Pinned post
Ben Anderson
@BenAndersonGeog
Professor in Human Geography at Durham University. New book with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
1.6K Following 5.7K Followers 7K Posts
Latest posts 5
Confirming everything ever said about centrist democrats - would rather a republican won than a candidate of the left.
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.View quoted post on X
The ignorance here is startling - so much academic work pointing out this is exactly what neoliberalism is!
We haven't had neoliberalism for decades. Instead we have a system where central banks suppress risk, governments rescue failure and taxpayers absorb losses.View quoted post on X
Gains are privatised; risks are socailised.
This isn't capitalism; it's the opposite.
thetimes.com/comment/column…
Has there ever been a technology where all the hype centres on things that sound like the worst kind of dystopian bs?
🇺🇸 Zuckerberg says that in 5 years you will have a personal AI that knows your life and does the work for you.
"Everyone is going to have an agent that really intimately understands your goals and everything around you and can help you get stuff done."
He means one assistant on money, health, the house, the calendar, running in the background all day.
Meta wants that agent sitting inside the apps people already live in, so it becomes the way you get through a normal day.
Writer: LucasView quoted post on X
Another example of the genre - a superlative (‘breathtaking’) for something utterly soul crushingly banal
when Anthropic released their Functional Emotions paper, I gave it to Claude and asked for a song. tonight I asked Opus 5.5 to create a video for it. and it's breathtaking.View quoted post on X
