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susannah glickman

@susglickman.bsky.social

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assistant professor at stony brook university writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

www.nybooks.com

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 2d

I write here about why he’s full of shit www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 20h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 22h

This piece actually begins with the exhortation. www.fpri.org/article/2023...

Government Push for Champions Could Have Firms Champing at the Bit - Foreign Policy Research Institute

The schema laid out above might help explain how the largest and most influential sections of corporate America see themselves and why they are reluctant to

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Like a canary in coal mine…

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 2d

from 1972 von neumann conference: on the role of the computer as a metaphor in Chomsky’s success
(from IAS archives)

Speculation that Chomsky’s success relies on the popularity of computer as metaphor

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

??????

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 2d

via Asher Peres, nobel peace prize has always been bullshit

Professor says begin deserves physics award (headline). Hand written: “how to demonstrate against Mr. Begin without being tear-gassed

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

“Venture-funded defense-tech firms like Palantir and Anduril have,” Susannah Glickman writes, “positioned themselves as the solution” to the ills of American industry “without any clear evidence that they can deliver on that promise.”

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 2d

I write here about why he’s full of shit www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 2d

via Asher Peres, nobel peace prize has always been bullshit

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4d

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too.
So much for America First!

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 5d

have a little slide abt how it conquered quantum

Slide about quantum primacy with quote from Landauer, Feynman and Wheeler

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 5d

echoing praise for @susglickman.bsky.social 's recent NYRB article on DoD, private equity, and silicon valley. pair with @hozic.bsky.social 's earlier piece on hollywood, the valley and DoD -> comprehensive picture.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

www.nybooks.com

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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social · 5d

It's nice to be excited about science again. Congratulations to my old colleague, Michel Devoret!

Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓

cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel

Quantum tunneling trio win the 2025 physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale

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404 Media @404media.co · 5d

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 5d

thanks!!

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

www.nybooks.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6d

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

have a new piece out that asks the question: is it good to run the pentagon like a private equity firm?

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 7d

“The primary product of the defense VC strategy,” the scholar Elke Schwarz has written in a recent article, “is not a defense technology as such, but financial returns achieved through growth.”

Great article by @susglickman.bsky.social

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

www.nybooks.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8d

Why is BigTech criticising the military industrial complex suddenly?

They want a new breed of “smart weapons” and a big slice of what will likely be a 1000 billion dollar defence bill from Trump GOP

Read this brilliant analysis by @susglickman.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

www.nybooks.com

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

excited to read!

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 8d

There's a chapter in my forthcoming book on #WallStreetConsensus on Barbarians inside the social state, but this brilliant piece shows they're now deep inside the defense state

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

have a new piece out that asks the question: is it good to run the pentagon like a private equity firm?

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

definitely! will send now.

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