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oh. none of this is good. in the short to medium run we are all dead.

it’s genuinely tragic what the catastrofuckery of uk university funding did to the OU, the institution’s failure to memorialise what people like Stuart Hall and Doreen Massey did there and why they stayed so long is just one more casualty

‘we are a little bit in this environment today; the music plays, and people are still dancing…The music will stop playing at a moment in time. But the timing is so difficult to predict, so that’s why diversification is more than ever necessary.’ Chanelling citigroup’s Chuck Prince in July 2007

And if it’s not germane (which it is) it’s still fascinating and untold. I mean if I see one more take that compares the AI bubble to railways or dot com I may fall into a coma. There is so so much else to say about the historical paths to where we are now.

What if I was to call it ‘The Big Shed Economy: the history of hyperscale finance’ eh? On account of the fact that the long history of insurance financing retail market encounters is (probably) germane to what’s happening now in AI financification.