Rats

Dispatches today on different forms of Clauswitzean friction in the contemporary world - and how to deal with it, command-like.

A. Partying with Nick Land.

B. Why do people quote Antonio Gramsci?

C. How the war on drugs affected the Philippines.

D. How Netflix conquered Hollywood.

E. Why Stanley Kubrick’s satire Dr Strangelove is still relevant: (still) no fighting in the War Room.

F. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Gender, Health and Society created by Dr Brittany Charlton.

G. My late Alaskan Malamute dog Tilly did not like rats. She saw one once and was physically shaking with fright. Good luck, New Yorkers.

H. Bioshock and Ayn Rand’s libertarianism.

I. Is Iran on the brink of change?

J. The CSIRO is short of money. Its senior managers have VC experience: call Sandhill Road firms or CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby (The Power Law; More Money Than God; and his new book The Infinity Machine on DeepMind out on 30th June 2026).

K. Demos on human rights and digital rights.

L. Matt Bevan has a bunch of new episodes on ABC Australia’s series If You’re Listening.

M. US Army War College lectures, including the very Clausewitzean Theories of War series.

N. The OECD on why bullying occurs in education.

O. Former Goldman Sachs portfolio manager Chris Cathey has a new memoir out.

P. University of Alberta Professor Richard Sutton on the future of AI.

Q. Audio from the John Godolphin Bennett Foundation.