Educators: what strategies do you use to encourage students to exercise their judgment even / especially when they're using AI? How might we encourage a healthy "hermeneutic of suspicion" (Ricoeur), when AI produces such polished answers with such a tone of confidence?

Nothing about this war was inevitable. Leaders make choices, even if they dress up their choices in the garb of inevitability. Beware anyone saying they "had no choice."

This war of choice matters because it's morally abhorrent and strategically self-defeating, not because it's politically detrimental to Trump. When the media focus on the midterms, it takes our eye off the ball.

Imagine a 28th Amendment creating a simple and clear and reasonable mechanism for confidence votes in government. #updatedchecksandbalances

A+ headline.

37 days later & they're still doing bomb, plead, fulminate, threaten, bomb, justify, rinse, repeat.

God gave him a gift & he used it on half-price blueberry waffles. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

The scholarly research on how authoritarians engage in top-down efforts to frame issues for the public is robust. Here's what I expect from Trump's address tonight. 1/x

Trump declares that talks are taking place, so he can face-save for a few days and so his cronies can short the market. "Iran, however, denied that talks were taking place." Sadly, Iran is more believable. #TACO

Not the main thing, but "Thank you for your attention to this matter" doesn't mean what he thinks it means.

Is it still tilting at windmills when it’s for fossil fuels?

Pretty please open the Strait is not a strategy.

Oscar well deserved

There is no Strait of Hormuz for solar or wind power.

So, you're saying that Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio didn't really think this one through.

Let's triple-down on fossil fuels.

"[U]nderstanding ISP practices and government oversight of them is essential to comprehending how information controls function in practice," writes Irene Poetranto of @citizenlab.ca, who wrote a path-breaking PhD on the topic.

My "h" key as ceased working and now as a rater carming Frenh accent.

The Hubris Cycle: First, deploy overwhelming force at whim. Then, declare it an exception or an abberation that we should forget. Wait a few beats and repeat as necessary.

Diana Fu, Rich Nielson, and I argue that ethnography and an ethnographic sensibility remain essential to understanding the political world, even (or maybe especially) in an era of digitization and AI. Think we're Luddites? Have a look bsky.app/profile/annu.... www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

On behalf of all under-5'6"-men, he is NOT one of us.

Pls don’t repost that racist meme. Suffocate the exposure. It doesn’t bring anyone any value.

It's authoritative if it's reliable, trustworthy, and accurate. Think experts. It's authoritarian if it's coerced and enforces strict obedience to those in power. Think strongmen. Please decide if you mean experts or strongmen before you make your selection. That is all.

I had the privilege of reviewing @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social Diana Kudaibergen's The Kazakh Spring. Anyone interested in authoritarianism and/or Central Asia must read this book.

Being a top officer in the Russian military is incredibly dangerous. Going forward, they should just leave these positions vacant. www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/e...

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“Plaintiffs have provided no metric by which to determine when lawful law enforcement becomes unlawful commandeering…” Oh come on. Not easily measured but plain as day.

Orwell cannot be repeated often enough:

To the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle: Blood on badges, lies on screens, Cages, tariffs, grift machines. Power sold and law undone, Cruelty played for laughs and fun. Strongmen kissed and wars adored, Truth despised, violence roared. Women mocked and racists fed Democracy quietly bled.

The fish rots from the head. Turf Miller, Noem, Trump, and the entire gang of fascist thugs.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Theater. Remove Homan, Noem, Miller, and Trump.

"[T]he cornerstone of this 'new law' consisted of the command 'Thou shalt kill,' not thy enemy but innocent people who were not even potentially dangerous, and not for any reason of necessity but, on the contrary, even against all military and other utilitarian considerations." --Hannah Arendt, 1968

today=(shovel+stretch+ibuprofen)x4

@seva.bsky.social brilliantly captures our moment. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

"I had somehow taken it for granted that we all still believe with Socrates that it is better to suffer than to do wrong. This belief turned out to be a mistake." --Hannah Arendt, 1968

Russian efforts in the global south.

Mark Carney is right: it's time to take down the signs.

In Russia, they call this adminresurs. In plain English, abuse of public office.

Happy new year is it over yet?

Yesterday at Davos, Canadian PM Mark Carney gave a speech. Today at Davos, the US-ian nihilist kleptocrat-in-chief gave a speech. One was principled, thoughtful, grounded, serious, forward-looking, realistic, and inspired. The other was a verbal vomit of threats, insults & fabrications.

Relax, people. SCOTUS will eventually rule on tariffs. Either before Trump blows up the transatlantic alliance, destroys NATO, invades a sovereign territory, and hands Putin everything he wants on a silver platter. Or after.

I am no expert, but states have rights. Right, SCOTUS?

This prez, in a nutshell.

A quickly changing world. U. Toronto and Harvard are apparently the Zhejiang U. of North America.

Good news I suppose, but a grotesque violation of international law is still a grotesque violation of international law--no matter how many or how few Americans want it. And maybe poll Greenlanders? www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/p...

OTD in 1994 trilateral agreement between Russia, Ukraine & USA was signed. "Ukraine commits to full disarmament, including strategic offensive weapons, in exchange for economic support & (this is the best part) security assurances from the USA & Russia". So you can trust us now

"Land acquisition?" Is that what we're calling this now? Why are you buying DJT's framing of the issue, @nytimes.com ? It would be a conquest, the destruction of an alliance, another instance of gunboat diplomacy, another blow to the rules-based order. Not a real estate deal.

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end