I just spent 1.5 days using Claude (free version) to work out how to move stuff from one machine to another. A great tool for semi-competent people to expand their horizons. But it told me to delete the wrong things multiple times! (I didn't.)
Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense
This struggle between the US department of war trying to force a private company to develop autonomous AI weapons and mass domestic surveillance seems quite important:
Let's hope the process will run as smoothly as the famous horses ๐๐ด #tรถlt
As usual: Every accusation sounds like a confession with Trump ...
I am delighted that my article โGlocalized norm interpretations: Explaining the emergence of Indiaโs national climate policy approachโ has been published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations @bjpir.bsky.social.
Plus Nordic and German speaking countries, for example. The hyper-violent approach is a U.S. specialty, with Dirty Harry becoming the norm (instead of Columbo?)... ๐ค
Thumbs up for STRONG TRADE.โข Less enthusiastic about the placement of that downward arrow ...
Commercial rates are slightly below average, I guess? ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta... page 9. But I don't know, probably these data centers make long term contracts?
Cheap and can be treated as low-carbon, which seems important for future claims about "green" computing power... (NB: this is a guess; I'm not involved)
Nuclear power + EU GDPR?
Considering how popular "degrowth" is among businesses, this analogy may be painfully accurate :/
CfP Special Issue: Glatteis, "ontological security" & Anthropozรคn
So, presumably she got a promotion and a nice vacation home in Qatar? A "delicate dance", indeed ... ๐ง www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
By far the best speech on what the present moment means for middle powers and what it means to stop โliving within a lieโ.
An inspiration for what Europeans should do.
Weltpolitikschmerz /หvษltหpษlษชหtiหkหสmษหts/ German, from Weltpolitik โworld politicsโ +Schmerz โpainโ: a feeling of melancholy and political world-weariness caused by witnessing unprecedented geopolitical stupidity and thinking about the unnecessary harm inflicted upon the world.
Everybody in the comments making the same joke ๐ฌ
Die Bundespolizei geht offenbar konsequenter gegen die
russische Schattenflotte vor. Nach Informationen von NDR, WDR
und SZ haben Bundespolizisten unlรคngst mehreren
russischen Schiffen die Fahrt durchs deutsche Kรผstenmeer verwehrt.
@bstrunz.bsky.social, @florianflade.bsky.social u.a.
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Another example: Are more researchers systematically drawing on non-English-language articles (in smaller journals), now that Google translate etc make that possible? I don't think so...
Daily Unique Likers from https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Something is happening on @bsky.app. For the first time *ever*, we're seeing durable, modest, realistic growth, and it couldn't be happening at a better time. Are we about to hit escape velocity?
๐จ Big news from Brussels: EU countries move to approve the EU-Mercosur trade deal, @euronews.com confirms.
Against: ๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐ฆ๐น๐ญ๐บ๐ฎ๐ช
Abstention: ๐ง๐ช
All other member states voted in favour.
Written procedure will conclude at 5 pm.
Agree. To me, this underscores that Trump et al. won't even refer to international law in cases where it would provide a useful fig leaf. Instead of the usual selective enforcement (or "organized hypocrisy"), we now get a complete rejection ...
Everyone longing for more innocent, apolitical fun on this platform -- this one's for you! ๐ข
BREAKING: UK and France sign formal declaration of intent to put boots on ground in Ukraine in event of peace deal with Russia.
They would "operate on Ukrainian soil, securing Ukraineโs skies and seas and building an armed forces fit for the future".
Strange headline. I don't think the op-ed argues in favor of Trump, though. "This" refers to "a better life".
"For Venezuelans, our situation will not be fixed by Mr. Maduroโs departure, let alone by a foreign occupying force." See www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
A $50m reward paired with death threats against hardliners seem like a pretty convincing set of incentives ...
Oof. Day 3 of 2026 *almost* makes me miss 2025 already.
The supposed "screenshot" itself looks like it has been generated with an "AI" tool: Nonsensical line breaks in words. "l" instead of "i". Repeated text. Etc.
There is something very revealing about the civilizational imaginary of being "besieged" by what amounts to the world. And to be clear, this is just a more obnoxious formulation of Borrell's "Europe is a garden. ... Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden."
