I need s k AI for two tasks: (1) to respond "no" whenever new AI-tools are forced upon me in existing programs, and (2) to respond "don't believe the hype" into "surveys on my view on AI in teaching/research". The latter... 3 in a week...?

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www.theguardian.com/football/202... It's time to talk about the horrors in Sudan - and Rhen support of UAE - just like we talk about the horrors in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... It's not radikal- it's tuesday

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Populist governments cause more damage and stick around longer: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Happy 80th anniversary. Still needed, maybe more than ever.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

🇪🇺 Europeans say no to tariffs! Check out the @uu.se press release on our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social study exploring what Europeans really think about trade barriers in an era of rising global tensions. www.uu.se/en/press/pre... Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

I agree. The marginal gains are trivial for most use cases, and the "PhDs in your pocket" is really "sounds like someone with a PhD but actually requires the user to have one to know when it hallucinates."

Amazing

The good thing about starting a war with an imaginary opponent ("antifa") is that peace negotiations are so much easier...

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A great way to sabotage any comparative advantage in the growing market for green energy. Kind of like when Japan decided "this trade thingy is not for us" - how did that pan out?

"Democracy is a precondition for lastning peace", well played by the norwegians...

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners. Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025 "In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness." snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

Reading this will not make you more stupid

5-4 after giving up a 3-0 lead at halftime (and 4-2 at 88 minutes)! Why make it easy for ourselves... ÖSK great escape is on!

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

1000 cites, that's amazing. Thank you everyone using the UCDP Conflict Termination data. BTW, it was updated this summer to now cover 1946-2023.

On this day 70 years ago, the leadership of KGB Second Chief Directorate (counterintel) met in Moscow. I located & obtained the meeting transcript from the Lithuanian Special Archives in Vilnius. I translated it & wrote an analysis for the Wilson Center. ⬇️ www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/...

@cohman.bsky.social is one of two receivers of this year's Oscar Prize at Uppsala University. Grats Carl! "Carl Öhman's book The Afterlife of Data asks important questions about who should control the data we leave behind us, and by extension, our collective history." www.uu.se/en/staff/new...

On the one hand, the world is a mess. On the other hand, this view and a beer...

I'm all in favor of impeachment of Trump, but the US have bombed countries multiple times before without clear congress mandate. If/when Iran retaliates, though, ...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social lies about the causes of the electricity blackout in Spain on April 28th: It wrongly claims that the official report blames renewables when it does the opposite. It names negative prices as the main trigger instead of poorly controlled voltage fluctuations.

So the President can be (and should be) impeached, but is there no way to remove his appointments? They are violating the constitution on a daily basis, there must be some way to oust them besides "he/she should resign"?

The violence seems to be getting the most attention here, but hear what she is saying. Federal troops have the intent to "liberate" the city and state from elected leaders. Anyone still thinking this is not an authoritarian takeover?

New data from UCDP shows the highest number of active conflicts ever recorded, press release found here: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes

Do you work on gender and peacebuilding broadly defined (including everything from ceasefires to transitional justice)? I’m looking for pitches to contribute to a special issue, especially interested in quantitative research by scholars outside of Europe/US/Canada. Email/DM me!

BREAKING: After being called senile, and Newsom denying that they talked yesterday, Trump released this screenshot to the media to show that he actually did speak to Gavin Newsom a day ago, like he claimed. What do you notice from this screenshot? For those who are slow today is June 10.

I'm not one to tell anyone what to do, but now is the time to protest everywhere invthe US against the power grab and in support of LA. It is important to show that there is not widespread support or acceptance of dictatorship. Your audience are fellow citizens, the courts, and the security forces.

Trump Wanted the "Battle of Los Angeles." Instead Latinos have inspired a national uprising Latino communities in L.A have played an integral and instructional role in protests that are inspiring actions in dozens of other U.S cities LATEST for PWS! (📸by Sergio Olmos)

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

This is a great post covering relevant aspects of how security forces may respond to protests.

These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

In today's episode of making Trump USA more like China: "we'll send more security forces if violence persist" while violeence is only used by security forces. Homework reading: Tiananmen square, Xinjiang, Hong Kong.

Happy Eid and Swedish National Day for those that celebrate either or both.

Trump in the Epstein files is no great reveal. It was probable already at the 95% significance level before.