Martin Danyluk

Assistant professor @GPEconcordia. Baker of mediocre bread. I study cities, infrastructure, housing, supply chains, inequality. He/him.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Nobel Prize economist Daron Acemoglu has been doing a series of daily posts about AI. I've found them very useful in thinking about the issues. Worth reading and following, I think.

[Hamzé Attar @hamzattar]

The social engineering of the Gaza Strip:
1- Pink, the rich
2- Yellow, the workforce
3- White, normalising Israeli occupation
4- No border with Egypt, all through Israel; the Rafah crossing has disappeared
5- Shifting balance from Gaza City to Khan Younis and Rafah, despite being less populated than Gaza City
Gaza City: ~600,000
Khan Yunis: ~203,000
Rafah: ~172,000
6- Border industrial hubs mean relying on the Israeli supply chain, electricity; it can be cut off whenever Israel wants
7- Rafah and Khan Younis are being engineered as attractive cities to move Palestinians away from Gaza City towards the south, emptying the north, and reconstructing the social fabric.
8- The new port was moved to Rafah to be adjacent to the Israeli-occupied area; it's an Israeli-controlled port.
9- Next to the port, a Marina, for the rich, pay attention to the peers.
10- 3 Islands for the rich investors or rulers to live away from the population

[hussan @hussansk]

Adding up all the war funding - Budget 2025 pours ~$89 billion into military, weapons, NATO deployments & border militarization - almost the size of Manitoba's entire GDP.

MOST OF THIS MONEY - OUR MONEY - WILL GO TO ARMS MANUFACTURERS.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Trump's budget spends $25 billion on a fantasy missile shield — likely contracted out to Musk/SpaceX — and cuts $27 billion in housing assistance.

Why are you hearing this from me and not the Democratic Party

[Laura Palmer Raids @Marxicology]

“National Socialist Germany exhibits a peculiar ‘primacy of politics’ in which ideological goals determine the performance of the economic sphere so radically that the whole system cuts loose from any rationality of self-reproduction.”

[Kevin Skerrett @KevinSkerrett]

In @RayburnBev’s recent post about Poilievre’s views on pensions she points out that he favours a policy of destroying the public system and replacing it with an individual private investment accounts system - something like the Reform Party’s regressive “super-RRSP proposal in the 1990s.

This was also one of the Augusto Pinochet’s ultra-neoliberal policies after the 1973 coup in Chile. The terrible pension system he implemented was a gift to the country’s investment fund industry, which has taken enormous profits from its mandatory contributions. Pension benefits paid out by that failed system are extremely low.

Today there is a mass #NoMasAFP movement in Chile demanding restoration of a decent and secure public pension system - something like Canada’s CPP and OAS.

We should not let Poilievre anywhere near our pension system

#cdnpoli

[Nathan FOIA Tankus @NathanTankus]

In preview of my Monday morning piece, I'm going to say a little bit about why this is so concerning. This is not some "economy" thing.Its first & foremost the possibility that our legal order is modified so the law of the land is defined by DOGE plumbing the guts of the Treasury

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharma to roads to (of course) rockets, and make the rich pay their taxes.

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[James Schneider @schneiderhome]

Gulp

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

For those hoping that the LA fires will lead to a climate reckoning, I have bad news. There's no robust link between climate disasters and low-carbon policymaking. *Weather can't do the work of politics.*

If anything, tendency is toward a defensive "fortress of solitude."

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[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Haaretz now confirms what we've been warning about for months:

Israel is planning to cram Palestinians in northern Gaza into flimsy tents in CONCENTRATION CAMPS run by the IDF

In Southern Gaza, Israel will put CRIMINAL GANGS in charge

Our report: https://t.co/6Didbc3Xxp

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨As we show here, Israel has been establishing the "Five Fingers" strategy to turn Gaza into smaller disconnected uninhabitable concentration camps.

The IDF's "buffer zones" (fully wiped out) take up more than a third of Gaza's entire area.

Read: https://t.co/6Didbc3Xxp

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Winning an election is easier than it looks: all you have to do is convince a bunch of different groups that you will use power to achieve their desires.

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[Martin Danyluk @martindanyluk]

@BernardsNick None of this is an attack on your OP! Just prompted me to work through some ideas out loud. Looking forward to reading the new book

[Martin Danyluk @martindanyluk]

@BernardsNick Totally—monopoly power, uneven development, localized and generalized crises, etc. Still, by any reasonable measure, the aggregate long-run tendency is growth. I don’t like attempts to impute motives to systems, but maybe it’s useful to distinguish motives from tendencies

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

We've finally arrived at the ultimate contradiction of the US's "rules-based order": where the "rule" now is that you're forbidden to follow the rules.

[Dr Amanda Moehring @FlyBehaviour]

Sexual selection at work.

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

The owners want their tax cuts but they’re too embarrassed to endorse Trump.