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#ForeignPolicy, #NatSec, IR, international development. Diplomat/FSO, dad, ex-Army SOF intel. Currently in 🇳🇱, previously 🇹🇷🇧🇷🇩🇯🇮🇶🇦🇫🇩🇪 Português/Français/Türkce. Repost =/= endorse. Views my own.
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To anyone thinking the CA National Guard is going to start massacring protestors, I want you to cast your memories back to the George Floyd BLM protests in DC. The Guard was deployed for that, too. And the insurrection. They never killed or even hurt anyone. But federal law enforcement did.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

God reportedly considering firing Pope-elect after chosen Cardinal revealed to have inadvertently added Catholic Today editor-in-chief to Conclave deliberations Signal group.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations, you’ve recreated a version of the 1959 book by Pat Frank “Alas, Babylon.”

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Rough year for self-evident truths

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

submitted 92 days ago • 33 comments

So the Mexico-US-Canada World Cup is going to be interesting, huh

submitted 110 days ago • 225 comments

Well, my Washington Post subscription just lapsed. What are some good alternatives to putting money in Bezos’ pocket?

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

When @propublica.org first published data and reporting on the tens of thousands of Native American human remains and artifacts held by museums and universities, compliance with the nation’s 30-year old repatriation law shot up. Today, we update the data to show where thise institutions stand now.

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

Every Day is Ethics Day. I know it's hard.

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Today is the Day of Remembrance. Eighty-three years ago today, FDR signed Executive Order 9066. It gave military authorities the power to create “military exclusion zones” from which any class of citizens could be removed.

submitted 122 days ago • 12 comments

TikTok is a weapon. www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 140 days ago • 309 comments

💯🇺🇦 Mark Rutte: "Let’s not be naive about Putin. One has only to look at what happened in Bucha. Therefore, if a peace agreement is reached, it must be sustainable. We must ensure that he never, ever conquers even one square kilometer of Ukraine again."

submitted 139 days ago • 29 comments

When Russia sends ballistic missiles with 500kg warheads into residential buildings full of sleeping families, understand that this is what they will gladly do to Warsaw, Berlin and any US city, and plan to do. The only thing now standing in their way is Ukraine. And Ukraine needs help, urgently.

submitted 140 days ago • 2 comments

Every dollar spent in aid saves around 15 dollars in deployments.

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submitted 144 days ago • 49 comments

Very accessible video guide to some basic, handy, free OSINT tools for visual/data investigation

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“I'm on @bsky.app far more than any other.”— @mcuban.bsky.social “I truly prefer a moderated platform. It makes for better, more nuanced engagement.” “Not getting beat up with hateful posts makes it a lot more inviting and rewarding to post. The signal to noise ratio is 100x better than X.”

submitted 146 days ago • 54 comments

Apropos of nothing, a reminder that homosocial reproduction is a thing which we understand well. sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/s...

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