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Sebastian Koth
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science & technoology & political economy
researcher @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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johannespetry.bsky.social
How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Was taugt der Begriff "demokratischer Faschismus"?

Eine Rezension:
Jan-Werner Müller · Was ist demokratisch am «demokratischen Faschismus»?
Mit ihrem Begriff des «libertären Autoritarismus» bestimmten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey die Post-Pandemie-Diskussion über neue und aggressive politische Lagerbildungen. Ihr Buch Zerstörungsl...
blnreview.de
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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matthewspecter.bsky.social
Pleased to be presenting here in Berlin—program here: transatlantic-reason.info
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org
The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.

The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now

#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky

https://cup.org/3IDqYNf
Meme of Bernie Sanders
September 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Wie kann KI offen & verantwortungsvoll gestaltet werden? Zwei neue Publikationen fassen Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Yes, we are open!?“ zusammen. Die Veröffentlichungen bieten Empfehlungen für Politik & Praxis – für eine faire, zukunftsfähige KI. 🌍🤖 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
Wege zu fairer und offener KI-Governance
Welche Rahmenbedingungen sind für die verantwortliche Gestaltung von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Open Science notwendig? Zwei neue Veröffentlichungen bündeln Konferenzergebnisse und entwickeln Handlun...
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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derekbryant.bsky.social
"Civil society, as Gramsci understood, and as today’s liberals do not, is a terrain of struggle. It is not, and cannot be, an agent."
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Dylan Riley, Contra Arendt — Sidecar
On civil society.
newleftreview.org
October 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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efin-diskurs.bsky.social
"5 Jahre nach dem DeFi Summer: Eine kritische Reflexion zu den Demokratieversprechen der Decentralized-Finance-Industrie"
Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Tara Merk setzt sich im Beitrag für unseren Blog vor allem mit DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) auseinander.
👉 zevedi.de/efinblog-fun...
Symbolgrafik mit Computerbildschirm und den Sprechblasen "Yes" und "No".
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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ecsa.io
Check out our latest bulletin, which marks the official launch of our redesigned website (ecsa.io)
August 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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toteraltermann.bsky.social
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?

Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
An expanded repost from Twitter/X
wondrousmachine.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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wilsonti7.bsky.social
He was not as old as that image from the Wikipedia, but he was a young man either, and matters seemed to weigh on him. Not a frivilous person

This piece by him in 1982 from @bostonreview.bsky.social remains relevant
Computer Science and Civil Courage - Boston Review
Are the questions we seek to answer to be dictated by the powerful few, or are they to be open to debate among citizens and scientists?
www.bostonreview.net
August 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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mattpeterson.bsky.social
I’ve spent the last several weeks learning everything I can about what President Trump and his allies want from the new Fed chair. I put all that together in a cover story for Barron’s. It's not just rate cuts.

Tldr; Expect major disruption at the Fed. Staff cuts, model changes, polarization & more
Trump Will Remake the Fed. Lower Rates Are Just the Start.
President Donald Trump wants the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by a lot, quickly. He will get that, and probably much more, under the next Fed chair.
www.barrons.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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molly.wiki
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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phenomenalworld.bsky.social
“The months since April 2 have clarified the multiple contradictory desires of the Trump administration vis-a-vis its position in the global economic hierarchy.”

@rajakorman.bsky.social on Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mon...
Monetizing Primacy | Karthik Sankaran
Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity
www.phenomenalworld.org
July 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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jvtk.bsky.social
For the European Parliament, Eric Monnet, ‪@edomartino.bsky.social‬ and I wrote on USD stablecoins:

Will Donald Trump get rich selling his private $$$ coins to EU residents? Probably not, but stablecoins may still uproot the global monetary order.

www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/2964...
June 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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thebaffler.com
Machine-generated visuals are “mean” in every sense: malevolent, meager, mediated, miserly, minor. And this garbage isn’t just poisoning your brain. It’s priming you for a future of ever more extraction and surveillance.
Another Bullshit Night in Slop City | Will Harrison
In her new collection of essays, Hito Steyerl plunges into the rising tide of AI-generated slop.
thebaffler.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
sebastiankoth.bsky.social
“Don’t be fooled. This is not really a crypto bill. The GENIUS Act has little to do with Bitcoin or Ethereum or memecoins. Instead, this is a very significant, and bad, banking reform law.”

openbanker.beehiiv.com/p/ittakesage...
It Takes a GENIUS to Cause a Financial Crisis
Written by Brian Shearer
openbanker.beehiiv.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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cedricdurand.bsky.social
Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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alondra.bsky.social
We face active campaigns to discredit research that challenges economic interests or social hierarchies.

For 50 years, the field of bioethics has focused on laws, regulations & norms but failed to adequately grapple with issues of power.
Screen shot from STAT News: “Perhaps the greatest challenge to cosmopolitan bioethics today is the deliberate fracturing of our knowledge ecosystems along ideological lines,” said Alondra Nelson, who served as acting director of the Office of Science And Technology Policy under President Biden. “We face not just passive disinvestment from science, but active campaigns to discredit research that challenges particular economic interests or social hierarchies.” This is something of a fundamentally new challenge for those who study and advocate for bioethics, she continued, which for most of its history has mostly dealt in laws and regulations and norms and failed to adequately grapple with issues of power. In the U.S., the past 50 years have been characterized by a compact between universities and the government, which have driven economic and social development, described in the 1990s as “the triple helix model of innovation.” The problem, Nelson said, is that most people assumed that the actors in those ecosystems all shared equal power. That was never really the case, and the Trump administration’s wielding of the government’s power to cancel research grants, lay off thousands of federal health agency workers, and scrub mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion from the scientific landscape now is making the case clear."
May 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order.

My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
Eunice Mercado-Lara, Shannon Dosemagen, and Alison Parker argue, “Without a vision to broaden who can participate in federal procurement, the federal government will keep overpaying for outdated systems, stifle competition, and surrender leadership in critical fields like AI and healthcare.”
Unlocking Innovation: Why Federal Procurement Should Embrace Open Source | TechPolicy.Press
Eunice Mercado-Lara, Shannon Dosemagen, and Alison Parker make the case for reforming federal procurement rules to boost open source solutions.
www.techpolicy.press
May 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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policyr.bsky.social
[New paper] Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control, By @juanof9.bsky.social
policyreview.info/articles/ana... #undersea #telecom
May 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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himself.bsky.social
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one.

www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one
Liberals and libertarians should make common cause against it
www.programmablemutter.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
"Every day, more and more of the national income produced by legitimate work and businesses disappears into the maw of innumerable scams and grifts, from phishing emails to scam texts and calls to phone hacks to crypto rug pulls to MLMs." prospect.org/culture/book...
Pyramid Schemes Are Eating American Capitalism
Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything.
prospect.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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restofworld.org
“Our customers say the dishes we used to cook tasted much better than what the robots serve now,” said one worker at a South Korean roadside restaurant. “Even though the robots have lightened my workload, I’ve lost my sense of pride in our food.”
restofworld.org/2025/robot-c...
Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.
restofworld.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Fact 1 "The spectacular acceleration in global renewable investment is, in fact, a story about 1 country: China"

Fact 2 "The renewable share of new capacity additions in electricity generation worldwide is 90%" -Tooze

Why are these 2 facts not known broadly?
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
May 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM