Jonathan Hursh

Intensely curious about the future of cities and the planetary era. Focused on emergent cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Co-building Utopia.

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@ruima I wish they had a native Mac app with popup companion window.

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@bnj @variantui This is a breakthrough, thanks! Any easy way to export to Readymag?

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@conductr_ @theJayAlto 7 of the 7 articles written by western men. The world is so much bigger than western men.

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@jasonhickel We need a new Planetary Party° for the seventh generation – https://t.co/ZfETsSjELd.

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@suekhim @akothari Agree! We're launching https://t.co/rWjZK8dKYH, a new planetary institution to help members focus on 100 Year Projects. DM?

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@RnaudBertrand Look who's in the background.

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"Breakneck begins with a bike ride I took from Guiyang to Chongqing in 2021. China’s fourth-poorest province, I was delighted to find, has much better infrastructure than California or New York, both wealthier by orders of magnitude."

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The thoughts beyond the thought – the replies – is what is most valuable about X/Twitter.

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@NWischoff Create and print an Experience Passport with experiences you’d like to expose them to and many blank pages for their own ideas as they grow older. Customize a stamp. DM if you want a template!

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@xanderburgess Earthbuild — a members club for Gens XYZ building the planetary era for the Majority World. https://t.co/7ex5zvm9BL

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@ashleymayer @helen_min @sallyshin @macbohannon @greatchatpod Fantastic!

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@jenzhuscott This could be used for daily battery replacements as well.

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This will transform the Majority World.

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The Western ruling class considers China's technological development to be a threat because it undermines a core tenet of the imperial arrangement.

Here's how it works. The states and firms of the imperial core actively seek to prevent sovereign technological development in the global South, while establishing monopoly control over necessary technologies (capital goods, medicines, computers, etc, etc).

This forces the South into a position of dependency, such that they are compelled to export large quantities of (cheapened) industrial and agricultural goods to the core in order to pay for necessary imports.

The result is a massive net flow of material wealth from periphery to core that sustains high levels of material consumption in places like the US and Europe, overwhelmingly to the benefit of their ruling classes. And the core's technology firms enjoy monopoly profits.

But China's technological development is beginning to break Western monopolies, and may give developing countries alternative suppliers for necessary goods at more affordable prices. This poses a fundamental challenge to the imperial arrangement, and the net flow of goods - and profits - that the core enjoys.

The core states will not let this happen easily. All the US saber-rattling against China's development is *not* because China poses a military threat to the territorial United States (it does not), but because it poses a threat to imperial capital.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 The Ministry for the Future

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Shantaram

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@esthercrawford Can you describe what culture Meta is attempting to shift to?

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@RnaudBertrand Dropped your post in Notebook LLM to generate a podcast. It changed my initial reaction to your article. You've created an interesting (and provocative) scaffolding in how to think about China's governance.

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@patrickc No reads from the Majority World? So much more human history than just the West.

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@spatiallyjess @SkarredGhost Nice! We‘re working with megacities in the Global South. Could we chat? I’m here in San Francisco. DM open.

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@jenzhuscott Emergence.