even as denmark puts out statements asking the US to back off greenland, it won’t come out and directly criticize the US for violating international law in venezuela. it’s the typical western response: “maduro was bad and international law should be respected” but never stating who violated it.

I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Am I the only one noticing that content *about* AI seems much more prone to AI-generated slop? Especially uncritical social sciences and humanities writing

This is a real European Commission document, obtained via the right of access to documents. It instructs staff with management responsibilities to use AI to draft documents and formulate speaking points. Whatever you think of technocracy, soon there'll be little 𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘯𝘦 (skill) left in Brussels.

I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.

What’s the opposite of a peace dividend? A war deficit?

Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Incredible

Danmark er blevet storeksportør af sprøjtegifte, som er ulovlige i DK og resten af EU. Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør. ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...

“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵

Now that election season is over, Norway again shows its true imperial face: Ethical guidelines for the Sovereign Wealth Fund to be loosened because of fear that they'll *actually* safeguard against investment in genocide. www.ft.com/content/12a5...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

I can think of at least seven ways fossil fuel producers could wiggle out of this, but still: holy shit this is huge.

Eurocentrism - the Acemoglu version

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened

Four photos from the Cor Vos agency. This first one is Joop Zoetemelk doing some motor-pacing in a time when road safety and childcare was a bit different...

One confusing thing about the liberal media is that it's extremely right-wing

My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...

Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026. 🧶 1/20

No diga comunicado, diga tunda.

Just a major sports publication manipulating a leading cyclist's (Jonas Vingegaard) quote to obscure his sympathy with protests against Israel. Cowardice in the face of genocide

For Danish-speakers, I have co-written an op-ed in @politiken.dk about Israels ecocide in Gaza and the necessity of thinking rising militarialism, imperialism and ecological crisis together. politiken.dk/del/Rg8Jg_AE...

If you ask such a system to explain a previous 'decision' it won't explain its process, it will generate words that read as a statically plausible sentence(s) which describe that sort of process.

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Great piece on LLMs codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o...

🔥 Thrilled to host the 3rd Annual Socio-Economic Research Networking Day @roskildeuni.bsky.social —with 20+ brilliant minds and 12 sharp presenters from across Scandinavia 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 from #Economics, #Sociology, #Anthropology, #Political #Ecology & #Development #Studies. 💡Join us next year at RUC!

So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU. Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸 politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...

Blatant attack on freedom on speech in Denmark - the Parliament forbids schoolchildren (!!) and youth party activists from discussing Palestine in schools. 'Orwellian' is usually hyperbole, but it applies straightforwardly here. Shame on Danish politicians politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

2/2 As a reminder, the abstract of the workshop is: Why is it that certain forms of environmental knowledge are held in higher regard than others? How can this be reconciled? How can both forms of knowledge be treated on equal par? In other words, how can decision-making processes be democratised?

Come hear @kmunro-econ.bsky.social talk about her exciting research in Copenhagen✨ The talk is free and open to everyone!

A bunch of fossil fuel companies that were already planning to shut down their coal plants anyway are going to be happy about this carbon-pulse.com/394149/

An aid ship heading to Gaza has sent out a distress signal after crew members say it was hit in a drone attack and has caught fire. There are 30 aid workers on board the Freedom Flotilla ship, which was attempting to break Israel’s 2-month aid blockade.

Pretty wild to see net zero, which was a way to bring carbon removal into mainstream policy, now being contrasted with carbon capture www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us

Sporting hypocrisy and double standards @bdsmovement.bsky.social bdsmovement.net/news/giro-d%...

I am just looking up a quote in a book I read a while ago, and getting pushed this useless AI 'research assistant' slop (using completely unnecessary computational energy). This is in software tailor-made for research and higher education. When will the madness end?

Helt vanvittigt take fra industrilandbruget på det her: Pattegrisene dør ikke, fordi soen ikke producerer nok mælk - de dør, fordi vi har skamavlet søerne så meget ud af en rådden tangent, at de får flere unger end hvad der er naturligt. Lav nogle regler for det, i stedet for at lade det eskalere.

Let's not mince words: Mahmoud Khalil was abducted and disappeared, without consideration of rule of law, by an authoritarian regime intent on crushing dissent and criticism. Free Mahmoud Khalil.

Car obesity, Danish edition. #dktrp www.dst.dk/da/Statistik...

Det rene vanvid fra politiet - det her ligner mere smålig hævn end proportionel magtanvendelse. Fuldstændig uacceptabelt arrogance fra en person i en meget magtfuld position

@oliverstilling.bsky.social rammer hovedet på sømmet. @foljeton.dk

Voldsparate idioter i uniform www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

Not my field at all but this sounds kind of amazing

I wrote a thing for @srm360.bsky.social about solar geoengineering in the Arctic and how it's not particularly feasible in an increasingly securitised region. I also reflect on the dangers of it becoming a colonial and extractivist project. srm360.org/perspective/....