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AOC has been good. This guy also looks like a player. Ezra Klein's latest podcast (A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently, Feb. 19) is a convo with Jake Auchincloss, a Dem who is new to me and has interesting ideas. Recorded in January, it's completely relevant, especially on issues such as crypto, housing & the attention economy.

How mathematics built the modern world: Mathematics was the cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution. A new paradigm of measurement and calculation, more than scientific discovery, built industry, modernity, and the world we inhabit today.

Long read article from late 2023, I'm so behind on my "to read" list. Interesting history and perspectives of mathematics. Recommended by a recent guest on #EzraKlein podcast.

worksinprogress.co/issue/how-m

"Most of the significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution were not undergirded by a deep scientific understanding, and their inventors were not scientists."

"The standard chronology ignores many of the important events of the previous 500 years. Widespread trade expanded throughout Europe. Artists began using linear perspective and mathematicians learned to use derivatives. Financiers started joint stock corporations and ships navigated the open seas. Fiscally powerful states were conducting warfare on a global scale."

"There is an intellectual thread that runs through all of these advances: measurement and calculation."

Image: Water wheel from Ramelli’s Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine (1588).

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2) Klein leads with facts, historical realities both long past and recent. He shine’s a light on a supine, craven, #GOP controlled, #NPC Congress which stands abjectly submissive in the face of the #Musk - #Trump duopoly. It is a shameful moment.

#journalism #EzraKlein #USPolitics #NewsMedia

nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and OursBy Ezra Klein
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@collectiveevil Uutisista ylikuormittumisen ("overwhelm") suunnitteli #SteveBannon jo v. 2019. Hän käytti siihen tähtäävästä strategiasta #muzzleVelocity -ja #FloodTheZoneWithShit nimityksiä:

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#EzraKlein ja Bannon selittävät ilmiön toimivuuden heti tämän videon alussa: youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?si=f3TLER

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The strategy #Trump employs to play the system against its own working mechanisms by overwhelming slow administrative processes with a barrage of executive orders has a precursor in economic theory:

Joseph Schumpeter's principle of "creative destruction" - tear down the whole building instead of repairing it to gain new grounds for capital accumulation - served neoliberalism well as long as they could privatize public assets to produce economic growth regardless of the social costs,

but is in the end responsible for the sad state of affairs in global crisis, more economic distress for a growing number of people worldwide, unchecked climate catastrophe and militaristic adventurism rising from the fertile grounds of national chauvinistic reaction to this disaster strategy

#NaomiKlein critizised this concept of destroying the livelihoods of functioning social reproduction all over the world as "The Shock Doctrine", which has found its latest version in the "disruption" ideology of the BigTech-broligarchy.

So the new executive monopoly Trump tries to install in accord with BigTech-billionaires clings onto the idea of a self-enforcing cycle of accelerating the speed of repressive measures thereby weakening any opposition to this challenge by exploiting the already installed logics of social darwinistic subjectivity
- people try to evade the incoming dictatorship to save their skin thereby decreasing the chances of building a united opposition against the new outright fascistic order.

#EzraKlein puts his hope in a working
democratic system where congress and courts would stop this power grab.

I myself doubt that it is enough not to believe Trump and hold onto the separation of powers - imo Trump has already answered the question of power in a very material sense to his advantage. So any opposition to this might need to enforce other measures than just to hope on an outcome where democratic freedom will win.

#executiveorder #fascism

youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6

Ezra Klein, in a short clarifying talk gives some valuable insights and maybe a spark of hope about the turnip era...

The Trump-Elon duo is acting fast, but not with a clear long term plan. They want us all overloaded.
Immediately Naomi Klein's 'Shock Doctrine' sprang to mind.

DON'T BELIEVE HIM!

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