Iqra 017

On loneliness, nihilist realism, Nietzsche, Solarpunk and Cybernetic Capitalism

• The new cold war intensifies as competition between rival splinternets boils over into the VPN market between GAE and the CCP

• A seismic shift in US Health Policy

• On the semiconductor century

• Fascinating new paper on the use of LLMs in sifting through scientific research - it does not work

• Cybernetic Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

• In defence of Solarpunk

• The Philosophy of Cyberpunk

• On Information

• Nice review essay of Felsch’s new work on Nietzsche

• Was DOGE just a cyberattack against the infrastructure of American Empire?

• The Hard Work of Combatting Loneliness

• On Ishida’s art work on nihilist realism in Japan