This really can't be shared far enough. Make the thieving bastards pay!

The inquiry into Dawn Sturgess reminds us that you cannot do deals with a gangster

Steal one book from a bookshop: get charged with shoplifting Steal millions of books to feed to your plagiarism machine: make a pile of money ⚖

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news. For the Irish for a start.

The one thing more vomit-inducing for egregious sycophancy and underlying corruption than the North Korean-style obsequiousness of Trump's talentless cabinet is FIFA giving him a peace prize. If ever two discredited institutions deserved each other, it is FIFA and the US Presidency.

The only reason the Minsk agreements were needed was cos Russia wouldn't follow UN Charter 45 Nuclear NPT 70 Helsinki Accords 75 Paris Charter 90 Belovezha Accords 92 Budapest Memo 94 Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97 Friendship Treaty 98 Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait ‘03 Karkiv pact 10 And others.

OTD in 1918 USSR invaded Latvia. This is how Russia became the world's largest country. We keep peacefully attacking our neighbours.

Jeebus... I knew none of this... The Real-Life Hunt For Red October Happened 50 Years Ago www.twz.com/sea/the-real...

I’m pleased to share that the Royal Navy’s Strategic Studies Centre has now evolved into the Naval Staff Research Team, strengthening alignment between academia and Royal Navy priorities. Our role remains clear: to strengthen the Navy’s thinking edge. Different name. Same mission. Sharper intent.

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

I have written a post for the Department's research blog on my recent article (available open access - link in the blog) on the Madagascar campaign: www.kcl.ac.uk/the-british-... @dsdkings.bsky.social

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

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"Unfortunately, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire 28-point peace plan was eaten by a small dog."

Donald is the first person in history to think he'll win a Nobel Peace Prize by siding with the invader.

Today is 92nd anniversary of Holodomor. Soviet Russia inflicted a man made famine on Ukraine that killed millions. Today we are trying to wipe the country off the map. The only difference is the USA is on our side now.

Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.

I already have a counterproposal: Russia pulls forces/proxies out of Ukraine—all of it—and removes offensive weapons from regions bordering Ukraine. Pays for all war damage—and reconstruction. All Russians engaged in war crimes stand trial. And Ukraine can join any alliance it damn well pleases.

Trump is so weak he’s letting Putin push him around, and cutting Ukraine out of its own future. This “deal” hands Moscow everything it wants. That’s not peace. It’s Trump surrendering to Putin. Pathetic. apnews.com/article/russ...

It’s not a “peace proposal”. It’s an aggressor’s charter, with the US facilitating the demands of the invader.

The Guardian points out that the document Trump is forcing Ukraine to sign was highly likely to have been written in Russian by a Russian. Then translated in a way not natural for a native English speaker. Agent Orange is literally on the verge of doing Putin's work and killing a free nation.

In honour of today's Feast Day of #SaintBarbara - the patron saint of military engineers and artillerymen - please enjoy this clip, in which a British sapper dynamites a building on Spitsbergen in August 1941. 🧨💥 Film: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

I’d be very surprised if this leads to anything at all. Latest effort by Witkoff to bounce administration to bounce Ukraine into a deal they won’t accept.

If there is a negotiated deal here somewhere - and I don't think there is - it almost certainly would take the form of land-for-security: Ukraine gets an army and EU membership in exchange for giving up the Donbass to Russia. But 'land for fuck you, that's what' is not a deal and has never been.

What security concerns. Russia illegally invaded a sovereign nation, it occupied parts of a sovereign nation. Tankies scream NATO but conveniently ignore how Ukraine was not in NATO and not likely to be. There are no security concerns, just Russian imperialist aggression.

As NATO is so aggressive, we have moved our border guards from where NATO *is* on our Estonian border, and sent them to die in Ukraine, where NATO *is not*

Basically, just because battleships weren't fighting doesn't mean they weren't achieving the purpose of building them. And sure, eventually they came up against a new technology that made them obsolete - but so did the spear.

We always thought this was just a sock...

if you are named after a Bond baddie, maybe refrain from doing Bond baddie stuff

I've had two articles out in The Naval Review recently: www.naval-review.com/news-views/a...

Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November (Thursday!), preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...

I reflect on this grimly: if we are lucky, RFK Jr. will be the cabinet secretary that kills the most Americans by his malice, whereas if we are unlucky, it will be Hegseth who does it by his incompetence.

Sultana’s comments are so offensive on so many levels. You can’t “both sides” Putin & Zelenskiy. You can’t speak over the voices of Ukrainian workers who are on the frontlines fighting for democracy & workers rights. It is Putin and his acolytes who benefit from this war.

Russia has no plans to invade: Moldova.. Ok. But not Georgia Ok but not Ukraine. Ok, Just Crimea Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia Ok, all of Ukraine But not NATO…

Notice that he expected, as a constitutional monarch, that the legislature would need to approve his war-making.

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things: 1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good 2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

"Almost half of everything AI assistants tell you is wrong" and "Oxford university gives AI assistants to all its students" are two headlines we are forced to accept as coexisting in this appalling timeline.

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Did a new one

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Hey, hey guys! Guys! They reinvented the textbook! And the library! Just amazing to see someone tell on themselves so clearly in public that they do not really know what teaching...is?

“If Americans had a more clear-eyed view of Putin, they would see a dictator who’s bet everything on a failed invasion, a country losing its sphere of influence, and an economy…cooling. A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility.”

Interested in the intersection between seapower, climate change, and imperialism? You may enjoy my new article written with Dr. Rob Cullum. Open access in @cspjournal.bsky.social it’s called Oceans Rise, Empires Fall? Reframing Seapower for a Warming World. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It'd be remiss of me not to wish the US navy a very happy birthday, of course - and unlike virtually everybody else I'm going to include a picture of a genuine American warship to do so...

The grocery industry would be much more profitable if only it didn’t have to pay farmers for supplies