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jeffwhyte.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University.
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But doctor, pagliacci is my research subject

Nice revolutionary subjectivity you got there. Shame if someone interpellated it

This seems to be what all the cool kids are doing, so I started my own substack. It's called The Brush Contact. It will cover (mostly) intelligence and covert action related matters based on things I read, listen to, or watch. We start with plausible deniability. substack.com/@lucatrenta/...

“Colonial expansion is a Russian psyop new to American politics”. never has a career pivot to one-note audience pandering rotted a brain more

What are the dangers in relying on automated hate speech detection to tackle discrimination online? Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and @discodiscourse.bsky.social look at digital racism, Twitter/X and counter-narratives against Islamophobia. Out now #OpenAccess buff.ly/4a90uwi

My legal letter is raising questions already answered by my legal letter

New article out co-authored w. @alexyates2000.bsky.social in @bjpir.bsky.social ‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people or how anti-populism is really good old demophobia 🧵 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For more on the neo-fusionism of libertarianism and bad science see this rundown on the latest conf of Brownstone Institute, founded in 2021 by Cathtrad ancap and longtime Mises Institute staffer Jeffrey Tucker www.importantcontext.news/p/who-is-spe...

The other 26% had not been through the peer review process

Hi, Tesla expert here! This is not funny, Tesla’s only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

Since I’ve had some new followers lately, I’m reposting this link to my (open access) book from OUP on the history of psychological war, and it’s geopolitical imaginations.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

It’s late 1934 and an American automobile magnate is supporting the German fascist party. It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...

Brilliant piece! The National Security State and the Tech City: Social Structures of Militarisation in Seattle's Long Cold War onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

British dumbass: Ok I’m going to give you the most softball interview of all time, I am only here to do propaganda for you, all you need to do is show a human side to billionaires Billionaire: *complete silence for 30 seconds, hisses, eyes turn jet black, speaks backwards in Sumerian*

He almost cried!

Universities can't afford: research, manageable classes sizes, conference funding, mental health support Universities can afford: expensive VCs/deputy VCs, change managers, external consultants, shiny new buildings, Research Excellence Framework, clunky virtual learning environments, annual fun run

I don’t think many in academia or contemporary art know this yet as so far it’s only been reported in The Link, the Concordia student news paper. Please share far and wide so the media picks up on this.

well rorty was right

Making more friends

Making new friends

New publication: @kristinmbakke.bsky.social JohnO and myself on attitudes in wartime Ukraine. theconversation.com/growing-numb...

New #OpenAccess book review -- Lisa Bhungalia's "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine" @stanfordpress.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/category/boo...

Newsletter: A subprime AI crisis is brewing. Most of the tech industry has bought into a technology sold at a discounted rate, heavily-subsidized by big tech. If it collapses, the cascade effect could savage both startups and public companies alike. wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

It really freaking sucks that random sports teams are more on the side of humanity than 99% of newspaper oped pages

Sign this petition for our student Joe. He was referred to the police by the university, and the police immediately dropped the investigation due to a complete lack of evidence.

University folks & pro-🇵🇸 pals: please sign & share this urgent petition in defence of a student targeted for peaceful protest Lancaster has singled out & victimised Joe: withholding his degree, reporting him to police & more He faces a disciplinary board on Monday #AcademicSky #Menasky #Abolition

Fire this man out of a cannon

Whom among us has not fired their gun reaching for their flashlight

I will never replace doom-scrolling with micro-learning

Wait, we've *been* getting the peace dividend?