The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Great short thread on the National Security Strategy.

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Very good thread.

This Friday I had the pleasure to present my article ”Assange & Honeytrap(s) for the special issue on the contextual turn in intelligence analysis in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies edited by @hedvigorden.bsky.social at #show2025 @sochistorywar.bsky.social as always an amazing experience!

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture. 🔍 Zoom in…

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

New article with @draege.bsky.social out in Scandinavian Political Studies: “Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict.” We test whether politicians in one of the world’s least polarized democracies, Norway, can calm conflict as effectively as they can inflame it. #polisky

In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.

Reading headlines about the US massing forces to Venezuela and ”what is Trump’s aim with the troops ?” reminds me of a certain other country that massed troops at a neighbour’s border 4 years ago and headlines were wondering what Putin’s aim could possibly be

Read the letter:

Ny rapport om högskolornas budget: Det statliga "produktivitetsavdraget" innebär effektiviseringskrav på 1-2 % av budgeten/år. Idag har högskolorna 40 % mindre resurser per elev än för 30 år sedan, vilket minskat den lärarledda undervisningen drastiskt. tankesmedjanbalans.se/ny-rapport-o...

När 13-åringar slängs i fängelse har vi gett upp, skriver Karin Pettersson i en text som inleder artikelserien ”Våra drömmars barn”: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Eyd...

Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control' The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Well isn’t this a literal fucking nightmare…

🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account. A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Hur gör svenska regeringen och FRA? När debatten pågick 2008 påpekade jag (och andra) att lagstiftningen medger bred inhämtning och.lagring av data. Lagen saknar meningsfulla begränsningar vad gäller utbyte med andra länder, regeringen och FRA har fria händer.

The Dutch intelligence services are already sharing less intelligence with the US than they used to, their directors confirm: "Though we do not take any political positions, we are very cognisant of the potential politicisation of how our intelligence gets used by others." nos.nl/artikel/2586...

You need to read this. A collision of the CIA, the Smithsonian, a famous sculptor, and two writers with a love of library sciences.

Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI makes shit up

Mycket angelägen debattartikel. 25 åklagare skriver: www.dn.se/debatt/det-a...

1/3 The Danish Defense Intelligence Service has published a new assessment today, on the "hybrid threat to Denmark". It's 5 pages so here is a short thread with screenshots.

Moldavien. Valdeltagande 51,9 procent. Samma nivå som i presidentvalet i fjol. Men högre än parlamentsvalet 2021 - 48,3%

As Moldova heads to the polls today, it does so in the midst of coordinated foreign influence and disinformation campaigns. Electoral integrity and free and fair elections are not self-evident. That should be a reminder for everyone. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Now if we can just ensure Trump doesn’t speak to anyone else for the next three months, we will be in a very good position.

EU-kommissionen vågar trots hot från Trump. Google straffas med nära 3 miljarder euro för att ha skaffat sig nära nog monopol på annonsmarknad. Beslutet skulle ha offentliggjorts i måndags. Stoppades av handelskommissionären Sefcovic, enligt uppgift efter hot från USA www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Interesting news from Denmark this morning: at least three American men with ties to Trump have been traveling back and forth to Greenland to recruit locals and gather information on people hostile to Trump. A spectacularly amateurish covert operation. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

This suggests that "AI" is as much a cultural shift as it is a technological one—the hype-shrouded AI boom has given managers encouragement and cover to break previous norms and standards, even if it means a loss in quality. As the boom appears to give way to a bust, that may be all the clearer.

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Almost 1000 journalists have signed. Among them: @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social @alexcrawfreports.bsky.social @willcoldwell.bsky.social @ninaj13.bsky.social @yarnoritzen.com @rebeccaritters.bsky.social @cristinaolea.bsky.social @barbaraschiavulli.bsky.social @erikdelareguera.com #DefendHumanDignity

An expert in crowd psychology explains why some peaceful protests turn violent, and why riots can spread.

if your not using ai youre going to get left behind. you gotta use it. guys please use it. we're going to make you use it. your fridge is ai now. fuck you

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

War crimes as a form of marketing

No words 💔

This is a big stat. In fact it is even bigger than this headline suggests: *over 90%* of Europeans with a view on the matter prefer a European social media service. (ie, excluding 'don't knows')

This is right - a great piece from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social It would make for better policymaking if politicians understood tech better. For that to happen they have to be allowed to ask basic questions and not be mocked for it, fun though that can be www.ft.com/content/36eb...