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Abe Newman (@abenewman.bsky.social)
W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
 ) and I have a new piece in [@wired.com](
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WIRED (@wired.com)
For Future Reference. Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters Find our WIRED journalists here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/couts...
 ) on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire [amzn.to/3PbIyqX](
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The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
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Languages are systems. They can most certainly have biases, but they do not and cannot have goals. Exactly the same is true for the mathematical models of language that are produced by transformers ... the English language ... is never going to become conscious and decide to turn us into paperclips. [Cultural theory was right abou...](
Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early
How old theories explain the new technology of LLMs
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Given how much of this is supposed to be done through imposing administrative burdens on the overburdened, my hopelessly utopian dream is for a minor civil society revival of organizations and trained volunteers working to help the victims navigate the system, building social connections so doing. RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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"A one sentence explanation of the Federalist Society vs. Trump might be this. An ideology welded to a spoils machine is in a fight to the death against a spoils machine welded to a spoils machine." [www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-federa...](
The Federalist Society claims it's just a debating club
Now it risks becoming one.
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The Federalist Society claims it's just a debating club
Now it risks becoming one.
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@Alan Beattie - the Banter Singularity is Upon Us. RE:
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Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social)
this is at least the funniest way for the US-led trade order to collapse [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Absolute power can be a terrible weakness. On Trump, and how to mobilize against him [www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p...](
Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
The respective vulnerabilities of tyrants and crowds
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Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
The respective vulnerabilities of tyrants and crowds
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