Next week: three papers presented across two conferences, all from separate projects. Topics spanning cleavages, civil society, group appeals, interwar elections, & the challenges of text analysis. It's been a helluva month getting all these drafts together, but I'm looking forward to #CES & #EPSS.
Thesis: America is a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the world.
Antithesis: America is a white supremacist settler colonial state that cannot be redeemed, only dismantled.
Synthesis: "America" is an empty signifier whose political meaning is being fought over each and every day.
Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki
Joel S.
If it becomes such a place, I have a burning personal vendetta against UPS DE I would like to express
3) We are in the middle of an AI investment bubble, under which (even under recently increased prices) the costs to end users is still being highly subsidized by investment capital, and that bubble will, at some point, burst
