Yiannis Kalaitzis
@yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social
Having studied philosophy and political theory,
preferring reading than writing, mainly interested in
ideology, power, and digital environments.
preferring reading than writing, mainly interested in
ideology, power, and digital environments.
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Excellent piece
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...
Great Power Antinomies | Phenomenal World
In recent months, the gradual reversal of US semi-conductor controls has triggered alarm across the national security establishment. But far from a sign of reconciliation, the move signals a transform...
www.phenomenalworld.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excellent piece
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...
From 2023 but a really good one. New year's perspectives.
Great channel by Jonas Čeika.
Great channel by Jonas Čeika.
Two Philosophical Perspectives on New Year's Resolutions
YouTube video by Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
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December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From 2023 but a really good one. New year's perspectives.
Great channel by Jonas Čeika.
Great channel by Jonas Čeika.
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“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
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The world has gone mad. Farmers want vaccines for their animals, while people don't want their kids to be vaccinated. Maybe we should create a financial argument to encourage parents to keep their kids healthy. 🙄
Lumpy skin disease: Farmers demand vaccines and reject culling
Lumpy skin disease: Farmers demand vaccines and reject culling
After vaccination zones and a protection zone were implemented in the Occitanie region of southern France, concern is now growing in the Aveyron. The department, home to 500,000 cattle, has the largest herd in the region, with half of them being the Aubrac breed.
www.lemonde.fr
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The world has gone mad. Farmers want vaccines for their animals, while people don't want their kids to be vaccinated. Maybe we should create a financial argument to encourage parents to keep their kids healthy. 🙄
"the psyche can flow from action, that what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is simply to act, in some small way, as if you already were that sort of subject."
Excellent article by Amia Srinivasan
Excellent article by Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"the psyche can flow from action, that what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is simply to act, in some small way, as if you already were that sort of subject."
Excellent article by Amia Srinivasan
Excellent article by Amia Srinivasan
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"If you wanna post disinformation memes with no verification, it's free. If you wanna post actual links to news that people can verify, it'll cost ya."
Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
techcrunch.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"If you wanna post disinformation memes with no verification, it's free. If you wanna post actual links to news that people can verify, it'll cost ya."
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Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
After a break, let's recommend some books that fascinated me this year.
1. Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
2. Red Pill - Hari Kunzru
3. Algorithms of resistance - T. Bonini, E. Trere
4. Mythocracy - Yves Citton
5. Seeing like a Platform - P. Tornberg, J. Uitermark
1. Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
2. Red Pill - Hari Kunzru
3. Algorithms of resistance - T. Bonini, E. Trere
4. Mythocracy - Yves Citton
5. Seeing like a Platform - P. Tornberg, J. Uitermark
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
After a break, let's recommend some books that fascinated me this year.
1. Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
2. Red Pill - Hari Kunzru
3. Algorithms of resistance - T. Bonini, E. Trere
4. Mythocracy - Yves Citton
5. Seeing like a Platform - P. Tornberg, J. Uitermark
1. Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
2. Red Pill - Hari Kunzru
3. Algorithms of resistance - T. Bonini, E. Trere
4. Mythocracy - Yves Citton
5. Seeing like a Platform - P. Tornberg, J. Uitermark
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War is not only the threat of violence. It is the collapse of moral and political order: a moment when the rules of coexistence fall apart, laws twist into something else, and human life loses its value, or takes on a new one.
aeon.co/essays/it-is...
aeon.co/essays/it-is...
It is not democratic to go to war without the people’s consent | Aeon Essays
The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy
aeon.co
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
War is not only the threat of violence. It is the collapse of moral and political order: a moment when the rules of coexistence fall apart, laws twist into something else, and human life loses its value, or takes on a new one.
aeon.co/essays/it-is...
aeon.co/essays/it-is...
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"a technology that emerged against an ongoing denial of collective trauma, adapted to a historic moment in ways that persist beyond it"
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"a technology that emerged against an ongoing denial of collective trauma, adapted to a historic moment in ways that persist beyond it"
While the regulatory procedures based on laws are always helpful, it is obvious, once again, that the main aspects of the digital sphere (platforms, data, AI etc.) are political issues, because they have to do with power and the inscriptions of it. So, we need political -not legal- answers to them.
The EU promised to lead on regulating artificial intelligence. Now it’s hitting pause.
Under pressure from the U.S. and tech companies, the EU is backing away from plans to rein in highly risky technologies.
www.politico.eu
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
While the regulatory procedures based on laws are always helpful, it is obvious, once again, that the main aspects of the digital sphere (platforms, data, AI etc.) are political issues, because they have to do with power and the inscriptions of it. So, we need political -not legal- answers to them.
"So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one."
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one."
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
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"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
The Media We Need Requires Structural Transformation | Public i Contact
publici.ucimc.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
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Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.
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Arendt argues that political life, like aesthetics, is characterised by an innate, albeit now widely ignored, human need for self-display through performances that are not labour, or routine, or ritual, but what she, following Rosenberg, called ‘action’.
aeon.co/essays/harol...
aeon.co/essays/harol...
Harold Rosenberg exhorted artists to take action and resist cliché | Aeon Essays
Throughout decades of writing, Harold Rosenberg exhorted artists to resist cliché and conformity and instead take action
aeon.co
October 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Arendt argues that political life, like aesthetics, is characterised by an innate, albeit now widely ignored, human need for self-display through performances that are not labour, or routine, or ritual, but what she, following Rosenberg, called ‘action’.
aeon.co/essays/harol...
aeon.co/essays/harol...
"A lie creates the immediate impression that one believes something that happens to be false, but that does not mean that one is not what one seems... Hypocrisy turns on questions of character rather than simply coincidence with the truth."
- David Runciman
- David Runciman
October 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"A lie creates the immediate impression that one believes something that happens to be false, but that does not mean that one is not what one seems... Hypocrisy turns on questions of character rather than simply coincidence with the truth."
- David Runciman
- David Runciman
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"Could [journalism] shape the foreground [of AI content] as the sensemaking layer that anchors trust? The News Atom is a metadata blueprint designed to respond to this question."
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Introducing the News Atom: a metadata blueprint for journalism in the age of AI
Our Indian Fellow Sannuta Raghu presents the News Atom, a concept to wrap each sentence in a news story with metadata about what type of knowledge it contains, if and how it was changed, how it connec...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Could [journalism] shape the foreground [of AI content] as the sensemaking layer that anchors trust? The News Atom is a metadata blueprint designed to respond to this question."
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Funny when people thing that we are talking about another sector of the economy and not for an inscription in our cultural paradigm. In other words, it's not so much about the entities behind the digital accelerated sphere, it is about the dominant ideology driving them on.
The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly | Nils Pratley
The broad parallels are genuinely close to the madness of the late-1990s dotcom bubble
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Funny when people thing that we are talking about another sector of the economy and not for an inscription in our cultural paradigm. In other words, it's not so much about the entities behind the digital accelerated sphere, it is about the dominant ideology driving them on.
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Breaking: Dutch court rules that Meta needs to offer chronological/ non algorithmic feed as clear and stable option (to Dutch users).
Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.
Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
nos.nl/l/2584891
Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.
Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
nos.nl/l/2584891
Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen
Bits of Freedom eiste dat in een rechtszaak en kreeg gelijk van de Nederlandse rechter.
nos.nl
October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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in case this helps
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www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-st...
The Story of Shit, book by Midas Dekkers
A wonderfully wry, erudite and altogether charming investigation into the most rarely discussed of bodily functions: defecation.
www.textpublishing.com.au
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
in case this helps
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-st...
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-st...
Sometimes you need a departure from reality in order to fully grasp its burden.
Max Richter - The Departure (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Max Richter
www.youtube.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sometimes you need a departure from reality in order to fully grasp its burden.
What is happening when different accounts follow different political parties (in Germany, before the recent elections) and then leave the algorithms to fill the rest of the feed? AfD get's promoted overwhelmingly (in Tik Tok and X), despite the initial preference of the user...
Political bias on TikTok and X in Germany
TikTok and X recommend pro-AfD content to non-partisan users ahead of the German elections
globalwitness.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What is happening when different accounts follow different political parties (in Germany, before the recent elections) and then leave the algorithms to fill the rest of the feed? AfD get's promoted overwhelmingly (in Tik Tok and X), despite the initial preference of the user...
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Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar
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September 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Excellent elaboration by @eric-reinhart.com on what counts as « violence » from anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytic angles.
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Excellent elaboration by @eric-reinhart.com on what counts as « violence » from anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytic angles.
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...