https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/10/you_want_to_be_don_draper_you.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
The Sopranos
The Godfather Series
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson
TFW No GF
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3322830/Dobbin_StrengthWeakState.pdf?sequence=2
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism by Toure Reed
Antiracism: a neoliberal alternative to a left by Adolph Reed https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-017-9476-3
The New Class War by Michael Lind
The Big Short
The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath by Giorgio Agamben
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han
]]>“The Politics of Electricity Restructuring across the American States: Power Failure and Policy Failure” by Phillip J. Ardoin, Dennis Grady (2006): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0160323X0603800304?journalCode=slgb
“Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector” by Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal (2021) https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=59929
TRADITIONALLY REGULATED VS. COMPETITIVE WHOLESALEMARKETS
Wholesale Electricity Markets And Regional Transmission Organizations
Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin
Class Struggle and the New Deal by Rhonda F. Levine
Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal by Leuchtenberg
Inventing the American Way by Wendy Wall
ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE LEISURE CLASS by William Tucker http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=449438
]]>Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger
Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips
Scales and Scope by Alfred P Chandler Jr
]]>https://soundcloud.com/user-303870465/ep-014-rip-indian-point-feat-duncan-bryer
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/for-rtos-isos-dont-call-it-a-market-props-to-ll-cool-j/541895/
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/no-free-market-electricity-can-ever/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-energy-land-use-economy/
https://www.thebellows.org/we-need-a-nuclear-new-deal-not-a-green-new-deal/
https://anchor.fm/chris15401/episodes/The-Russian-Atom-feat--Mark-Nelson-ev8aec
]]>https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bessemer-alabama-amazon-union/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/technology/amazon-workers-against-union.html
https://www.ft.com/content/39091187-ce77-4bc5-8903-441d5fa7a5d4?shareType=nongift
https://www.ft.com/content/ee272395-2ea7-4175-bb19-996111f5a499
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0971721820903006
Deschooling Society by Ivan Ilich
The Politics by Aristotle
Haven in a Heartless World by Christopher Lasch
Villains of Verona video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUOq-x5gh5M
The Aesthetic Education of Man by Schiller
From the Devotions by Carl Phillips
Good Entertainment by Byung-Chul Han
https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/all-the-worlds-a-larp
Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and Psychoanalytic Theory by C Fred Alford
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Nietzsche
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent
Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love by Marsilio Ficino
Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk
https://poets.org/poem/archaic-torso-apollo
On the Waterfront
Manchester by the Sea
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
]]>The Nomos of the Earth by Carl Schmitt
Political Theology by Carl Schmitt
"On the Right to Have Rights" by Hannah Arendt
Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy by Bryan van Norden
Korea's Day in the Sun by Bruce Cumings
The Nicomacchean Ethics by Aristotle
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
]]>https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tfw-no-gf-incel-culture-sxsw-992943/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/excerpt-122-tfw-no-gf/id1229278776?i=1000474315097
The Republic by Plato
Post Colonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital by Vivek Chibber
https://outsidertheory.com/metamodernism-trump-era-liberal-culture/
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Birds, The Bees, and White Supremacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxpkq5P9O-s
Topics to Discuss
Solar Winds Campaign
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/russian-hacking-government.html
Campaign needs to be broken into three segments
Compromise of software supply chain, Solar Winds organization, Orion code
Sunspot malware (Source: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-analysis/):
“It was likely built on 2020-02-20 11:40:02, according to the build timestamp found in the binary, which is consistent with the currently assessed StellarParticle supply chain attack timeline.”
“StellarParticle operators maintained the persistence of SUNSPOT by creating a scheduled task set to execute when the host boots.”
“The malware then grants itself debugging privileges by modifying its security token to add SeDebugPrivilege. This step is a prerequisite for the remainder of SUNSPOT’s execution, which involves reading other processes’ memory.”
“...the malware checks for the presence of a second mutex...This mutex was likely intended to be used by StellarParticle operators to discreetly stop the malware, instead of using a riskier method such as killing the process. Stopping SUNSPOT in the middle of its operation could result in unfinished tampering of the Orion source code, and lead to Orion build errors that SolarWinds developers would investigate, revealing the adversary’s presence…”
“When SUNSPOT finds the Orion solution file path in a running MsBuild.exe process, it replaces a source code file in the solution directory, with a malicious variant to inject SUNBURST while Orion is being built.”
“SUNSPOT appends an entry in the log file with the date and time of the backdoor attempt and waits for the MsBuild.exe process to exit before restoring the original source code and deleting the temporary InventoryManager.bk file. If the Orion solution build is successful, it is backdoored with SUNBURST.”
TTPs
Persistence using scheduled tasks, triggered at boot time
Use of AES128-CBC to protect the targeted source code files and the backdoored source code file in the binary
Use of RC4 encryption with a hard-coded key to protect the log file entries
Log entries from different executions of the malware that are separated with a hard-coded value 32 78 A5 E7 1A 79 91 AC
Log file creation in the system temp directory C:\Windows\Temp\vmware-vmdmp.log masquerading as a legitimate VMWare log file
Detection of the targeted Visual Studio solution build by reading the virtual memory of MsBuild.exe processes, looking for the targeted solution filename
Access to the remote process arguments made via the remote process’s PEB structure
Replacement of source code files during the build process, before compilation, by replacing file content with another version containing SUNBURST
Insertion of the backdoor code within #pragma statements disabling and restoring warnings, to prevent the backdoor code lines from appearing in build logs
Check of the MD5 hashes of the original source code and of the backdoored source code to ensure the tampering will not cause build errors
Attempt to open a non-existing mutex to detect when the malware operators want the backdoor to stop execution and safely exit
Infection of thousands of Solar Winds customers by malware
Subsequent APT compromises of select organizations
Killchain
‘According to FireEye, the hackers gained “access to victims via trojanized updates to SolarWinds’ Orion IT monitoring and management software”. Basically, a software update was exploited to install the ‘Sunburst’ malware into Orion, which was then installed by more than 17,000 customers.’
‘Once installed, the malware gave a backdoor entry to the hackers to the systems and networks of SolarWinds’ customers. More importantly, the malware was also able to thwart tools such as anti-virus that could detect it.’
Supply-chain compromises
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693064.pdf
Trojan Malware
Resilience, weak points
“Those unable to update are told to isolate “SolarWinds servers” and it should “include blocking all Internet egress from SolarWinds servers”.:
Cyber-corporate infrastructure, “too big to fail vs. too interwoven to fail”?
“In one previously unreported issue, multiple criminals have offered to sell access to SolarWinds’ computers through underground forums, according to two researchers who separately had access to those forums.”
“By consolidating identity and access natively in the cloud, tenants relieve themselves from the burden of managing the federation of authentication and the on-premises service, and gain more of the protections that the cloud provider has in place, including system hardening, configuration and monitoring.”
Common practice is for enterprises to move infrastructure into “the cloud” to effectively outsource many functions, including cybersecurity and security configuration.
The issues of locality and territoriality
“The ability of actors to conduct this attack hinges on the initial compromise of customer on-premises systems. Without administrative access to the on-premises identity provider, actors would not be able to generate tokens for use in the cloud. Follow NSA guidance on locking down endpoint systems, beginning with keeping systems patched and software updated [20].”
A common defense measure is to key in on IP addresses in other countries, or from suspiciously distant locales
UNC2452 used VPNs to simulate appropriate login locations and avoid detection.
Multiple Vectors
In our investigations and through collaboration with our industry peers, we have confirmed several additional compromise techniques leveraged by the actor, including password spraying, spearphishing, use of webshell, through a web server, and delegated credentials.”
VMWare Command injection vulnerability
MFA bypass
‘“MFA threat modeling generally doesn’t include a complete system compromise of an OWA server,” Ars’ Dan Goodin wrote. “The level of access the hacker achieved was enough to neuter just about any defense.”’
https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/12/14/dark-halo-leverages-solarwinds-compromise-to-breach-organizations/
SAML compromise
“Note that these TTPs (in and of themselves) do not constitute vulnerabilities in the design principles of federated identity management, the SAML protocol, or on-premises and cloud identity services. The security of identity federation in any cloud environment directly depends on trust in the on-premises components that perform authentication, assign privileges, and sign SAML tokens. If any of these components is compromised, then the trust in authentication tokens from the components is misplaced and can be abused for unauthorized access.”
State of Cybersecurity sector in the US
Impact of SolarWinds hack
“Scope and Impact: It is estimated that 18,000+ organizations that downloaded the trojaned software from SolarWinds were potentially impacted by this event. It is reasonable to assume that enterprises and government organizations will be dealing with the fallout from this for several months, and those who do not have the staff or resources to adequately respond to this type of event may languish in a state of unknown certainty indefinitely.”
Lessons to be drawn?
In many ways, the threat actor behind this campaign bypassed the most common policies and best practices
Two-factor authentication
Code signing
Hybrid network infrastructure, some on-premise some in the cloud
Third-party vendors supplying multiple parts of the network
Large, common enterprise business solutions, such as Office 365
Some cybersecurity breaches are the result of policies (or lack thereof) that can be reformed. In this case, reliance on these kinds of protections are likely to increase in the future
Cybersecurity vendors
Links to industrial and infrastructure security
What the US considers “Critical cyber infrastructure”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/russia-cyberattacks.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html
Software and Information Technology supply chain
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1efo96fPx5WkOxTiFFY1r5y3lFqdit00C/view
https://cve.mitre.org/
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-wanderer/
The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch
Rick Roderick on Kant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JW4X6QpPk
The Politics by Aristotle
The Republic by Plato (Bloom translation)
The Political Writings by Kant
Critique of Judgment by Kant
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
]]>https://www.ft.com/content/0e746280-e72c-4087-9c0d-df2a7af82b77
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/FERC-to-re-look-at-grid-preparedness-after-termina
https://www.meredithangwin.com/reliable-electricity-in-winter-ferc-are-you-listening/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0uPxWyEEYylWF1NF6xJq58?si=4SfAbxl3RZan91WbHJ3j1w
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5G2ZY1lzeg5T2EC28XTrza?si=TWrzPsHWReOTNOToA8pAuw
Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin
]]>Bayesian view on trial statistics:
Jacob Stegenga (2018) Medical Nihilism
https://b-ok.cc/book/3707310/2d3987
NHLBI trial null effects:
Kaplan & Irvin (2015) Likelihood of Null Effects of Large NHLBI Clinical Trials Has Increased over Time
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132382
Bayesian low incidence rate uncertainty:
Yasin Memari (2021) Low incidence rate of COVID-19 undermines confidence inestimation of the vaccine efficacy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.10005.pdf
E484K variant mutation effects on vaccine efficacy:Jacqui Wise (2021) Covid-19: The E484K mutation and the risks it poses
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n359
Israeli one-dose vaccine data:
Elisabeth Mahase (2021) Covid-19: Reports from Israel suggest one dose of Pfizer vaccine could be less effective than expected
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n217
Efficacy of natural infection in preventing reinfection:
Hall et al. (2021) Do antibody positive healthcare workers have lower SARS-CoV-2 infection rates than antibody negative healthcare workers?
http://medrxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/2021.01.13.21249642
Industry prior belief on mRNA effect of 4-10x natural response:
Charles Schmidt (2021) New COVID Vaccines Need Absurd Amounts of Material and Labor
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-covid-vaccines-need-absurd-amounts-of-material-and-labor1/
Earlier investigation of mRNA vax production:
Jonas Neubert (2021) Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines
https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-supply-chain-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-covid-19-vaccines/
Speculation re: mRNA vax formulation bottlenecks:
Derek Lowe (2021) Opinion: A straightforward explanation why more COVID-19 vaccines can’t be produced with help from ‘dozens’ of companies
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lets-stick-to-facts-about-covid-19-vaccines-there-arent-dozens-of-drug-companies-who-can-step-in-to-produce-more-11612363386
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Medicial Nihilism by Stegenga
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
Labratory Life by Bruno Latour
]]>Podcast notes
-Early on (before the clap) I say that Citadel owns a stake in Robinhood. Citadel does NOT own a large stake in Robinhood. I was under this impression because I had recently read a Reddit post claiming so. As always, not everything we read on the internet is true (more on this falsehood and how it propagated here: https://www.ibtimes.sg/citadel-owns-robinhood-theory-claims-capital-firm-halted-trading-platform-it-owns-hedge-fund-55226). Citadel did bailout Melvin Capital. Most importantly, Citadel is Robinhood’s primary market maker; their primary source of shares for clients/users. More on the relationship between citadel and Robinhood here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-31/the-citadel-link-what-ken-griffin-has-to-do-with-gamestop
-when defining hedge funds, I casually say that one can invest in a hedge fund through a retirement account. This is false. Hedge funds are not typically available to small investors through retirement accounts, but rather are marketed exclusively to a relatively small group of large investors. John was very correct to emphasize the exclusive “boutique” nature of hedge funds. Other aspects of hedge funds worth mentioning are that they usually traded very liquid assets.
-I say that u/DeepFuckingValue worked as a financial advisor. This is at least imprecise. u/DeepFuckingValue did not work as a financial advisor during his initial investment in GME, but did work as a “financial well-being coach”.
-I described margin calls and clearing house correctly, but did incorrectly say at some point that one can meet margin requirements by buying stock. To cover margin, one need not buy back shares. One can simply put money in one’s brokerage account in order to cover margin. One buys back shares and returns them to the lender only when one closes out the short position entirely.
-61:22. I say that trades sometimes settle two or three days after they are made. This is less precise than it should have been. Trades settle with clearing houses two days after trades are executed, this is commonly called t+2 settlement. Robinhood’s CEO has talked about having the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) move to real-time settlement, and industry changes as well as regulations to that effect have been discussed in the aftermath of GME’s wild ride.
-Another key regulatory point I failed to mention involved transparency of hedge funds. Reporting requirements for hedge funds are notoriously limited. Some funds provide extensive information about their trades and positions, investors, and manager compensation, but they are not legally required to and many keep these things secret. Some commentators have discussed new regulations that would require such disclosures. This podcast is a good deep dive on the regulatory questions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-finreg-pod/id1483871507?i=1000508471065
-At certain points throughout the pod, I incorrectly characterize “payment for order flow”. You and John describe payment for order flow correctly, I sometimes do not. Payment for order flow is the practice where market makers pay brokers to process their trades in order to receive real time order data of the broker’s clients. Market makers can use this data to enhance their own trading strategies and risk management. You’re both right that all the typical privacy and surveillance-capitalism concerns apply, but payment for order flow has enabled brokers to eliminate commissions and make it easier for retail investors to trade.
-at the end I say something like, “I find it hard to look at all these events and say they mean that there is something deep and fundamentally broken about the system.” I wish I had clarified this. There is currently a distressing decoupling between stock market prices and real economic activity, and the GameStop saga is one example of that, but I see it as just a symptom. Numerous trends far upstream of the particulars of the GameStop story do concern me. These include unprecedented levels and pace of central bank money creation and asset purchases, especially purchases of corporate bonds and other non-government securities (btw, those purchases managed by Blackrock), along with government stimulus. Countless financial journalists have been sounding the alarm that government policies have encouraged an “everything bubble”, and if there’s something to be deeply concerned about in the GameStop story, it’s the possibility that the hysteria and irrational exuberance surrounding WallStreetBets are a symptom of a broader bubble.
-another point that I should have made was that many other online trading platforms and brokers suspended trading for GME AMC and other stocks discussed on WSB. These included WeBull, Cash App, and TD Ameritrade. The liquidity problem affecting clearing houses and brokers was not isolated to Robinhood, though most of the GME retail trading frenzy seems to have been done by Robinhood users, along with large investors not on Robinhood.
Here are some of those articles:
On relevant SEC regulations:
https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4402500-because-of-gamestop-trading-investors-need-to-fully-understand-sec-regulations
On Central bank monetary policy:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-05/ultra-low-interest-rates-here-to-stay-2021-central-bank-guide
Margin debt (money borrowed to pay for stock purchases) has risen dramatically:
https://www.investopedia.com/margin-debt-reaches-new-high-5093761
Matt Levine’s now prophetic article on the short squeeze Reddit situation:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-game-never-stops
A concise take I pretty much totally agree with:
https://www.aier.org/article/whos-to-blame-for-the-rash-of-short-squeezes/
On clearing houses and market infrastructure:
https://www.teamblind.com/post/Full-explanation-of-the-GME-RH-and-Citadel-debacle-QBSUbgz7
Specifically about the DTCC:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dtcc.asp
What’s an option?:
https://www.optionseducation.org/optionsoverview/what-is-an-option
What’s short selling?:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.as
https://americancompass.org/the-commons/gamestop-intentionally-dying/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/robinhood-ban-gamestop-share-price-explained.html
https://prospect.org/power/what-weve-learned-from-the-robinhood-affair/
https://twitter.com/endtwist/status/1354547622133051393
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-hedge-fund-made-700-million-on-gamestop-11612390687
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/roaring-kitty-gamestop.html
]]>TFW No GF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhYYMPDQ9ms
"Lottery of Babylon" by Jorge Luis Borges
Best take on Kurt Cobain in existence from Chris Ott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5VSufswMj0
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Rick Roderick lectures: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
]]>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.13.21249642v1
CFR Report on COVID response: https://www.cfr.org/report/pandemic-preparedness-lessons-COVID-19/findings/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html
https://time.com/5933825/biden-new-vaccine-plan/
Sanofi Pasteur to produce Pfizer vax:
Health Canada’s pandemic surveillance scripts: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid19-pandemic-early-warning-1.5537925
Organizational Narcissism: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1093&=&context=managementfacpub
Gabor Mate on stressed parenting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGmADfU5HGU
]]>Emerson and German Philosophy
René Wellek
The New England Quarterly
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Mar., 1943), pp. 41-62 (22 pages)
East-West Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century America: Emerson and Hinduism
Russell B. Goodman
Journal of the History of Ideas
Vol. 51, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1990), pp. 625-645 (21 pages)
"The American Scholar" by Emerson
"Literary Nationalism," "American Literary Independence," "National Literature and Imitation," and "Magazine Literature in America" by Poe
Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Chinese Commentaries ed. Bryan W. Van Norden
In the Swarm by Byung-Chul Han
https://pando.com/2015/03/17/slaughter-on-eighth-avenue-a-st-patricks-day-commemoration/
]]>Facebook is a Doomsday Machine by Adrienne LaFrance
We're in the Business of Programming People's Lives by Andrew Smith
]]>Code Orange's Under the Skin
Dana White discussing how the UFC survived covid.
Forrest Griffin v Stephan Bonnar
Chris Ott's discussing Other Music.
]]>Rebekah Jones: a data scientist takes on the Florida governor
Supply Chain Challenges for Single-Use Systems
Some citations from Canada Mike:
classic bioprocesses: https://www.amazon.ca/Biotechnology-Industrial-Microbiology-Wulf-Crueger/dp/087893135X
single use processes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167779912001692
single use systems in COVID development platforms: https://bioprocessintl.com/bioprocess-insider/upstream-downstream-processing/novel-rd-approaches-and-the-need-for-flexibility-make-single-use-key-in-tackling-covid-19/
]]>Public Oppinion by Walter Lippman
What Is Democracy? (2018, dir. Astra Taylor)
The Principles of Representative Government by Bernard Manin
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Cass Sunstein and Riachard T. Thaler
Consumer’s Republic by Lizabeth Cohen
Underworld by Don Delillo
The New Deal: A Global History by Kiran Klaus Patel
Democracy in Exile: Hans Spier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual by Daniel Bessner
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Carl Schmitt
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
Political Theology by Carl Schmitt
Politics and Vision by Sheldon Wolin
]]>American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring by William Giraldi
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Odyssey by Homer (Lattimore translation)
Sam Shepard's "True West" - 1984 (John Malkovich and Gary Sinise)
]]>"The kids of Jesus Camp, 10 years later: 'Was it child abuse? Yes and no'" by Josiah Hesse
After Virtue by Alisdair MacIntyre
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in the Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
"Joe Biden is crowdfunding his own presidential transition" by Rafi Schwarts
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Songtag
"Smoke Break" by Emmet Penney
]]>The Economic Foundations of Industrial Policy by Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher
How Trump Got His Right-Wing New Deal Victory by Fred Stafford
American Factory dir. Steven Bognar and Julia Reichat (2019)
]]>"The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Poe by Edgard Allan Poe
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
The Politics by Aristotle
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Nietzsche
The Omni-Americans by Albert Murray
The Age of Entitlment: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
]]>The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in the Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
"The Non-Voter" by Chris Arnade
"Lawyers Charged With Seven Felonies In Molotov Cocktail Attack Out On Bail" by Diane Temple-Raston
"Jake Paul: The Only Person Worse Than His Brother Logan Paul" by D'Angelo Wallace
"The Real Class War" by Julius Krein
"FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ENGAGED IN UNPRECEDENTED PUSH TO JAIL PROTESTERS BEFORE TRIAL" by Aaron Cantu
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
Correction: The Charlie Rose interview with Lord Goldsmith and Laura Tyson was about GATT not NAFTA. It's available here.
]]>Protagoras by Plato
Bullfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bullfinch
Through the Jade Gate to Rome by John E. Hill
]]>Morals of the Market by Jessica White
“Adam Smith’s Arthritis” Jennifer M. Miller https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4798644/user-clip-adam-smiths-arthritis
A Consumer’s Republic by Lizabeth Cohen
Thinking Through the Cold War by Jardini
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left by Landon Stores
Towards Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism
The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu
Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic by Max Weber
Arif Dirlik, "Confucius on the Borderlands: Global Capitalism and the Reinvention of Confucianism,"
The Commission on the Year 2000 by Daniel Bell et al.
The Affluent Society by JK Galbraith
The New Industrial State by JK Galbraith
All in the Family by Robert Self
Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement by Justin Vaïsse,
The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order by David Ekbladh
]]>The Republic by Plato
The Politics by Aristotle
After Virtue by Alisdair McIntyre
Citizens to Lords by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy in America by Tocqueville
Undoing the Demos by Wendy Brown
The Eclipse of the Demos by Kyong-Min Son
]]>"Lectureporn: The Vulgar Art of Liberal Narcissism" by Emmet Penney
Thinking Through the Cold War by David Jardini
Democracy in Exile: Hans Spier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual by Daniel Bessner
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Sauls
The Work of Nations by Robert Reich
Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism by Toure F. Reed
]]>The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
"The Japanese End: Japan in Alexandre Kojeve's End of History" by Aingeru Aroz
Bel Geddes info from Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman
Osho doc: Wild Wild Country (Netflix)
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
"Publicly traded firms paid dividends, bought their own stock after receiving PPP loans to pay employees" by Aaron Gregg
"How the American Worker Got Fleeced" by Josh Eidolson
This is Paris: Paris Hilton Documentary
"WeWork: How the Ultimate Unicorn Lost Its Billions" by Eric Platt and Andrew Edge-Cliff Johnson
"The WeWork Con" by Amber A'Lee Frost
"A bitter end for Juicero as start-up runs out of juice" by Tim Bradshaw
"Jessica Silverman’s Secret to 10 Years of Success as a Gallerist? Hustle Harder" by Anne Louie Sussman
Entrepreneurbrain Schema:
Self/Brand Collapse - The foundation
Chosen Family - The foundation
Hustle-harderism - Jessica Silverman
Ahab Syndrome - Elizabeth Holmes
Osho Syndrome - Adam Neumann
Unnovation - Matchabros, Alfred Coffee, Juicero
"Blockchain Imperialism in the Pacific" by Olivier Jutel
The Cultural Logic of Computation by David Golumbia
From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
TechGnosis by Erik David
Blog Theory by Jodie Dean
"Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze
Anglo American Imperialism in the Pacific ed. by Michelle Keown et al.
Story on the dam in the Congo from Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger
Story on the American soldier given radiation treatment from Studs Terkel’s The Good War
The Democratic Paradox by Chantal Mouffe
Hegemont and Socialist Strategy by Chantal Mouffe and Ernestno Laclau
Rick Roderick's lecture on Habermas
]]>"We are the music supervisors" by Shallow Rewards
"The Hiding" by Shallow Rewards
"Genrecore: The Smooth Hell at the End of Music" by Emmet
"The Insane Rise and Fall of Mypsace" by PunkRockMBA
[Reverse Engineered TikTok Algorithm](reddit.com/r/savedyouaclick/comments/hh9q19/guy_who_reverseengineered_tiktok_reveals_the/)
Surveillence Valley by Yasha Levine
"tiktok challenges are back (and more illegal than ever)" by d'angelo wallace
"Alice In Chains - Would? (REACTION!!!)" by Lost in Vegas
Todd in the Shadows (I can't remember which video I pulled from, but here's his account)
Some of the bands we mention:
Humeysha https://www.patreon.com/humeysha
Ratboys https://www.patreon.com/bst
Cytotoxin https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nuklearth
Fange https://fange.bandcamp.com/album/pudeur
Left Behind https://leftbehind304.bandcamp.com/
Slaughterlord https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/track/slaughter-lord
Shellshock'd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdkNjykGbgY&list=PL1C11438888EBC541&index=2
"Hustle Hard" by Ace Hood
]]>"Who Lost Lucent: The Decline of America's Telecom Equipment Industry" by Robert D. Atkinson
Other Podcasts:
"Behind the News: Christian Parenti" hosted by Doug Henwood
"/145/The End of Conservatism ft. Julius Krein" hosted by Aufhebungabunga
Books we pull from:
_Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism _by Ha-Joon Chang
Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State by Rhonda F. Levine
_Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940 _ by William E. Leuchtenberg
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Videos on Bell Labs that John references:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK6RG47bww&feature=youtu.be
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