I mean like… Trojan condoms exist

Nostalgia's okay, but it used to be better

Worrier ethos

A lot of people are saying cinnamon will make you artistic, so we're going to be looking into that

JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON FROM JUDGMENT TO CALCULATION

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”

This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2024 is Johanna Rodehau-Noack for her article ‘Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers’.

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Rhymes with shmesearchgate

For anyone who is interested in this but doesn’t have institutional access (unfort. we couldn’t get the monies for OA): email the authors, we‘re happy to share!

Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It Abstract. This forum urges international relations (IR) practitioners to rethink the nature of both failure and success, and their own responsibility in bu

we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it

check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure

@meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social

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Thanks for the shout-out, Matthias!

I am almost 37 years old, it is obscene that I have to spend this much time worrying about the computer

ZIZEK: that Al will be the death of social media & so on; to this, I say NO! The AI user shares content, which has been created by AI, other AI users like and comment & we are free! While the 'socializing' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to do whatever we want

It would be fun to have sideline reporters at academic conferences.

Reporter: "Prof. Rothman, how do you come back from such a devastating Q&A? They really hammered you out there."

Me: "All we can do is go back to the archives, find more evidence, and then just trust the process, Helen."

vase with a cat face insert but the cat has fish for eyes

consider this

michel foucault [in thought, wearing a santa hat]: technologies of the elf

you’ve heard of the Elf On A Shelf, now get ready for

death

2am going back to the computer for more pdfs

i once fought the law. guess what happened

i personally would never make a social media account. i don’t need this kind of attention

Life Hack: To avoid awkward small talk this Thanksgiving, prepare a few icebreakers to start the conversation, for example:

“What’s your favorite area denial weapon?”
“Did you know the velociraptors in Jurassic Park are actually deinonychus?”
“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?”

some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair

[toothfairy dumping a bucket of teeth into Coinstar machine]

Peacekeeping Thermonuclear War
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A map of a neural network. On the left are five trolleys, linked to a series of circles representing the neural network, linked with a dense set of lines indicating possible connections. On the right, the result of the neural network is a number of people tied to train tracks.

Dusting off my best work

i for one am just here to cause chaos

jk back in three days lol

Screenshot from a manuscript review platform, asking the reviewer (myself) to rate the paper on a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 indicating that the paper is among the best I've read in 2 years

This has to stop

Image of a mannequin wearing a white hoodie in a sports equipment story, one arm hanging much lower than the other because it has fallen off but is held in place (albeit the wrong one) because it's still in the sleeve.

Once again mannequins are perpetuating impossible beauty standards