I don’t know of any. Usually the expected value of information is positive (or non-zero). But maybe you could come up with a situation where refusing to receive a message signals resolve.

On the left , lighted trees. On the right, several pavilions glow gold. All reflected in water.

This place is crazy spectacular at night.

An island of colorfully lit trees with its reflection in the water.

Wolji pond in Gyeongju, South Korea

Yes, particularly since nothing Yale does individually will move trust as measured in polls. If that becomes the yardstick, they are setting themselves up for failure.

Although I think the Yale report raises some important issues, my main take away was disappointment that a university would provide such a shallow and empirically unsound analysis.

Confidence in Institutions Now I am going to read you a list of institutions in American society. Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in each one -- a great deal, quite a lot, some, or very little?

There’s also a broader context here of declining trust in ALL institutions. Glancing at the data here, higher education is doing better than most.

news.gallup.com/poll/1597/co...

Bet there isn’t an immersive VR experience on the north side of the DMZ. Capitalism ftw

Yep. Talk and conference at Korea University.

Talk and conference at Korea University. DMZ tour planned for tomorrow!

The crazy route my flight just took from Warsaw to Seoul.

A small park in Zurich

Israel is losing America’s youth | INSS A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the end of March and published last week indicates that a majority of the American public—including Republicans under the age of 50—view Israel unfavorably or...

Remember the @pewresearch.org data on the decline in Israel's standing in the US published last week? We asked them for the crosstabs which they graciously shared with us, and we're publishing for the 1st time.

Bottom line: total collapse of Israel's standing among young Americans across the board.

The Hungarian parliament building, soon under new management.

The lake glows gold as sun beams break through clouds. The are mountains all around and a town on green rolling hills below.

Magical view of Lake Lucerne from Stoos 📷

Cat statue wishing it were a real cat.

I hope they patched the places that weren’t hit!

The strong do what they will. The weak try to bullshit their way out of it.

Real fall of the Roman empire vibes here

Trump Quietly Scraps His Own Playbook on China The White House walks back the aggressive approach of the first administration, in a dramatic reversal.

Competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of contemporary international politics, but not of US foreign policy.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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Oh, I get that. I still think there is value to maintaining US de jure membership in NATO, even if Trump leaves de facto. If the law prevents Trump from formal withdrawal or allows the next president to declare such a withdrawal null, then it is helpful on the margin.

That seems right while Trump is in power, but when he leaves the scene, don't you think there is a better chance of resuscitating NATO if he only leaves de facto, not de jure?

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement.

That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance.

Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

Instead of criticizing young people for protesting too much or too little or for being wrong or for being right for the wrong reason or before it was popular, older generations should be apologizing profusely for the world we’re bequeathing them and working our butts off to make it better.

I can’t believe this needs to be said: Trump’s genocidal threat *weakened* his bargaining position. It boxed him into a corner from which he desperately needed to find a way out, thus ushering in the what’s probably the least favorable “cease fire” deal in U.S. history.

The unifying theme here is an aversion to learning.

New Deadline Looms for U.S. and Iran as Truce Wavers

1600 words on US decision making in the aftermath of the ceasefire and not one of them is "Rubio"

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

The influential talk radio host Mark Levin, who has Mr. Trump’s ear, has been highly critical of the cease-fire. The U.S. official said that Mr. Trump could sour on the agreement if those voices were not offset by prominent war critics like the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Mr. Trump could also be triggered by Iran’s boastful domestic messaging, which is consistent with the kind of posturing routine in Middle East diplomacy, but which might provoke a U.S. president highly attuned to appearances.

Can't say I find this characterization of the administration's decision making process very confidence inspiring.

Pivot to ecclesia

I see we’ve reached the “how many divisions does the pope have”
stage of megalomania. 🙄