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Top Links 1218 Why AI is coming to dominate coding. Expansionary contraction is baaaack. Psychosocial antifascism and the Three Arrows.

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (64+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1218 Why AI is coming to dominate coding. Expansionary contraction is baaaack. Psychosocial antifascism and the Three Arrows. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Continue reading this post for free, courtesy…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > top-links-1216-nvidias-network-yall

Top Links 1216 Nvidia's network. Y'all street. The history of the PMC & birds of paradise.

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (71+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1216 Nvidia's network. Y'all street. The history of the PMC & birds of paradise. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Santiago Rusinol 3 / 40Before the morphine (1890) The Economist’s deep dive into Nvidia’s financial network…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > top-links-1212-the-circularity-of

Top Links 1212 The circularity of Big Tech's earnings. Squeezing the middle tier of US higher ed. The Mad Dog of Europe & the peasant wars.

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (105+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1212 The circularity of Big Tech's earnings. Squeezing the middle tier of US higher ed. The Mad Dog of Europe & the peasant wars. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Fighting between…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > top-links-1211-scenarios-for-big

Top Links 1211 Scenarios for big tech. China's birth collapse. Air power in the Pacific & the violence of bureaucracy.

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (60+ words) adamtooze.substack.com Top Links 1211 Scenarios for big tech. China's birth collapse. Air power in the Pacific & the violence of bureaucracy. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > chartbook-472-neo-burgundian-technocracy

Chartbook 472 Neo-Burgundian technocracy: Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism.

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (914+ words) This is how Ernst Jünger’s 1939 classic On The Marble Cliffs reaches its turning point. Jünger conjures a world of high-powered cars with powerful lights, which make evening visits to vineyard retreats. This could be a scene in a French movie…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > tops-links-1208-profit-boom-political

Tops Links 1208 Profit boom. Political fragility. The shadow surge in deportations & ultra-long horizontal wells.

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (60+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Tops Links 1208 Profit boom. Political fragility. The shadow surge in deportations & ultra-long horizontal wells. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Alexander Ivanov 57 / 87Dream of Jacob (?) US corporate profits surge to record as worker…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > chips-data-centers-and-debt-emirates

Chips-data-centers and debt. Emirates and the mercenaries. Sweet sickness, Yesterday & the comeback of British cheese.

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (382+ words) Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Max Ernst The Phases of the Night (1946) Chip-makers and hyperscalers are repositioning, with Wall Street as Nvidia’s new partner The relationship between Nvidia and the hyperscalers—cloud giants such as Amazon, Google, Meta…...

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adamtooze.substack.com > p > top-links-1195-taxing-americas-dark

Top Links 1195 Taxing America's dark matter. Israeli emigration. Beijing insists Aristotle exists. Stuart Hall on political correctness.

4+ week, 19+ hour ago   (84+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1195 Taxing America's dark matter. Israeli emigration. Beijing insists Aristotle exists. Stuart Hall on political correctness. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze John Ferren, Rock Totems, 1948 Trump is taxing the dark…...