Thanks Caleb!

Producing and shaping migrant domestic workers’ everyday lives: The role of the migration broker This paper examines the role of migration brokers in producing and shaping the everyday lives of Sri Lankan live-in migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in the State of Kuwait: a long-established patter...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... New piece from Wasana Handapangoda #gendersky

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Life atm: are these authors real? Is this university real? Is this dataset real? Are these citations real?

AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains Research shows that a hidden American worldview can shape AI advice in ways that are culturally misleading.

theconversation.com/ais-fluency-...

Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

This is an excellent and moving read: "This is the recurring illusion of overequipped leaders: Because they can map the battle space, they think they understand the war. But war is never merely a technical contest." Indeed. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

mb.com.ph/2026/03/29/p... Well that takes care of the first island chain. When your enemies are making mistakes, don't interrupt them 🤷‍♀️

Russian oil arrives as Philippines battles ‘energy emergency’ A ship carrying more than 700,000 barrels of Russian crude oil has arrived in the Philippines, a source with knowledge of the matter told AFP Thursday,

english.alarabiya.net/business/ene... Russia making hay

Red letters "MIH" on a black background, with the "I" in a slightly lighter shade.

#OpenAccess from Modern Intellectual History -

The Politics of Hope, Democracy in Crisis: Cycles in the Human Body, Chinese History, and American Politics - https://cup.org/4bKOR03

- Ilnyun Kim (Ewha Womans University)

#FirstView

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NEW ISSUE from Politics and the Life Sciences -

Volume 45 - Issue 1 - Spring 2026 - https://cup.org/4re3eQa

There are nearly half a million seafarers on these tankers. That's risk enough.

My analogous realisation was that the university admin think that the purpose of teaching is to attract tuition fees and the purpose of research is to attract grants.

dutchreview.com/news/dutch-p... In other news...

Great how Europe is redeploying some of its best equipment away from Russia to deal with a crisis created by our "security guarantor."

I am delighted that the special issue ‘Socialist Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century’ has now been published in the Journal of Contemporary History. This special issue was a joy to edit and brings together a dream team of contributors. I'll post the contributions in this thread...

Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap YouTube video by Predictive History

youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo?... What a moment to have your lecture from two years ago go viral

www.philstar.com/opinion/2026... "If the Iran war takes years and Middle East Filipino workers are displaced, can our economy create 2.5 million jobs instantly for them?"

Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

"Donald Trump is much closer to sending US troops to invade Iran than people realize."

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

as Beirut finds itself in the crosshairs I’ll be watching two fascist states destroy two other states as they build on destroveloping that other one that got them into a spot of trouble.

World politics today is so cool.

blood, chaos. not a states right to be found.

So who really ended IR?

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists Reading by Tim Foley:

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists

They are everything they accuse Iran of being. They are dangerous religious fanatics. They cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. They are the tyrants. They are the monsters.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-war...

The international law of empires could only flourish because it rested on social inequality.

How can we escape the current international law of authoritarian oligarchs?

MATTHIAS GOLDMANN argues that only social equality can enable a fair international law of equals.

verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

​Teodoro echoed earlier statements from the DND and the Armed Forces of the Philippines that the military installations are not US-controlled bases and remain under the full ownership, control and management of the Philippine military.

Read more: https://mrf.lu/S918

Donald Trump won't ro=ule out boots on ground in Iran | The Jerusalem Post Speaking on Monday, Trump said he “didn’t care about polling,” argued that leaders sometimes must act without clear public backing, and claimed the operation was “way ahead of schedule.”

The GCC states shot down 5 warplanes today

3 were American
2 were Iranian

Trump just clarified he may order "boots on the ground"

Yep, war's going exactly as planned!

www.jpost.com/internationa...

Chinese Academy of Sciences proposes capping pay-to-publish fees for high-profile journals Journals charging article processing charges for open access in excess of $5000 are likely to be hit

www.chemistryworld.com/news/chinese... State power doing state power things.

Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation (1887) The theories and diagrams of Benjamin Betts detailing his remarkable attempts to mathematically model human consciousness through geometric forms.

broke: citing work from 2027

woke: citing work from 1987

BESPOKE: citing work from 1887

Louisa S. Cook's Geometrical psychology, or, The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

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Japan hits internationalisation target eight years early Japan’s internationalisation drive saw overseas student numbers surpass 400,000 last year. But can it balance labour market needs with public immigration debates to become a global educational hub?

thepienews.com/japan-hits-i... Stemming the tides of demographic winter.

I wonder, what is the origin of this Dunglish habit of people saying "yes (rising inflection)" at the end of an otherwise completely Dutch sentence 🤔 Something to end a statement to make sure the interaction/transaction is understood by both parties? Why not "toch"?

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Rich Kid's Talent Show - Winter Sports Are Out of Control YouTube video by Michael MacKelvie

youtu.be/7Y1moFmYKu4?... Neat deep-dive. It opens with how Norway has been dominating the WOG. Surprise surprise - public spending.

20th century: make claims about human nature by sampling American college students. 21st century: make claims about human nature by sampling Chinese college students 🤷‍♀️