The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

How #America Lost Its Voice Overseas, by Joshua Muravchik #GI7100 #GI5052 #GI6051

So much for 'Global Britain', so much for British #softpower #GI7100 #GI5052 #UK

If generative AI is so good, how come the companies are having to fund further investment with debt? I sincerely home Teachers’ Pension isn’t investing in this shit

Aren’t the Oslo accords already arrested for quite some while?

The husband and wife Norwegian team who helps kickstart the Oslo Peace process are being investigated for their links to Epstein #GI4059 #GI5052

I’m getting pretty good at roasting things. Next week I’ll show you my honey parsnips, if you’re lucky

Bahar Rumelili and Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm discuss their new article, 'Feminising diplomatic work: Driving devaluation?' courtesy of @mybisa.bsky.social #GI5051 #GI5052 #GI7037

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

No wonder the tech bros are so desperate for schools and universities to conspire with them in making young people completely dependent on this environment-destroying, culture-polluting and truth-eroding technology #AI

If I am made redundant after 19 years of service, I’d get less than half of Mandelson’s pay-off for being sacked in disgrace

"take a look boys, this is what you're fighting for"

Giorgia Meloni to Vance at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. #olympics

Trump’s trashing of Brand America revealed in European surveys #GI7100 #GI5052 #nationbrand

Ann Miller was great

#GI7100 #GI5052 #UK #broadcasting #iran

The Economist is offering paid internships of up to a year to work on its social media platforms

Just over a year ago, Marco Rubio set out the Trump administration’s rather unique approach to diaspora diplomacy, and public diplomacy more generally, as we discussed in our #GI7100 class this morning

Oh, something else Epstein had in common with Trump

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

War crimes on the rise #GI4055 #GI4059

So he was neither drunk nor high when he said he could enlarge women’s breasts with his mind?

Our former Ambassador Most Extraordinary to the United States

Says a rapist

Cluny Brown once more this evening. The saga of The Honourable Betty Cream (there's a great version of the film, sans adverts, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQb_...)

Unless it’s teaching people exactly what goes into these systems, how they work, and look at them through a critical lens- then this can fuck off.

Guess who? My rejoinder is that professors appointed by the University of Kent are not necessarily academics

A young Laurel and Hardy in Baisers volés (dir. Truffaut 1968). Both Claude Jade and Delphine Seyrig in one shot

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

‘You don’t want to live inside his head’: diplomats’ dilemma in the age of Trump #GI5051 #GI7037

Dr Maria J. Stephan talks to Stephen Colbert about non-violent resistance #GI5053 #GI4059

And again

Le Beau Serge (dir. Claude Chabrol, 1958) is almost Russian in its darkness

I love the footage of the attempt by Turkmenistan President Niyazov to gift his prized horse Maksat to Britain's prime minister John Major, in Adam Curtis’s Russia, 1985-1999: Trauma-Zone (episode 5) #gifts #GI5051 #GI7100 #GI7037

Journey to Italy (dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1954). George Sanders’ character is so spectacularly rude about the country, the food and the people

‘Taiwan could use more food diplomacy,’ by Paul Rockower (@levantine18.bsky.social) #GI7100 #GI5052 #gastrodiplomacy

Bullshit machine feeds on bullshit. A spokesperson for OpenAI is quoted as saying that ChatGPT’s web search function “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.” I’d sooner have accurate, honest and truthful information.

WHO removing Us Flag

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

Mark Carney says Canada must ‘be a beacon to a world that’s at sea’

"Discoveries" lolz

Some interesting considerations for colleagues using games to teach Politics and IR

King’s Spent £35k on Copilot AI as 10 Students Expelled for AI Misuse Since 2022

Great to see @mybisa.bsky.social posting Alexander Borum's list of career and internship opportunities in international affairs on its website

Someone f'd up at Davos B&Q mixing that colour

Like a scene from the Madam Tussauds Chamber of Horrors

Benjamin Netanyahu can't sign the Gaza Board of Peace agreement in Davos because Switzerland have said they will arrest him if he enters the country. It is a Board of War Criminals.

Trump’s approach to foreign policy follows the pattern of domestic abuse: Gillian Tett’s cutting and biting analysis of a turbulent week in American “diplomacy” #GI5051 #GI4055 #GI5076 #GI7037