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The False Calm Before Steam: The Index H, Malthus, & the Long Slog, for Growth Was Very Real Before It Became Visible in Average Living…

The cliché says nothing happened before 1800. The data say capability rose steadily—only population swallowed the dividends. Replace vibes with an…

Nov 11 •

A Note: Reitter Translates Marx as He Was

Translation is intellectual engineering: accuracy and consistency are key: choose fidelity. Reading Marx without apocalyptic filters imposed because who…

Nov 10

Is it "Life, Liberty, & Democracy", or Is It "Life, Liberty, & Property"?

Democracy’s failure modes in the age of the Shadow Docket. Trump gives new life and force to the fears of Friedrich von Hayek. Spite-dictated tariffs…

Nov 9 •

Fascism in Action in America: Jennifer Moriarty & Daniel Biss Report from Chicago NorthShore

ICE in action in the MidWest: we are, right now, in big trouble. The only way out is through, via transparency and civic resistance…

Nov 8 •

Bubbles, Productive & Unproductive; Builders; & Bots: Why the AI Boom Isn’t One Story, But Rather the Vector Driving the AI Economy Is at…

Six dimensions are entrepreneurial-technological-industrial aspects of bubble dynamics that are at least somewhat familiar from history; six dimensions…

Nov 7 •

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Fourteen-Lion Parade

Parking this here so I can find it easily. In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows…

Jun 26 •

In the Country of the Tswana

In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows into the Kalahari Desert and dries up—to…

Jun 25 •

LECTURE NOTES: Lash, Cash, & Cotton in the Imperial-Commercial & Early SteamPower Age

& the racialization of slavery. A ten-mintue taste of what my lectures have to say about post-1500 slavery. This then becomes the lecture introduction…

Jun 21 •

Who Were the ‘We the People’ Back in 1787?: Race, Law, & Original Constitutional Sin

Plus the Reconstruction-Era XIV-Amendment redemption. In which I go down a rabbithole of “original public meaning” or whatever. A law student’s white…

Jun 21 •

What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?: How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistant :: POSSIBLE LECTURE OUTLINE

Anthology Intelligence: humanity's collective brain is already our superintelligent friend: We don't need to build superintelligence because we did it…

Jun 19 •

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