🚨Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor I spoke to @yanisvaroufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at @Web3summit in Berlin on June 18th, about why he thinks blockchain… https://firefly.social/post/ff-d59534b3068b4d3db635d15a6faa90a5?s=bsky

This gets to a crucial point: big AI models must be nationalized, not only to control their impact and uses, but also because they appropriated our collective knowledge.

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If taxpayers bail out the AI industry when its bubble bursts, as seems increasingly likely, we shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of the 2008 crisis. A public bailout should mean nationalizing AI.

Columbus is doing participatory budgeting for the first time, on Common, the platform I head up design for at One Project. Residents now get to decide where $9M of the city budget goes. So proud of the team www.dispatch.com/story/news/s... common.oneproject.org/en/columbus

Columbus Council gives residents a way to pick capital budget projects

Columbus residents can now submit ideas for how the city can spend a portion of their budget. Here's how.

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fresh audio product: • Aaron Benanav on what a future socialist society might look like • Amy Laura Hall, author of Erecting the Pulpit, on muscular Christianity www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

✨MotL 91 is live!!!✨ In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 *Transcript forthcoming ...

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

Impressive of NLR to publish 23-page article on the current status of neoliberalism (alive or dead?) without sparing one sentence on the overwhelmingly dominant tech sector which JUST might be having effects on global legal ordering projects.

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

A League of Socialist Cities: David Harvey interviewed by Richard Hames for @novaramedia.com's new show, Do Your Own Research. novaramedia.com/2026/05/09/w...

What the World’s Most Famous Marxist Thinks of Zohran Mamdani

Is he secretly following his ideas?

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Design in the GDR

Talking to one of my heroes Hito Steyerl about contemporary art and the effort of the US empire to rule through difference. carrier-bag.net/video/world-...

LIKELIKE, my arcade/gallery for indie games is reopening for a new season. The first show is: Carnage Infernational A world-class exhibition of games devoted to capitalist hellscapes and labor dystopias. Friday May 1st, 2026. 7-11PM. Pittsburgh, PA likelike.org/2026/04/27/c...

Whoop, whoop! 11 Theses on Planning by @solveigdegen.bsky.social @rabeaber.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social ! Fantastic! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/intervent...

11 Theses On Planning - KTB

1. Planning for Future The prohibition on thinking concretely about the future has expired. An ecological and democratic concept of planning beyond capitalism is now necessary for planetary survival. ...

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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Rodrigo Nunes (University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social) about ecologies of organization, the role of political parties, power, and democratic transformation. Link to the full episode: buff.ly/14N8Dms #FutureHistories#Podcast

"Palantir as an entity is, in a sense, an insurgent world that is making itself real: a data doppelganger of reality who murders and replaces its double." More --> open.substack.com/pub/maxhaive...

Communist geographer Phil A. Neel joins Party Girls Pod ( @jamiepeck666.bsky.social ) to discuss his upcoming article on revolutionary organizing in the forthcoming issue of Heatwave and his recently published ‘Theory of the Party’ at @illwill.bsky.social.

Happy #TaxDay. Tax the rich.

Please Share and Support our Comrade Kali Akuno @coopjax.bsky.social @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social @democracyatwork.bsky.social: chuffed.org/project/1771...

Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal

Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...

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@subvert.fm published the most comprehensive and well-considered AI policy for a music platform. It was written by 68 artists. If you think that artists aren't capable of self-governance, it's your paternalism and lack of imagination that we are fighting against

NEW: @annpettifor.bsky.social reviews The Story of Capital by @davidharvey.org @versobooks.bsky.social, an authoritative and essential reading of Marx's Capital for our age of spiralling accumulation and finance capital.

David Harvey on Marx in the age of finance capital - LSE Review of Books

Ann Pettifor reviews The Story of Capital by David Harvey which re-engages with Marx’s Capital and the rise of finance capital above industrial capitalism today

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My 5yo daughter Evie asked what my Fortune piece is about. "We need to change what AI companies get money for. And have that decided by everyone. Because currently, companies can get money for hurting the world." Her: “Wait, we give people money for hurting the world? We should do the opposite.”

I helped build Facebook and saw it go wrong. AI is headed the same way | Fortune

I also co-founded Asana and One Project, and we have to move away from the White House's self-regulation framework for AI.

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As a long-time listener of Future Histories, it was great to talk about and revisit my work on economic planning and the idea of 'metabolic municipalism' with Jan Groos, focusing on two articles (see images). Check out all the great episodes here! futurehistories-international.com

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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Yousaf Nishat-Botero (@yousafnb.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social) about ecologies of planning and the idea of metabolic municipalism. Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast

66% of Americans support citizen panels helping set AI rules. Trump voters, Biden voters, swing voters: nearly identical numbers. When was the last time that happened? Here’s how that would work in practice: oneproject.org/how-to-make-... @beyer.house.gov @eryk.bsky.social

How to Make AI Serve the Public - One Project

Rethinking AI power: why the public must govern the systems shaping our lives.

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I helped build Facebook. I watched it become a machine for addicting people. Because addiction was more profitable. Now the same logic is driving AI. I wrote about what we do about it. 🧵

Please share this primer on open protocols with your favorite government officials. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-governme...

A Government Guide to Open Protocols

Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both software costs and geopolitical exposure

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I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

Reading Capital

Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

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New Podcast Episode: In part 1 of this two-part series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher John O’Neill about the socialist calculation debate and its legacy. Listen to it here or on your usual podcast app: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

PODCAST 15.1 — The Grounds of Planning I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate - KTB

What does it mean to plan an economy rationally—and who gets to decide what counts as rational? In part one of this series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher...

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Today, February 24th, is publication day for my latest book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by @versobooks.bsky.social youtu.be/_Y7YLX-ASGY?...

THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

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