Don’t miss the Balochistan dimension here too.
07.03.2026 01:45
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Don’t miss the Balochistan dimension here too.
The thing is that Trump is fundamentally driven by the need to violate boundaries, so when you tell him "you can use force, as long as you don't call it war," he's gonna start calling it war as soon as he feels he can get away with it.
Ah yes, pursuing unconditional surrender through airpower alone. Always a winning combination of end and means.
I tell @bostonglobe.com that "it looks like the Trump administration deliberately uses diplomacy as a distraction and as a tool to keep people dangling while preparing for war."
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Unarmed military vessels are still lawful targets. And subs aren't always obligated to rescue. But did the US do ANYTHING? Coordinate with Sri Lanka?
Bigger issue is not legal but moral, and political: Trump is unnecessarily escalating an undeclared conflict while expecting Iran won't do the same.
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The Eastern Question through diplomatic eyes - The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions by Ozan Ozavci. Liston was the British Ambassador to Constantinople.
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This article reads like Daines doing damage control among R’s who are mad he boxed them out. “Seriously guys, that was just a coincidence, I was really trying to stop the Dems!”
From “NATO, close the sky over Ukraine” in 2022 - to “Ukraine, close the sky over Dubai” in 2026)
@davekarpf.bsky.social says much better what I was trying to get at in my thread:
amazing how money for teachers can't level the playing field, but money for big tech companies can
This headline is backward. What the article really shows is that in-person work is the ONLY thing safe from AI cheating. All the examples are of cheating outside of the classroom (except one stray mention of using smart glasses or watches, but even that's just a hypothetical).
These PoWs had dual UKR-HUN citizenship. Russia is playing an old game--the Ottoman Empire used to do this, releasing Hungarian PoWs to Joseph Rákóczi, pretender to the Transylvanian throne, in the 1730s, and Poles taken in Russian service to the (mostly unrecognized) Duchy of Warsaw in 1812.
Sending those text messages seems like way more planning than the current DoD leadership can manage, so I’m betting on Israel.
What’s happening in Lebanon may be an even worse humanitarian disaster than what’s happening in Iran.
Numbers the US should be ashamed of.
The problem I do foresee is that anyone who does regressions on datasets is going to start churning out papers, and admins are going to ask why archival, ethnographic, and interview-based work is so “unproductive.” But that’s not really new.
A restaurant billboard advertising “White Guy Burgers” with a caricature of Donald Trump. It also says “non-spicy so mild” and “it’s a beautiful burger.”
We have only ourselves to blame, fellow white guys. (Seen at a mall in Gurgaon, India.)
Trump’s foreign policy makes no sense until you understand he’s acting out of a bottomless need to transgress and dominate for its own sake, and then it all makes perfect sense. There’s no end goal; the means are the end.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Screenshot of the Opening to a review in Plekos on Byzantine epitomes that highlights the limitations of AI summaries
Love the epigraph choice for this review on Byzantine epitomes… 🤣🤣
There’s a weird assumption in academic AI discussions that we’re in the business of producing articles, and if a machine can produce APSRs faster, we’ll go broke. But…that’s not how the economics of higher ed works! Tuition and grants pay the bills, not selling articles. And as long as those exist…
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
For nuclear submarines, I’m pretty sure the answer is “never”
This kind of speech just lands differently after you bomb a school full of little girls
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This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?”
— Michael Givel, OU AAUP President
(The attack on Belgrano was much more legally justified!)
In addition to being a landmark in the history of submarine warfare, of course, this is also a horizontal escalation, extending hostilities beyond Iran. And it’s yet another illegal act of war, without congressional or UN authorization. I fear no one will like the short- and long-term consequences.
I think this is the first ship ever sunk in anger by a US nuclear sub, and only the second one by any SSN globally (the first being General Belgrano in 1982).
The post where Yascha Mounk had his AI write a political theory paper brings this home to me: ok, sure, maybe it sounds like a political theory paper and it cites the right dead white guys. But does any human being believe it’s TRUE? If not, why should i care? If so—I want the HUMAN to tell me why.