Sounds like someone hasn’t paid any attention to research on genAI use, cognition, and deskilling.

It was all too foreseeable. And what is also foreseeable is that Starmer will fail to correct course, because he simply doesn't understand - doesn't want to understand, in fact - why he is failing.

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So, what's the reason Google suddenly nuked the ability to do news searches across multiple languages and countries (and why is there no option to bypass this in the first place)? It used to be one cumbersome click away. Now it's in the profile settings, four pages away. It's unusable.

"Once immigration is fixed" is a very revealing phrase. It shows what a lot of Labour MPs (and the government) think of us. We are a problem to be solved, not members of the community like everyone else. And our lives must be made harder to satisfy some mythical Red Wall voters.

Et en français: dokdoc.eu/fr/2026/04/2... Mon dernier texte pour dokdoc.eu explique les sources des déchirements au sujet du SCAF et comment le projet pourrait être restructuré pour diminuer les frictions. @dgap.org

How do you solve a problem like FCAS? Für Dokdoc.eu schreibe ich zu den Grunden der Streit über das NGF und wie man das Projekt restrukturieren könnte. Auf deutsch: dokdoc.eu/2026/04/23/e... @dgap.org

I stand by my guess that there will likely be a common jet: if Germany were that convinced that the NGF were dead, they'd have killed it already.

Double the bomber fleet, collapse the stockpiles of long-range munitions. Make it make sense.

"Il faut ramener l'action climatique dans la réalité des gens." - Soraya Martinez Ferrada www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

I'm not going to provide details, so don't ask. Nevertheless: No, it is not OK to have one hallucinated cite. No, you can't delete that and expect me to take the rest of your work seriously. No, absolutely not. It should never ever happen.

This keeps confusing me: the current FCAS dispute is approaching a year. Every signal is that *nothing* has moved since then. Presumably, for TEN DAYS to make a difference, the mediators must feel they're near an agreement? What can realistically be achieved in 10 days? www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case. I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.

"À Ensemble Montréal, l'action climatique on va la faire en char, ça va aller plus vite"

Merz wants to reach a decision on FCAS to have it out of the way before the next EU meeting at the end of the week. No, this is not news from last December. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

I choose to believe this is what is meant by “Quantum IR”.

Soupir.

Si la Mairesse veut "ramener l'action climatique dans la réalité des gens", il y a un endroit tout indiqué pour commencer: le transport. Et un deuxième: l'aménagement urbain. Et dans les deux cas, elle fait tout le contraire. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

Further problem: the UK, like many other Western states, is now forced to simultaneously invest to fill massive gaps in the present AND invest in future capabilities. And it can't afford it but won't admit it, hence vague techno-utopian 'AI+drones will solve it' speak.

And we thank the EU for this.

We used to joke in Europe that the American OODA loop is Observe, Overreact, Destroy, Apologise but I think it might now be Overcompensate, Obfuscate, Denigrate, Annihilate

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

Look, if you think your ally may do wildly illegal stuff some of the time he uses your bases, in the course of all the other things for which he uses your bases…you have a duty to cut it all off. Anything else is just semantics.

I wonder how much European capitals have considered what their response would be if the US uses nuclear weapons in Iran this week.

I also have a third (also unoriginal) thought, which is that you can quite easily cloak a strategy of reprisal, punishment & scorched earth ("back to the stone age") as a collection of - mostly - individually justifiable and lawful targets. bsky.app/profile/shas...

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The killingly apposite Vietnam analogy, drawn by @rogermcshane.bsky.social. "Some around the Pentagon have reportedly begun calling [Hegseth] 'Dumb McNamara'"

You cannot be pro-green energy and be anti-mining. The energy transition requires a lot of mining for raw materials to build and maintain things like wind farms, solar panels, and batteries.

Cette décision du gouvernement canadien est honteuse. Des pressions ont visiblement été exercées, on doit dénoncer haut et fort cette censure. Hâte de voir si nos héros de la liberté d'expression vont lever le ton même si ça n'implique pas un humoriste douteux.

There are times I see some faculty member proudly offloading their job to AI and I really resent that these are the people who got jobs when so many of us didn’t.

This is great. I agree, Lindsay's & Suchman's work has been crucial. Almost everything I've written since 2018 tries to explore why friction is fundamental for (moral) judgement in warfare. This move toward workflow efficiency for targeting was quite foreseeable trivent-publishing.eu/img/cms/4-%2...

"I'm asking myself: what am I observing?" Leave it to the Belgian Defence Minister to summarize the state of FCAS. Via @euractiv.com (www.euractiv.com/news/belgium...)

Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6...

The Iranian military is 100% destroyed, with the small caveat of drone attack, minelaying, and missile launching capabilities. Oh and the Iranian military is 100% destroyed, which means the US will continue "bombing the hell out of the shoreline" and "continually shooting Iranian boats and ships".

Crap, does that mean we’re the chorus? On the good side, that means we’re right. On the absolutely terrible side, we’re right.

Two weeks in and I'm still correct

Academics everywhere: Grammarly is probably the only acceptable AI writing assistance tool. Our policies should have a Grammarly exception. Grammarly: how about we take that good reputation and burn it to the ground?

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4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

I know I’m new to Berlin politics, but I find it quite astonishing to see politicians adopt maximalist pro-car stances when the air quality map not infrequently looks like this.

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Between Keir Starmer (who, as @stephenkb.bsky.social keeps pointing out, evidently hates politics) and Mark Carney (who clearly thinks politics is beneath him), I yearn for a politician who actually takes his job seriously. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...

Again, this is stating the obvious, but we've gone from 'the war will force Iran to negotiate better' to "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" within a week.

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So the article says ”Israel’s goal is a systematic degradation of the Iranian regime and its military sites.” 1- Is that also the US’ goal, or just Israel’s? 2- Is degradation the end or means to an end? 3- Is that just a temporary situation then that will be repeated to maintain the ”degradation”?

As is their practice in air campaigns, CENTCOM is counting sorties, tonnage, strikes. Which says nothing about what they’re actually doing and whether that is achieving objectives. In the total absence of war aims determined from above, what do these achieve?

Carney created Schrodinger's speech. It can be considered to be simultaneously about being principled and pragmatic, but you won't know which one until a major international event occurs.

Canada doesn’t have a position on the Iran strikes, it has a superposition.

Une chronique particulièrement abjecte, à tous les niveaux. www.lapresse.ca/internationa...