/2026

Listening to Bostrom interview beaming about how in a few years this dormroom solipsism might be all that is left of centuries of the humanistic tradition.

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Tilo Jung @tilojung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gestern bei Nazis Heute bei Springer

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Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"This idea of a human merger with machines has been a motif in Musk’s intellectual life, which has remained in many ways (and with many terrible results) that of an arrogant and cloistered adolescent boy."

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Space Oddity | Mark O’Connell

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another very important piece from @janetbufton.ca , engaging with @quinnslobodian.com and with some libertarian responses to him. I like the title of one of the sections as conveying a core idea: "Hayek's bastards, Rothbard's children." www.janetbufton.ca/p/a-hard-loo...

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A hard look at libertarianism

Quinn Slobodian's 2025 book provides the starting point of a more thorough post-mortem

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Thank you! The aversion to the man was an obstacle for us too as you can imagine.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I take that a little differently. Nature must remain outside of commodification to be exploited. Sorry implication for much of human labor in AI future is genuinely surplus, neither free nor gift.

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This is an excellent listen: @thedigradio.bsky.social with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their recent book. I went in cautiously b/c I can't spare another brain cell for Musk, but the emphasis is squarely on the 'ism'. Super interesting analysis. thedigradio.com/podcast/musk...

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It takes a while to get to the part you're reading it for (the bitchy part), but oh my god is it amazing when it does.

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You may find these hours extraordinarily trying, if for the simple reason that you will be solicited for a Ray Dalio reading group or a bachata class before you can finish your cup of coffee. Similar sessions seem to happen almost nightly in one of the hotel’s thirteenth-floor “KTV” rooms, which have been converted into ersatz conference-like event spaces for daily happenings. Their dimly lit and cheaply ornamented walls are lined with dark leather couches and bookcases of fake cardboard books titled inscrutable things like DARWINS THERIE and Furniture Design Idea Book.

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Yes, surplus humanity is the way to put it

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Need to bear in mind the uncomfortable adage that the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited at all: James Ferguson’s distinction between exploitation and abjection described so well in Global Shadows.

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And another student‘s panegyric to her dream job: “Kindles for Africa.”

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The true weirdness of this field has yet to be fully exploited for its uncanny qualities. I had a student years ago telling me about an experiment where they gave cameras to students so they could photograph their teachers—to improve learning outcomes.

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One sometimes gets the impression that decades of postcolonial critique had rendered the NGO sector paralyzingly self-conscious—-then you find the head of the largest private grant making foundation has simply ignored it.

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The level of paternalism is also jawdropping: a vision of “African farmers” as inert NPCs waiting for direction from Gates about “what to plant.”

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