Malte Laub
@maltelaub.bsky.social
Teaches IPE at the University of Sheffield.
Umstritten war nicht die Frage, ob Intelligenz von Eltern an ihre Kinder vererbt wird. Die Kritik setzte an, wo individuelle Vererbung auf ethnische Gruppen hochskaliert, diese so hierarchisiert und daraus gesellschaftliche Wertungen abgeleitet wurden. Das ist sozialdarwinistische Argumentation.
"every feature is a property development in disguise: a data center on entitled land, financed with debt against the structure and leased to tenants on take-or-pay terms. This is not a software business that happens to own servers. It is a real estate business that happens to compute."
"The AI build-out... is increasingly financed not by selling overpriced equity but by contracting future cash flows and borrowing against hardware.... That is not the architecture of 2000. That is the architecture of 2008." www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second...
The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom
The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.
groundbrkr.com
AI hyperscalers are now 16.1% of the S&P 500 Semiconductors 19.2% Both trade with a market multiple JPMAM In all, 51.5% of the SPX is AI-related
So Isabella Weber was right, and all the serious economists who lost their minds over her were wrong? Got it.
FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com · last mo.How US egg producers gamed prices while blaming bird flu ft.trib.al/xxPS5Gr #FTEdit
All these "ha! such a commie" comments in response to this tweet as if this isn't in line with fascism. “You have inflation only if you want it . . . Inflation is a lack of discipline. I will see to it that prices remain stable. I have my S.A. for that.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · last mo.Federal government setting prices but make it right-wing and psychotic.
Citizenship in the News 🇩🇪 DW: A family from Togo has been stripped of their legally obtained German citizenship under a racist colonial law, leaving them stateless. Unable to return to 🇹🇬 as they were forced to give up their Togolese citizenship for the German one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0d...
Germany revokes family's citizenship due to racist colonial law | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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@alfdubs.bsky.social remains one of the staunchest defendants of refugee rights. He is, as usual, absolutely correct here. I won't hold my breath, but Burnham should absolutely rip up Starmer and Mahmood's entire legacy of hostile immigration and asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees
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Universities don't currently have a 'business model'. Home UGs do not provide it, and overseas PGs are viewed as too (geo)politically volatile to be relied on. Hence, we're in the situation where the highest-ranking 30 universities live off the other 100, aka 'accumulation by dispossession'
Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵
Ordered a full length mirror from Dunelm - arrived shattered which was unsurprising since it didn’t have any foam packaging. Ordered replacement: also shattered, same story. Ordered from Ikea: also shattered, same story again. I now have three broken mirrors in the hallway waiting for the bin men.
(Trigger warning: any sociologists among us may wish to avert their eyes to avoid spontaneous combustion resulting from exposure to the worst theory of social action I have seen in decades) For the rest of you, beware if you are “unhappy” or “looking for justice” you may be on the road to terrorism
Tonight, in Oxford Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox addressed an empty chamber at almost midnight. This happened because Oxford residents, ordinary residents, showed up in their thousands to make clear that Oxford rejects the racist and divisive bile that Robinson and his ilk spread.
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.
the AI claim is very likely a lie here. Korean right-wingers have a history of trying to put their horrible shit into popular culture and the CEO of the group is a well-known chud. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/09/s...
Why a South Korean Starbucks Ad Mocked Murdered Protesters
Far-right meme politics shows how strong anti-democratic forces remain.
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Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou will never guess how this mad story is related to AI slop… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Palestine Action terror ban remains in place after Home Office wins appeal
Government's decision to proscribe group 'struck a fair balance', Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr tells Court of Appeal
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Which is the crux of it. Previous governments dismantled third spaces, family and child resources etc. Current councils of all stripes are closing youth clubs and libraries. There’s nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2mo agoA discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”
A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
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20) Bearing that in mind, the current UK Govt is putting together an even more expanded toolbox for rights limitations and authoritarian mechanisms that any future Govt can use for easily expandable ends. This will become about YOU if it isn't already (the harm in many communities is already real).
On the (frankly terrifying) current state of things in the UK. (Terrifying both in developments themselves and in how they have been alternately minimized, enabled, egged on, and legitimated by the media and the Labour government)
Tanja Bueltmann@tanjabueltmann.net · 2mo agoThere are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵
18.2🪻No bond like the #Coronabond @tiagomramalho.bsky.social makes a critical contribution, uncovering how the notion of 'responsible #Government' in the EU changed following interstate #Coalitions
The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union - Volume 18 Issue 2
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I thought this was fake, but as per their Instagram account, the Oxford Union has invited Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox to propose the motion "The West if Right to be Suspicious of Islam". The institutions of this country, and I'm afraid this is one, are spectacularly failing to meet the moment.
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
Elon Musk is paying fascists to riot and attack minorities in our cities. Some he is paying, others he doesn't need to, the X algorithm and revenue program do the rest. The UK's leading nazi thug is posting from a Moscow hotel room right now. We need to wake up to foreign money and the far right.
Belfast last night is the future for the U.K. some people want. The political voices condemning it so far seem to be mild and weak. We need a wall of outrage from people of influence to make it crystal clear that this is not who we are and will not be tolerated.
