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The Engineering of Ideas: Introducing the Conceptual History of Technology

Posted by Traces on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:12PM
from the jhiblog.org dept.

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/09/08/the-engineering-of-ideas-introducing-the-forum-on-the-conceptual-history-of-technology/

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The left's plan to fix housing in Paris

Posted by Traces on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:00AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/76fbd82f-b0bd-4dd0-81d1-fc6c15ec64ff

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Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs?

Posted by Traces on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:59AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/9a8aee4e-9cf6-4bb3-b7ea-d95ddd0d5e79

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My Advice to Sam Altman: Read Jacques Derrida

Posted by Traces on Thursday August 28, 2025 @05:27AM
from the observer.co.uk dept.

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/my-advice-to-gpt-5-read-derrida-and-youll-learn-words-are-not-the-same-as-intelligence

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Trump vs. Fed; or: history is forcing the question of a democratic central bank

Posted by Traces on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:46AM
from the adamtooze.substack.com dept.

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-406-trump-v-the-fed-or

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Written in the Stars? Alphabets and Angels in Early Modern Europe

Posted by Traces on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:09AM
from the muse.jhu.edu dept.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/966903

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Why are young adults in the English-speaking world so unhappy?

Posted by Traces on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:11AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/0c628bdb-a3f6-47c1-9684-a47410bd4adf

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The 'hallucinations' that haunt AI: why chatbots struggle to tell the truth

Posted by Traces on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @04:33AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/7a4e7eae-f004-486a-987f-4a2e4dbd34fb

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Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire

Posted by Traces on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @10:00AM
from the jhiblog.org dept.

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/07/14/everything-has-a-price-the-commercial-gaze-and-the-origins-of-corporate-empire/

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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality

Posted by Traces on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:03AM
from the news.un.org dept.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165146

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A Knock at the Door. Mamdani's New York

Posted by Traces on Friday June 27, 2025 @07:10AM
from the nplusonemag.com dept.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-knock-at-the-door/

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How the next financial crisis starts. The climate shocks that trigger turmoil

Posted by Traces on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:52PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/9e5df375-650d-492e-ba51-fb5a34e6ddd6

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China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power

Posted by Traces on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:25PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power

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AI returns still a long way from justifying investment mania

Posted by Traces on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:56PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/eb1f7a80-6a4f-436d-8578-61020fa4b216

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Will the Democrats learn from Zohran Mamdani's victory?

Posted by Traces on Thursday June 26, 2025 @06:26AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/democrats-learn-zohran-mamdani-victory

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Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won

Posted by Traces on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @07:53AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/zohran-mamdani-offered-a-political-revolution-and-won

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Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many

Posted by Traces on Monday June 23, 2025 @01:43PM
from the jacobin.com dept.

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/mamdani-nyc-election-climate-policy

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Where is Iran's uranium? Questions remain over stash of enriched material

Posted by Traces on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:39AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/12a864cc-eeb8-4725-aed8-5ddff9ac588e

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The Fiscal Crisis of the Energy State

Posted by Traces on Friday June 20, 2025 @04:02PM
from the phenomenalworld.org dept.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/the-fiscal-crisis-of-the-energy-state/

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Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence

Posted by Traces on Thursday June 19, 2025 @08:33AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/d20e8c22-bc03-4404-ac93-f7886525d8d6

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"Language and Image Minus Cognition." Leif Weatherby on LLMs

Posted by Traces on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:03AM
from the jhiblog.org dept.

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/11/language-and-image-minus-cognition-an-interview-with-leif-weatherby/

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Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?

Posted by Traces on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:06PM
from the versobooks.com dept.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst

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Political Emotions on the Far Right

Posted by Traces on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:32AM
from the tank.tv dept.

https://tank.tv/magazine/issue-103/features/political-emotions-on-the-far-right

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What Is Post-Fascism?

Posted by Traces on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:54AM
from the jhiblog.org dept.

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/04/what-is-post-fascism/

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Geographical Immorality:Macpherson and Intermediaries of Empire in 18th C. India

Posted by Traces on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:15AM
from the jhiblog.org dept.

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/28/geographical-immorality-john-macpherson-and-intermediaries-of-empire-in-eighteenth-century-india/

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Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks

Posted by Traces on Sunday May 25, 2025 @03:35PM
from the cambridge.org dept.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/without-roots-the-political-consequences-of-collective-economic-shocks/1BA32999CD907689CA66A6CB06B8519B

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Can Google still dominate search in the age of AI chatbots?

Posted by Traces on Saturday May 24, 2025 @05:00PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/dec83193-c787-4301-8098-4277fdd0e5af

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Freedom and Its Limits: Edward Wilmot Blyden's Black Republicanism

Posted by Traces on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:07PM
from the jhiblog.org dept.

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/30/freedom-and-its-limits-edward-wilmot-blydens-black-republicanism/

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Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever

Posted by Traces on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:36PM
from the epi.org dept.

https://www.epi.org/blog/americans-favor-labor-unions-over-big-business-now-more-than-ever/