@philtinline
Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022) GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - The New Yorker) + https://tinyurl.com/POWER-FAILURE (Future Governance Forum) Last on Radio 4: Start the Week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q2qm
Busting the trusts!
Terrific long view & contemporary reporting from @philtinline.bsky.social
Timely economics in the age of the Tech bros
And for progressive politics a way to reintroduce some, well, politics into the conversation
Haha. Course you can. I've come across it in passing but will have a proper look.
Thanks Tom! I'm delighted you like it.
As I'm always saying: bring back the pamphlet!
There's a big space for non-fiction writing that sits somewhere between the long-read (c.5k words) and the full book (c.80k words).
The UK's AI copyright consultation has produced no consensus after two months - stakeholders can't agree on how to balance AI training rights with creator protections. Responses to the consultation did not favour any of the government’s proposed models for AI use of copyrighted materials.
The "hero" voter is an IT service manager in Milton Keynes, struggling with a mortgage and childcare costs. They are broadly progressive on immigration (but not small boats), the EU, the environment. They are irritated at getting ripped off when they go out for a meal or want to buy concert tickets.
We had a broadband outage (for the whole area) for several hours today. Grateful that at present none of our critical things like hot water, heating, washing machine etc don't need WiFi to function.
I used to love the Dukes of Hazzard. Just didn't realise, aged 7, that it was in fact political science
Follow the money
The Coinbase CEO met with Trump at the WH & hours later Trump attacked banks for opposing stablecoin yields
His family has made hundreds of millions from World Liberty Financial, which issues USD1 — a stablecoin that benefits directly!
Corruption in plain sight
I mean I'm sure therapy is ace, but I don't think it should involve running the Pentagon
Yes, George Orwell, a man who spent years getting over his youthful role in a brutal imperial police force, and who was famously relaxed about official lying, would absolutely definitely think Kristi Gnome was brilliant.
Hegseth is the decline of the West embodied in a sack of dubious tattoos.
Gilded Rage by Jacob Silverman
The Tech Coup by Marietje
Schaake
System Error by Jeremy Weinstein, Mehran Sahami and Rob Reich
This is smart.
There's a tendency to see 'populism' as a total, permanent infection, rather than a response to crisis. It carries serious risks, but it can be steered in a constructive direction. Cf FDR.
Thoughts on what follows from this here:
www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/resource/pow...
Lol.
So not because it was deemed too risky on the grounds that the effort of moderating that would kill an ox?
We are spending £500m on sovereign AI v $100bns per year invested in US.
Our budget will barely cover the laptops. We've given that much to Palantir alone!
bsky.app/profile/anth...
(and don't @ me with "we're all so entangled, it will take time, money etc." We know.)
Much to my surprise, I have also become a tech sovereigntist. Tech fundamental to public and security systems should be under our control (sometimes in cooperation with similar countries- not US).
The current sovereign AI strategy is shockingly weak.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
Good. One huge failure of the left is establishing the idea of private equity and its clout in the public mind.
Perhaps public-facing companies should be required to display notice of who owns them, what kind of company it is, and where it's based, on their front door, website and receipts.
Another sign that antimonopolism might be making headway among Democrats. This guy was billed as the moderate candidate, and he just won his primary in Texas to become Dem candidate for the Senate - but see what he says, and particularly how he talks about power:
bsky.app/profile/jame...
Sure you've seen this but just in case:
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
This is a solid plan
Thanks! Looks interesting.
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. H.J. Mai with the latest from DC, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @philtinline.bsky.social on the day's wider developments, and @guydelauney.bsky.social on Croatia's re-embrace of conscription. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Seems to me that the success of the Greens in G&D suggests this might have some lessons for Labour. Unfortunately, Labour seem to be heading in the opposite direction with their appointment to the chair of the CMA and their desperation to keep both big tech and big pharma onside.
Indeed. But that's not proving an unalloyed triumph so...
There's nothing inherently patriotic about being right-wing.
There's nothing inherently right-wing about being patriotic.
New Prospect out now! Featuring @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social and @philtinline.bsky.social on the new gilded age, @mrhenrymorris.substack.com's Prospect debut (on Reform), and read @maryftz.bsky.social on Saif Gaddafi for a sobering reminder on what sketchily planned wars of regime change lead to
