post # 5: Why cybernetics needs a political economy miltonlmueller.substack.com/…

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This is a horrid idea. Full stop.

Export controls since 2010: ~$158B market cap loss for US firms, ~$18B for Chinese targets (per Fed economists). China's domestic chip equipment share went from 25% → 35% in one year. Cheng & Mueller call it what it is: unilateral disarmament dressed up as containment. We kneecap American companies while China builds around them. internetgovernance.org/2026/…

@bkuerbis analyzes Project Glasswing and the changing institutional economics of bugs. If the bug discovery premium is gone, what about patch verification? internetgovernance.org/2026/…

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here. Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch. Let's go.

We have a destructive and costly war on, and Democrats like Garcia are trying to revive the Epstein files issue. Trumps war is choking the economy, eating trillions, killing and inviting retaliation and Congress does nothing about it

Well, Trump always said he was against free trade. I guess he’s not in favor of free trade in oil either.

I wonder how the MAGAts areor coping mentally with the large number of anti-Trump protests yesterday.

Is it truth bombs this guy is interested in, or is it the lethal kind?

The people who say they hate globalists are the same ones supporting American power projection in North America, South America, Central America, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. So they’re against global trade, but they’re in favor of being a global policeman

My new Substack - on digitization open.substack.com/pub/milton…

Seems like Substack's Twitter equivalent is a better place for public discourse.

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Please listen to Charlie Kirk deliver a 6 minute sermon on the "lunacy" of the U.S. military trying to regime change Iran. This is from the June 17, 2025 edition of the Charlie Kirk Show. "What have we learned when it comes to wars and especially wars in the Middle East? What you draw up on a whiteboard rarely happens -- what, you think, theoretically, is going to occur. There might be on intended an unforeseen consequences, especially when you’re talking about a country two and a half times the size of Texas. "And Iran has 90 million people and was an Ancient Greek great power with well over a dozen ethnic groups. You have underground Christians, you don’t really have many Jews left and in Persia, but also you have secular, younger Persians -- who’s going to run the country exactly, Lindsey Graham? This sounds like Hillary Rodham Clinton in Libya."

Can you think of any more ridiculous category for people than “white?” It is not a nationality, a culture, or a religion. It even fails as a race - does it include Iranians? Italians? Mexicans? Afghans? Egyptians? Jews? Do Germans and Canadians crave a common “homeland?”

So…8 days of bombing, the Iranian state still functions, a new Supreme leader is announced, there is no anti-regime uprising, and civilians are choking on fumes from burning oil. The war without a purpose continues

If the US has succeeded in “decapitating” the Iranian regime, then why are we still getting official announcements from Iran state media?

Frankly, the only news outlet I watch to find out what’s happening in the Iran war is Al Jazeera