Henry Farrell

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Henry Farrell
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Professor of democracy and international affairs. [henryfarrell.net](http://www.henryfarrell.net ) and newsletter at [programmablemutter.com](http://www.programmablemutter.com ). Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). [publishersweekly.com/9781250840554](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554 ). 🌉 [bridged](https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/himself.bsky.social ) from 🦋 [himself.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/himself.bsky.social ), follow nostr:npub1pqr3g2gk3vsnrqk9kwfqqcxc6d5cwjr0hyc0nlzz9py5nf92vd9sn02sck to interact Web site: https://bsky.app/profile/himself.bsky.social Link: http://www.henryfarrell.net Link: http://www.programmablemutter.com Link: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." [www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...](
Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.
 ) [Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by...](
Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.
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"science fictional visions of the earth being devoured by machine intelligences and transformed into paperclips are not nearly weird enough to capture what is happening all around us, right now." [www.programmablemutter.com/p/understand...](
Understanding AI as a social technology
Speed, shoggoths, social science
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[www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...](
Boston Review
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans - Boston Review
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
 ) "Yet the door to Joe’s apartment—which argues with him and refuses to open because he has not paid it the obligatory tip—sounds ominously plausible. Someone, somewhere, is pitching this as a viable business plan to Y Combinator" RE:
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Paul Haine (@paulhaine.bsky.social)
The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this
 [Philip K. Dick and the Fake Hu...](
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans - Boston Review
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
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Eric Schmidt (February) vs Eric Schmidt (August) is the fight of the century. [joking aside, this is a very significant shift] [www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...](
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Drifting Out of Touch With the Rest of America
Science has yet to find a clear path to building intelligence that surpasses that of humans.
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This [@gwbstr.com](
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Graham Webster (@gwbstr.com)
Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net Basics: gwbstr.com Also: #filmphotography
 ) piece is a proper banger - [www.wired.com/story/chips-...](
WIRED
Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?
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WIRED
Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?
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This piece makes me think again that a "Market Liberalism 101 -Here Is Why Institutions and Pluralism Matter Even (and Maybe Especially) If You Consider Yourself Right Wing" Silicon Valley bootcamp, with required readings from Hume, Popper, Gellner etc would be a possibly good thing. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying i...
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