Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I like the awareness that value is social but my own anthropological view is values are usually products of histories and valued substances index those histories in complex ways. A thread I should not attempt while suffering a major cold but what the heck let’s try… 1/

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

The plan was for Iran to capitulate in response to threats, or quickly fold in the face of airstrikes and assassinations, empowering new leaders who then capitulate.

There is no backup plan. Never was.

Their whole worldview is that strength gets you whatever you want and bluster equals strength.

Offensively Dumb Realism

I was just asked by a media outlet about Trump asking NATO for a plan for the alliance to do something about the Strait of Hormuz.

Like fetch, it ain't gonna happen.

1. Trump started this without consultation so its his problem
2. NATO operates by consensus. Good luck with that
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Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026.
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It's @professormusgrave.bsky.social o'clock again, alas

One day, some PhD student will point to a Trump tweet from this period and say it was obvious what he meant and I will throttle them

Trump threatening to annex Greenland because the Norwegian government didn't give him the Nobel prize seems relatively sane compared with where we are now.

The Strategic Defeat of the United States Congratulations, Trump administration, you played yourself -- and America.

As @dandrezner.bsky.social concludes, the war is a strategic defeat for the United States. We are worse off than before the war, and already there have been military and civilian costs. As many experts have said, hard to see opening Hormuz militarily. 5/ danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-strate...

If we're to fix these problems then we need to understand what's causing them in the first place. In my opinion, since 2016, too much attention has been paid to issues like foreign interference and disinformation, and not enough time looking at the problems with our democracies.

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

NASA Unveils 1st Earth Photos From Artemis II: ‘You Look Beautiful.’

"You look amazing, you look beautiful": The astronauts of Artemis II send back photos of Earth as they race toward the moon, the first images of our planet taken from such a distance in more than a half century. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...

This is so, so well-articulated.

trump can't legally withdraw from nato without senate consent.

but if nato members can't trust that the united states will honor article 5, the alliance is already broken in the way that matters most.

Today, I am teaching a unit on deterrence and nuclear weapons in a multipolar system to students whose university has been threatened with destruction by a potential nuclear power during a war driven in part by fears of nuclear proliferation.

Who says theory isn't relevant

We all know this is fascism.

A probability sample of 1000 can give you a high level of accuracy when measuring public opinion.

👇🎯

Trump II clearly got intoxicated with the way the June 2025 bombing of Iran and the Maduro raid seemingly contradicted the theories of liberal internationalism (having already memory-holed the ways in which the Greenland debacle validated them).

The Iran War highlights how shortsighted this was.

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…

Ugh!!

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AI writing is not scholarship.

Exhibit A:

The weeks-long investigation, details of which have not previously been reported, uncovered no records indicating censorship, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. “There is no evidence that Member States of the European Union are overreaching the DSA to censor and criminalize online content,” they wrote in conclusion.

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY.

Not that you'd know that from the headline.

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A screenshot of Google search with verge headlines rewritten as slop Lego Computer Brick - Engineer James Brown Aug 20, 2022 — James Brown has brilllantly brought classic Lego computer bricks to life by outfitting them with a tiny OLED screen, processor, ... Y/ The Verge https://www.theverge.com› Al> Tech, Reviews: "Cheat on everything" Al tool Apr 23, 2025 - Two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their Al tool Cluely to "cheat on everything." Read more The Verge https://www.theverge.com» » Microsoft›Al› Tech: Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again 22 Aug 2024 — Microsoft is getting ready to rebrand its Copilot for its business Al efforts. It's part of an effort to push Microsoft 365 Al tools. The Verge https://www.theverge.com› Wearable Science Tech: Dexcom Stelo hands-on - OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor Aug 26, 2024 - The $99 Dexcom Stelo is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor designed for Type 2 diabetics who don't use insulin.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Utah is reporting that about 10% of their measles cases are vaccinated, showing the importance of community immunity in preventing infectious disease transmission.

As herd immunity continues to erode, I would expect to see cases in vaccinated healthcare providers tick upward.

Time will tell.

Trump is externally focused. He has threatened or conducted interventions in autocracies like Iran and Venezuela, and democracies like Denmark (Greenland). He has no interest in institutions, he just wants a pliant leader who will do what he wants. 5/

Fun fact: my dissertation was called "Wars of Choice" (became Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions @cornellupress.bsky.social). Tl;dr: they rarely go well. 1/ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

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