Today's actions make an already complex international order even more complex. It makes an unpredictable world, even more unpredictable. And jeopardizes international trust and stability in ways we can't yet grasp the extent of. As a result; our world is less safe.

There's zero legal basis for the US to use force against Venezuela, which is a sovereign state. It's as much illegal aggression as Russia invading Ukraine, and unconstitutional violation of war powers as well.

Protesters have now started to storm government buildings in Iran. aje.io/77do6o

Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)

For tredje dag kører en ny omgang protester i Iran og på tværs af landet. Denne gang med et udgangspunkt i de økonomiske forhold. Landet har været igennem adskillige protestbevægelser de sidste mange år. Hvad bliver resultatet af denne?

A fascinating case of "what variable have you actually accidentally measured?"

So D&D is medieval (kinda sorta) in its clothing and technology, with castles and knights and things you might find in medieval *literature* like wizards and dragons, but it has a lot of elements of the western in how it thinks about "civilisation" and "wildness" and whatnot.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

📢 New article 👤 Sverke Runde Saxegaard @sverke.bsky.social 👉 Careful what you promise: Executive constraints and conflict recurrence 📗 Open Access in Journal of Peace Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...

There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you. Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games: "There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"

Trump reportedly sent "stern private message" to Netanyahu stressing that killing of top Hamas commander over the weekend was a violation of the ceasefire agreement brokered by Trump. But if the scolding is not done in public, it's as if it didn't happen. www.axios.com/2025/12/15/i...

Folk som er uenige, men som gir hverandre tid til å resonnere og faktisk prøver å forstå hverandre? I 2025? Sjølpolarisering er et av de kuleste medie-prosjektene for tiden. Spesielt god episode om striden rundt årets nobelpris syns jeg.

Is it really *that* obvious when something is AI written? People seem super confident they can spot it, but the avg LinkedIn post in the era B.GPT. (RIP) was exactly like it: triplets, em dashes, “not X but Y” — (I swear I wrote this!) — now everything just sounds more like LinkedIn. Even LinkedIn.

I'm sorry but how on Earth could they not at this point?

Don't miss Sean's Lee's piece Center and Periphery in a post-Assad Syria in POMEPS Studies 57: Syria After Assad. pomeps.org/center-and-p...

Did Leopold II write this speech?

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

📢Our November issue is now out! 📜30 Research Articles on women in conflict, the climate-conflict nexus, support for rebels, sanctions and more 🗒️1 Research Note on surveying in war zones 📊4 Special Data Features on UNSC draft resolutions and more Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/JPR/curr...

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excited to share this article on the relationship between formal executive constraints and conflict recurrence!

Someone ought to remind the new leader of Hamas that Chechen resistance ended with Chechnya being destroyed and subjugated, ex-rebels becoming Putin's henchmen and Chechen soldiers fighting for Russia. The case for minimal historical literacy has never been stronger www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/w...

If you want something to distract you from all the horribleness happening [gestures everywhere wildly], might you consider briefly losing yourself in the wonderful world of Irving Finkel? www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...

The ability to challenge flawed elections in independent courts can be crucial for democratization Spoiler: It can also be used by ruling parties to consolidate control of the legislature New article w/ @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

Det som overrasker meg aller mest med Norgespris er hvem som står bak det. At de såkalte sosialdemokratene i Ap og sosialistene i SV, ja selv kommunistene i Rødt, går for en omvendt Robin Hood-politikk der de som har og forbruker aller mest også skal få aller mest. De som har minst, skal få minst.

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

1. This History Thread is about the military history of the Karen people of Burma (Myanmar.) Karen people have fought one of the longest-running resistance wars, spanning decades & have made recent gains vs Myanmar coup regime. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Pressen: Ååå, alle disse fæle alternativ-mediene og podkasterne som opptrer som mikrofonstativ og propaganda-formidlere for diktaturer! Også pressen: Fronter en ett minutts video m enellerannen tilfeldig norsking som har vært i Nord-Korea på denne måten, og uten et eneste kritisk spørsmål i videoen.

Yes. This response looks almost exactly like the response to the killing of Soleimani, and is clearly an attempt by Iran to Do Something™️ without necessarily causing escalation. Now we wait and see how the US reacts.

Buried in the article: "OpenAI is updating ChatGPT to show product recommendations, which means beauty advice could become sales pitches." Ahh, advertising. Twas always gonna end like this, wasn't it.

If Trump runs for a third term, Bill Clinton can also run for a third term and be the younger candidate of the two

Jeg husker jeg leste historiene om hvordan tyskere reiste Norge rundt på slutten av 30-tallet og kartla broer og veier samtidig som de kjøpte detaljerte kart over norske byer og bygder. Det forundret meg alltid hvor godtroende mange var i møte med totalitære makter. Vel, helt urelatert:

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

Peace is a very great good and war a terrible evil to be entered into at last resort. Given what we did to Libya, contrasting with North Korea, (and the unilateral cancelling of the first Iran deal for petty internal politics reasons) the Western world has defacto incentivised nuclear proliferation.

More research on the cognitive deficit of relying only on AI... you can't even remember the information you called up. That's how learning works! arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

📢 New book chapter 👥 Tora Berge Naterstad & Helge Blakkisrud 🔎 The Path to ‘Healthy Conservativism’: Tracing Drivers and Legitimation in the Development of Putin’s New ‘Ideology’ 📖 In Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin's Russia, from Edinburgh University Press 🔗 In comments

Fortunate Son! An anti-war song about rich kids dodging military service!

A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people familiar with the matter, as Beijing moves to secure control of the minerals it is wielding as a bargaining chip in its trade war with Washington. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation! You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!

Final deadline tomorrow!

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Har ukrainerne tatt krigen til Murmansk? Om dette stemmer, er det et en rimelig BFD

Begynner å bli en trend m mer Dagbladet-aktige overskrifter på nrk no, men dette r den aller dagbladetskete overskriften jeg har sett hittil, når man velger seg ut et sitat som forteller leseren ABSOLUTT INGENTING om saken som vi ikke allerede fikk m oss fra stikktittelen. www.nrk.no/norge/mener-...