Unpopular opinion : on n'est pas obligé de prendre au sérieux n'importe quel théorie du complot issue de r/UFO simplement parce que la Maison Blanche en parle.

"For years, Anthropic’s CEO has kept copies of Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb on the company’s coffee tables (...). His thesis was that the scientists who built the most transformative weapon in history also failed to control how it would be used." warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/...

Imaginez un instant, si Lionel Jospin (RIP) n’avait pas inversé les calendriers électoraux lors du passage au quinquennat en 2000, on aurait les législatives AVANT les présidentielles, on parlerait de programmes, et on ne subirait pas en permanence ces 50 nuances de bonapartisme

Every day, the future becomes shorter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rima Hassan et «la drogue» : fiasco médiatique, apothéose du journalisme policier 👇

Show me the world is worried about US nuclear sole authority without saying the world is worried about US nuclear sole authority.

After Trump's threat that a "whole civilization will die tonight," I asked the White House about concerns Trump is considering using nuclear weapons. They directed me to Trump's post. Their follow-up stated: "Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do."

Shameful

Même problème en suédois, où l’on dit "i morgon bitti" :(

I know there is more to it in there, but I can’t get over the "Command of the reload" bit.

C’est légalement vrai. Après, c’est un secret de polichinelle que c’est largement pratiqué plus ou moins ouvertement et brutalement, plutôt chez les cadres, et je ne me rappelle pas que le gouvernement ait jamais émis la moindre opinion à ce sujet. Notamment dans les mairies RN adeptes du genre.

uh, it's a little more expensive than I expected

Denmark and allies were flying in blood products and preparing for blowing up the airstrips as Trump threatened Greenland in January. Surprising no-one the 'exercise' Arctic Endurance was in fact an active operation, planned since 2025 with France, Germany and Nordics (+UK?).

Qui était #QuentinDeranque, à qui l’Assemblée nationale a rendu hommage ? @mediapart.fr a retrouvé son compte sur X. Racisme, antisémitisme, apologie du nazisme. «Moi je soutiens Adolf». Révélations @alexandreberteau.bsky.social et @turcanmarie.bsky.social 👇 www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

On the value of going back to the classical foundations of our concepts: sometimes, they are very well written. Such is the case with Laing’s The Divided Self - "within ourselves there can only be our footprints".

"LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand." Interesting take! It works with a lot of airport literature too, I guess.

A remarkable piece outlining a realistic vision for the defense of Europe which could actually be sustainable, and would not rely on wishful thinking about the inexhaustible magic of extended nuclear deterrence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Welp: “We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.” arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800

What were the 'Wizards of Armageddon' good for? 🧙 Critiques of nuclear deterrence have mocked the "medieval wizardry" involved in their "esoteric body of learning" who would ultimately have amounted to little policy influence. My latest article argues differently. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

I have a new paper out! I will post a thread about it later, but here is a link to the open-access. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

À noter que ce n’est pas l’IA, mais bien des entreprises identifiables et redevables qui ont commis ce vol.

Currently reading this. It’s nice. Interesting to see how actors navigating the constraints of the nuclear age invariably lead to changes in domestic structure.

A few thoughts on possible US-Iran conflict (1/11):

Absolument fan de cette histoire. www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers...

Je lis Les Deux Mégots, sur l’affaire Alessandri et, soyons honnête, c’est une accumulation de dingueries, mais celle-ci frappe assez fort.

A big issue in current arguments in favor of a European extended nuclear deterrence is the lack of a theory of extending deterrence, with associated mechanisms explaining how, say, spoken commitments to an ally results in the production of security.

Il y en a quelques uns qui se préparent à marmonner en regardant leur pompe sur les bancs de la 17e chambre du TJ de Paris.🤞

[Numéro 139-140] La menace en masses. La guerre « moderne », la cohésion sociale et le déploiement d’une surveillance à mobile sécuritaire (États-Unis, années 1910-1930), par Alexandre Rios-Bordes A lire sur CAIRN : shs.cairn.info/revue-cultur...

Un article pour celles et ceux intéressés par le développement du renseignement policier en France

Je suis ravi d'être cité dans cet article de La Croix. J'y défends l'idée que nous ne sommes pas à l'orée d'une possible course aux armements, mais plus probablement déjà en plein dedans. www.la-croix.com/internationa...

La revue Cultures & Conflits est sur Bluesky ! N'hésitez pas à nous suivre pour retrouver les derniers numéros publiés, ainsi que les publications anticipées. Et n'hésitez pas à nous soumettre vos articles à l'adresse [email protected] !

In Bed with the Right has an excellent episode on [something similar to] this. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

[Thread] The nuclear arms race is accelerating, with new START about to expire. Climate change is also accelerating, and so is environmental degradation. How do those two terrifying dynamics affect each other? Our recent article tackles this question. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.

This is incredibly stupid and dangerous for many reasons, one of which being that it debases the concept of love.

Texte très intéressant. Un des ressorts de la fascination pour ce livre dans les milieux intellectuels est clairement la promesse que ce récit offre : un monde dans lequel les intellectuels peuvent directement influencer le pouvoir. Il faut être un intellectuel pour croire ça.

Great piece by S. Fetter and S. Phillipe on UK targeting policies and their consequences. This point, on intent and harm, is essential for any debates on the legality and morality of nuclear deterrence choices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Flora Lewin's 1967 book on the Palomares accident is not great, but its last lines are very illuminating about the nature of the nuclear age:

It is a powerful speech. Not once does it mentions the environmental and climate crisis. It mentions a series of initiatives which are likely to accelerate this crisis.

If there is one book to read these days, I think this is the one.

Please stop.

Less than 9.

The problem isn't that Europeans don't understand that Trump's foreign policy is fundamentally kleptocratic, or neo-patrimonial, or neo-Royal, or whatever one wants to call it. The problem is that they don't have a lot of good options for how to respond.

'What just happened is entirely consistent with the spheres-of-influence approach that Putin has long advocated, and that Trump embraced in the latest National Security Strategy. The emerging order is one in which Putin, Xi, and Trump each get to do whatever they want in their respective zones'

Very sad to hear that Bill Burr at @NSArchive has passed away. Over the years his work of documenting nuclear history with targeted and relentless FOIA requests created The Nuclear Vault with invaluable collection of declassified documents and analysis. nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/nucl...

Average 60s strategy debate.

"En av delegaterna är en hög chef på Siemens Energy i Latinamerika och skrev för tre månader sedan på Linkedin om hur Siemens Energy vunnit ett viktigt kontrakt med två flytande olje- och gasplattformar ägda av den brasilianska oljegiganten Petrobras." Insane.