"NATO has never been as strong as it is today"

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

When you spend hours on recreating your unit's skull-and-dagger logo, but fail to see that the dagger's upside down

Plus ça change 1988 aviation magazine asking whether the French Rafale fighter jet is 'better than its competitors' and discussing its export potential

'There's no hope' was the entire point of the original Threads (if you understood the film)

Gringos imitando

We Europeans pride ourselves on respecting the rule of law, but all of this evaporates when it comes to our treatment of migrants www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...

U.S. Brings Dozens of Foreign Military Chiefs to Washington www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

"We build the right guardrails, and we're super transparent about them" The guardrails:

Nothing to see here, just the IOC selling "Berlin 1936 Olympic Games" in their official shop Shirts are already sold out. I am sure no Nazis were among the buyers, none at all shop2.olympics.com/de/olympic-g...

Excited to announce that I will be leaving @sjms.bsky.social and embark on a new endeavour as Editor in Chief of "the new journal in different fields" Can't wait to get started!

Bundeswehr Chief Inspector Carsten Breuer set to become NATO Chair of the Military Committee in 2028. WELT reports that US pushed for early decision for Breuer to signal that it sees key German role for conventional defense of Europe as US reduces footprint.

Gen. Francis L. Donovan took command of SOUTHCOM yesterday and immediately ordered more extrajudicial killings. Their press release said it was done on *his* orders instead of crediting Hegseth or Trump. Remember that these killings are also about testing for compliance for worse to crimes to come.

The War on Drugs is Dead, Long Live the War on Seashells

One of the best books about former soldiers turning into mercenaries (while not about Colombia) yet remains to be translated into English

“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer

Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our team at Centre for Joint Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College is looking for new Assistant/Associate Professors candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Our team at Centre for Joint Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College is looking for new Assistant/Associate Professors candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

The Bolsonaro playbook: Create mistrust in the election process, wait for supporters to riot/attempt coup/do other batshit stuff after eventually losing the election

This one gets even better when you read the "Note: The New York Times has sued Perplexity for copyright infringement" on the bottom of the article

Thoughts and prayers for academic journals specialising in quantitative research

RoboCop 4 - Operation Robocrack Coming soon to a cinema near you!

Chronicle of an Electoral Fraud Foretold

Schrödinger's whistleblower complaint

"Es lässt sich kaum abstreiten, dass die AfD eines ihrer wichtigsten Ziele bereits erreicht hat: Ihre Ansichten sind zunehmend normalisiert, sie werden teils von demokratischen Parteien kopiert, und viele ihrer Gegner sind abgestumpft." www.zeit.de/politik/deut... von @christianbangel.bsky.social

Choque de Cultura Ambiente de arte é ambiente de droga

2 jobs in contemporary war and conflict and international security: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Arresting a dangerous delinquent

Signing up for a German event is always an adventure

New explainer from me, on understanding ICE as a paramilitary force, in more than one sense of the term 👇 theconversation.com/ice-not-only...

An insult to life itself: "the service now receives 60,000 AI tracks per day"

The far-right AfD are at 17% in Berlin. In *Berlin*.

"No shit." -Literally everyone

"So this part of Greater Manchester was going to have to do with someone who had lived there a while ago. Someone who had left his job at the University of Kent and retreated to London to be a media gobshite for GB News. Step forward, Matt Goodwin." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Using gen AI means sacrificing accuracy for convenience. Its purpose is to cut corners. If that’s how you roll, science has no need for you.

And the US Embassy now removed the flags nyheder.tv2.dk/live/samfund...

"BEST OF THE BEST"

I would also retreat into the forest if my book was given such a cover

Great books, dreadful covers Let's share your books with the biggest difference in quality of content and cover "art"

'Many people see humans as "choke point" that slows down AI'

When Argentina's military regime was murdering and kidnapping its citizens, it also hosted the World Cup Germany's skipper Berti Vogts said: "Argentina is a country where order prevails. I haven't seen a single political prisoner"

Acabei de ver que tem @placahistoria.bsky.social no Bluesky!

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

Ernst Fraenkel: In my book I invented the concept of the Maßnahmenstaat as a cautionary tale US Federal Goverment: At long last, we have created the Maßnahmenstaat from classic political science and law work The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship

Only in Santa Catarina... Brazilian man arrested for putting up a "Civil War Now" sticker with a swastika in his car

If you thought Trump had abandoned the insane idea of annexing 🇬🇱, think again! This is what the White House posted on SoMe overnight👇🏻 By the way, there are no penguins in 🇬🇱🙈