In the State Department’s original tweet, they tagged the wrong Gustavo Petro. Imagine being a random guy from Brazil and waking up to learn you’ve been visa banned from the US

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

Everyone remember when @emptywheel.bsky.social was thrown off of all cable news because she said that Bill Clinton got a "blowjob?"

Job!

Job! Political Theory Tenure-track or Tenured Musashi University, Toyko www.ipsa.org/na/job-offer...

The stakes are that we can't have good faith debates about current issues when vast swathes of the existing literature is not cited or engaged with, & when past history is revised as if it never existed.

ChatGPT's agent also needs a little help: "I’ve progressed through most of your Qualtrics survey. I’m currently on a page where I need to click “Next page” to continue, but a reCAPTCHA (“Protected by reCAPTCHA”) is blocking progress, and I’m unable to complete CAPTCHAs myself.

This is an intriguing and complex question. It’s hard to determine what “use” would mean, however. A recent political philosophy piece of mine delved into the mid 20th century Soviet contention that gas and oil were mineral, not fossil, in nature.

the problem is the way a 20-year-old Mormon from St. George would text his trans girlfriend is indistinguishable from the way a 60-year-old FBI agent would write fake texts to a trans girlfriend

“As soon as I stepped into a dorm, the woke student horde looked at me cockeyed, as if to tell me that I didn’t belong there for the sole reason that I am a straight, white man who happened to barely graduate in the year 1983 and am neither enrolled in nor recently affiliated with the school...”

In memoriam

In memoriam

Reading book V of Ibn Khaldûn’s Muqaddimah & his description of “treasure hunters” is the best description of crypto traders I’ve read.

I’m gonna get started on the authoritarian crackdown just as soon as I finish gutting state capacity

this is cheese phenetics and I won't stand for it

Not happy about repeatedly explaining what a “groyper” is to groups of political scientists

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

At least neoconservativism is an ethos. Whereas third way centrists are nihilists

I'm begging people to understand the Mulford Act and its relation to gun control in the later 20th century with Ronald Reagan at the center

Obviously the only problem with Bluesky is not enough starter packs

Obviously the only problem with Bluesky is not enough starter packs go.bsky.app/7FUfDKQ

I have a book cover!

@nytimes.com needs to learn that “alleged” can apply to official acts as well as criminal charges.

It’s dumbass takes like this (and the subsequent justified pile-on) that convinces me that Bluesky is in fact the new Twitter

"You’re a fine arts major? You should have generative AI draw those nudes for you, and your fellow arts majors will use machine vision to look at your work, and Chat GPT will write up much better criticism than any 19- or 20-year-old brain could have ever come up with."

Anyway rolling into the new semester like

(In particular a lot of the “body is evil!” stuff is really Platonic influence and not in Paul, or not in the sense that it’s later understood. And much of the worst content on women is in the probably-not-really-Paul letters)

One of my biggest issues with ChatGPT and OpenAI is that they insist everybody on god’s green earth should be using their products, including children, even though they know full well their products are dangerous for people with mental health issues and have been encouraging suicide

What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues. Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...

As Tooze points out, Lambert made this point in 2016 & there’s a whole issue of The Funambulist from a few months ago on this. thefunambulist.net/magazine/bul...

Through this commonality, they coined the manifesto notion of “Irradiated International” that links communities and nations evoked throughout this issue. As such, it was important for us to include an excerpt (the final third) of Lou’s lecture in it. thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

What is wrong with Effective Altruism, part the infinity

*Taps sign*

“The Left” has an authenticity aura. Our cultural understanding is: “People are leftists because they care about e.g. equality, justice, the good of society.” So people like this — pro-capitalist institutionalists — desperately want to be seen as on “the left.”

Also raising @josemarichal.bsky.social's piece, which contemplates this phenomenon: www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-resp...

My esteemed colleague who has suggested the universities drop that humanities has also previously written about how he doesn't think his grants should have to cover maternity leave, so I feel that perhaps, I am going to not even touch this one 😇

In heaven, everything is fine.

Here was Ashley Parker, spreading a WaPo editorial at a time of near historic D.C. crime lows, all to get Biden to overrule local democracy and overturn local D.C. elected officials. The story I tell about this in my book are shocking.

The “Civil War was caused by Yankee tariffs” crowd has been pretty quiet lately…

This paper had a long gestation but is now out in Political Studies: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Looking forward to the moment when a random DC resident is being shouted at by a DEA agent to do one thing and by an ICE agent to do exactly the opposite thing, and they have to figure out the proper chain of command in order to avoid being shot.

Oh no. Says a marketer.

AWW's list of multiple symptoms of political, cultural and willingly obeyed Gleichschaltung in Germany. Some Germans hate him prob bec they don't like to see reflections and think of themselves as superior. His reflections are accurate. Additional reflections re food are trivial, but accurate.

An Indigenous group won claim to hundreds of acres of metropolitan Vancouver after a years-long trial and landmark judgment at British Columbia’s supreme court

With @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social!

In which the NYT explores anti-Mamdani sentiment among Hindu voters without ever investigating how many Hindu voters in New York City (the place where Mamdani is running) support him.

A blinking warning light for the future of the intensive water-use data centers underpinning AI